Changing mouseOver design 1

[SteveHigh]

Hello

I am trying to change the design properties of a mouse over. I have completed half of it - changing the black text on a red background to a black text on a purple background.

I don't quite know how I did this, but I think I opened the 'Back to Main' symbol (it's a Movie Clip) on the stage and clicked on each of the 20 or so frames individually, and then clicking on a purple fill colour for each time I did this.

What I would now like to change is the red text which appears when the mouse goes over the symbol to my purple colour, but whatever I do I can't seem to get it to work.

I have uploaded a screen shot of my stage:

http://www11.brinkster.com/stevehigham/flashForum.html

Many thanks for any help.

Steve

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Can you find the text in one of the layers?

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[SteveHigh]

Hello Ken

I locate the symbol (symbol 35) in the library, right-click and go to Edit. The symbol appears on the stage and in the Actions panel I have:

on (rollOver) {gotoAndPlay(2)}
on (rollOut) {gotoAndPlay(13)}
on (release) {
_root.p=3;
_root.play();
}

Properties tells me I have a button (symbol 129) and its size and dimensions, but under colour it says 'None'.

I double-click on symbol 35, and where it says - along the top Scene 1 Symbol 35 - another symbol appears, symbol 129, a button (there is nothing here in the Actions panel). If I double-click on it again, the button disappears and I am back to symbol 35.

I have a screen shot here:

http://www11.brinkster.com/stevehigham/backtomain.html

I am not sure there is enough information here for you to make an assessment on but, as I say, I am happy with the Back to Main button in its 'Up' (normal) mode. It is just that I would like to change the text colour (from red to purple), once the mouse goes over it.

Where the button is now black text on a purple background, it used to be black text on a red background. I changed this by clicking on each individual frame in the Timeline then clicking the background colour tool set to purple. This did change the red background to purple - but did not change the 'mouseOver' design properties.

To answer your question, what happens is that when I click on each individual frame in the Timeline, I can see a sort of colourless shadow slowly move, frame-by-frame, across the length of the button.

I'm not sure if this helps much.

Thank you again for your time.

Steve

 

[kennethkawamoto]

When roll over, the play head moves to frame 2 of the "Symbol 35 copy" timeline (which is in your screen shot), then carries on to the frame 12, then stops. (It's hard to tell without looking at whole thing, but I presume that's the case.) So if you want to change the appearance of this "Symbol 35 copy" on roll over state, go to the frame 12. There's a key frame in Layer 2. What's in that key frame (either the frame property or the element in the frame itself) is what you want to change.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[SteveHigh]

Hello Ken

Many thanks for your reply.

That seemed to do the trick! I just clicked on frame 12 in layer 2, chose my colour to replace what I could see in the colour panel, and it worked.

Best regards

Steve