ANIMATED ACTIONS WITH BUTTONS 1

[t5pete]

hELP,
Im trying to make an animation pop up, like spinning text or something a little bit intersting upon rollover of a button. So, you roll over the button and a cool lil animation pops up
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
t5

 

[funkymonk]

Are you asking for help with the animation or help with how to get it to work on mouse over...? funkymonk B-)

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[t5pete]

Yes, the latter, Im trying to get an animation to play when i do a mouse over,do I need to make the animation from a tween to a movie clip first? Im having a hard time getting tweens (when saved as movie clips) to play.
thanks,
t5

 

[funkymonk]

Wouldn't know why your having a hard time getting movie clips to play. Oh well, this is how you target a movie clip to play from a button:

1) Once you have your movie clip, drag a copy of it onto the stage, make sure you have a stop(); action on the first frame of your movie clip and the frame where you want it to stop (tip: if you want it to loop continuously then put a goto action on the last frame and send it to frame 2 so you miss the stop action on the first frame). Select it and give it a name (Flash 5; symbol instance, Flash MX; properties)

2) Now drag your button to the stage, right click and choose actions. Enter this code into the actions window for your button:

on (rollOver) {
yourclip.gotoAndPlay (2);
}
on (rollOut) {
yourclip.gotoAndStop (1);
}

Now go to control/test movie (ctrl/enter) to test it.

Good luck.... funkymonk B-)

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[godishere]

run like he*l

 

[godishere]

run like he*l

 

[godishere]

run like he*l

 

[ironyx]

Thank you , I was trying to attach a text fade to a button and was scripting wrong. I knew it was something small...