Re: FLASH: buttons/symbols/instances/tell targets

[Marc Hoffman]

At 11:32 AM 3/25/99 -0600, you wrote:

>

>I am confused (what else is new<g>) as to when to edit, in order to 

>assign actions such as "start" and "stop", buttons...since flash allows 

>you to edit the symbols, themselves, as well as instances.


Actions work two ways:


1) When assigned in Frame Properties, the action will be carried out when

playback reaches the frame. This can occur in the main timeline or in the

timeline of a movie clip.


2) On Mouse Event (rollover, press[click], release, rollout, dragover,

dragout).  Mouse Event actions are assigned to the instance (on-stage

occurence) of a button.


Hence, Movie clips are generally the only symbol you place actions _in_;

other actions are assigned to the main timeline or to a button

(double-click the button on stage to bring up instance properties>actions).


Hope this helps. There are good tutorials that come with Flash and also on

the web. Please try them.



Marc Hoffman

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