RE: [flasher] Re: Telltarget and Load movie issue

[AndyA]

Hey CPU,


I'm not sure I exactly understand what your issue is, but it seems in this

posting that you are saying that you would like to use a button to load

various different movies without the button knowing which movie would come

next (or something like that). Given that I haven't really grasped your

issue, I'm not sure that my suggestion will help, but you never know...


Instead of using a button, use a movieclp. In the movieclip you create a

timeline with three frames and the graphic content you need. Then you can

include a dynamic text field for the button text called buttontext. On a

separate layer, insert an invisible button (one with only hit area defined

and nothing in the other three frames) which covers the surface of your

button graphic in the movieclip. Click on the invisible button and program

on (rollOver) {gotoAndStop (2)}, on (rollOut){gotoAndStop (1)}, on (press)

{gotoAndStop (3)}, where 1 is the graphic of your button Up, 2 is the

graphic of your button Over etc etc


The new button movieclip (let's call it buttonMC) is now targettable. This

gives you lots of options in terms of control. For example, you could set

the buttontext = filename, where filename is the name of the swf you want to

load. You can then program the invisible button with:


on (release) {


filename = buttonMC.buttontext

loadMovie (filename}

buttontext = filename2

}


This would load the movie, change the button text to display the name of the

next movie, so that when the button was next released it would load the next

one etc... you can add variables to the movieclip buttonMC and control it as

you like. The possibilities are nearly endless.


Why Macromedia doesn't allow for dynamic buttons that are addressable I

don't know... they are after all little movie clips, one should be able to

give them an instance name.


Regards


Andy