FLASH: animated button despair

[Larry & Paula Eisenstein]

Hi. This is my first post here but I am sure it looks and sounds like many 

previous despairing cries from the newbie ward. I can't get my animated

button to work. Am I tutorial challenged or just another real paper-real pencil 

Illustrator with Flasher wannabe delusions.


The linear animating has gone fine, but alas I am no man of actions.


I have a movie clip symbol with a rollover-rollout animation and an MC

symbol with an on-release animation and a finally a button symbol. I put

a graphic symbol of the first frame image from the rollover animation in

the button's Up keyframe and I placed the 2 MC's  in the over and down

keyframes respectively.


I tried putting stop actions on a separate timeline layer in the

rollover MC. A stop action in the first frame and  one in the frame of

the same clip where the rollout animation begins,  followed by a "goto

and stop at frame 1" action at the end of the clip. I tried the results

with and without these actions.


All my button does is jerk on rollover. With buttons and frame actions

enabled I can see the play arrow move when I rollover it in Test  Movie.

The onrelese clip plays only when I press the mouse button down but only

plays the complete clip if  I hold the button down.


I also tried programming the rollover, rollout and onrelease actions in

the instance of the completed button in a separate movie with just the

button in it in a keyframe.


Hanukah is over but I would take any generous Christmas offerings. Thank

you all in advance and Happy Holidays.


Larry Eisenstein

leisenstwwonline [dot] com

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