Re: FLASH: Animated Buttons

[Jason_Schubring]

"I want one of those nifty little effects, that when you hold the pointer

over the button the name of that button pops up underneath. Either moving up

from outside the stage or fading in."


Hi Paul.


There are a lot of possible ways you can do this, depending on what you are

trying to accomplish.


If you want to mouseover a button and have something fade in as part of the

button, you can do this:


1. Make a button.  We will call it "button"  :-)

2. Make a movie clip named "buttonmc".  Place "button" in frame 1.  Give frame

one an action of "stop." In frame 2 start your button label fade (or whatever)

using tweens, etc. Label frame 2 "goplease"

3. Within "buttonmc,"  give "button" the following action:


On (Roll Over)

      Begin Tell Target ("/buttonmdemo")  <-- this assumes that "buttondemo" is

in the main timeline.

            Go to and Play (goplease)

      End Tell Target

End On


  4.  Place the "buttonmc" in your main scene and name the instance "buttondemo"


Get it?  This should work fine.  With this method, you can also have the buttons

seperate from the movie clip, and place the movie clip whereever you want; using

"Tell Target" in the different buttons to run different parts of the movie clip.

Just watch your tell target paths and instance names.  If this was too

confusing, email me. I can send you a small .fla.  Maybe I answered more than

you were asking for. :-)


Good luck.


J






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