MC inside Button

[tomhughes]

I can get the Movie Clip to work properly if it is on the main timeline, but I can't get it to work inside a button.
Here is the code for the MC inside the button, and on the main timeline.Also why won't it show up in the debugger?



onClipEvent (load) {
if (_Level0.strVar0 == "&quot {
_Level0.strVar0 = 6;
}
x = _Level0.strVar0;
for (i=1; i<=x; i++) {
trace (_Level0[&quot;strVar&quot;+i]);
if (_Level0[&quot;strVar&quot;+i] == &quot;Facilities Design1&quot {
x = 1;
}
}
if (x == 1) {
this._alpha = 50;
trace (&quot;ALPHA = 50&quot;
} else {
trace (&quot;ALPHA = 0&quot;
this._alpha = 0;
}
}

 

[billwatson]

Sounds back to front to me Tom. Unsure why you have a movie clip inside a button. Surely it should be button inside a movieclip.

 

[tomhughes]

Bill - I couldn't get the buttons properties to work in a movie clip, but they will work when the MC is in the button.

 

[tomhughes]

The movie clip has to be on the top layer to get it to do what I want.

 

[billwatson]

if the movie clip only does what you want on main timeline then its just a path problem.
why not post the fla then i would have a much clearer idea of what you have been trying to do. or mail it to me hp_sauce46@yahoo.com

 

[billwatson]

Hi tom have the fla and now i am more confused than ever. I now suspect that what you want is to control the alpha of a button depending on the value of a variable. Is this correct?

 

[tomhughes]

YES