Re: FLASH: Newbie Button Question

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 10:39 AM 5/31/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Hello All

>

>I have a question I can't seem to find an answer to in the documentation or 

>samples. I have a button that changes on rollover. Once  clicked I want it to 

>stay on the rollover state, then change when another button is clicked. I see 

>it everywhere but can't seem to make it happen. I can only think to set up 

>another frame with a picture of the active button and set a go to onRelease 

>but that seems an inelegant solution. There's gotta be a better way.

>

>Frances Santiago


Hi Frances,


This involves learning 2 Flash methods: use of movie clips, and use of

TellTarget. If you can, do some learning about these, using the manual and

web-based tutorials. When you're comfortable with them, you will understand

the directions we can give you on achieving the effect you want. Put

concisely, you will need the buttons (which may be invisible but will have

hit areas) to control movie clips (which will look like the buttons you

want). This cannot be done just within the button editing window because,

as you have discovered, the button reverts to the UP state as soon as the

mouse leaves the hit area.



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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