Re: FLASH: Animated mouseover button

[Michael Dunn]

Check with your manual since I'll probably be less than clear. Simply make a

movie clip which contains both the rollover and rollout animation with a stop

action in the first frame, in the frame where the animation finishes the

rollover and in the last frame. (If the entire clip is 10 frames 1-4 is the

opening animation 5 is fully-opened and 6-10 is closing, the stop actions go on

frames 1, 5 and 10.) Then drag this from the library to the stage where you want

it and give the instance a name (for example "animation"). Create a graphic for

your button, make its behavior a button. Write a script for it (or an instance

of it) that begins the tell target at frame 1 on mouse over and a begin tell

target that plays from frame 6 on mouse out. I don't have Flash with me to give

you the exact script, maybe it's in the manual or someone else can. Also,

someone sent me a script where it would play normally but if you moused out

before the animation finished it would play the rollout from the same spot (if

you rolled in and it would count frame 1.2.3.4.5 and wait for a rollout and then

play 6.7.8.9.10 this would work that if you only saw 1.2.3 it would skip to

8.9.10 on rollout, very nice. Maybe someone has something similar. All my

stuff's at home. Hope this is enough to get you started.


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From: Nicholas Frota <nicfrotaolimpo [dot] com [dot] br>

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Animated mouseover button

>Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2000, 9.12a

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>> An even more elegant (and more complex) option is to use a tell target. This

way

>> the animation will continue when you roll outside. This is something I keep

>> mentioning because it is a relatively simple effect but adds so much to the

>> feeling of the site. For instance, rollover and a word fades in roll out and

it

>> fades out as opposed to rollover it fades in, roll out and it suddenly

>> disappears.

>

> plz, say more about it... the site im doing right now

> http://www.lacca.com.br/redesign uses movieclip, and the animation simply cuts

when

> you move the mouse out... i want someting smoothier...

>

> could you plz explain me how to avoid it with telltarget?

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