FLASH: Re: Question from something of a newbie

[Willem van den Goorbergh]

>Question from something of a newbie::

>I'm assuming that I can create an MC with it's own internal

>functionality

>(buttons, animations, etc.), and that I can get this MC to appear

>during a

>rollover state for a button on the main timeline... my question is:

>How,

>upon rollover, can I keep this MC up and visible while the user

>moves their

>cursor off of the button that calls up the MC to go and use the

>functionality in the MC?

>

>-Brian Matthews


For instance:

Have both the button and the mc loaded in the first frame of the main

time line. The mc parked (stopped in an empty frame).

Assign the following action to the button instance:

on (rollover)

  begin tell target ("/MCinstancename)

    go to and play ("the frame where something happens in the mc")

  end tell target

en on


et voila

(the above is just the general idea, not the right syntax!!)

Make sure the MC actually exists (is loaded) when the rollover happens

HTH

Willem


PS adding a subject to your message helps answering it ;-)


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