Re: FLASH: Question...

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 11:48 AM 5/25/99 -0400, you wrote:

>I was wondering if someone could help me out. I am trying to create a 

>animated button that begins to animate when you rollover it, the tricky part 

>is that I want it to stop on the frame it was last on when the user rolls off 

>of it and then start from that frame when the user comes back to it. 


Make the movie clip external to the button, and give it a stop action in

whatever frame you want it to stop once it appears (could be frame 1).

Place it on the stage, make sure it's on its own layer and that it exists

the entire time in question, with no keyframes in that layer (encountering

keyframes will reset it to frame 1). Double-click it and under Definition

give it an instance name, let's call it "wow."


Double-click the button and go to Actions.  Give it these actions:


On Mouse Event (Rollover)

	Tell Target (target: wow)

		Play

	End Tell Target

End On


On Mouse Event (RollOut, Drag Out)

	Tell Target (target: wow)

		Stop

	End Tell Target

End On



that's all.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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