Symbols within Symbols

[mariebmk]

I'm trying to make dynamic buttons that I can create through code and change the text on them. Right now I just have a graphic with a dynamic text field on it, but i can't access the text field through the action script. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Beth

 

[oldnewbie]

Post your code!

 

[mariebmk]

Sadly there is not really code to post. What I have is a button created named button_1 (or something generic like that) and within it a dynamic text field named text_1.

I've just been trying to do something like
text_1.text = "some text"; but it can't seem to find it within the button. I just found out I should be getting flash professional any day here to develop on and I was thinking I could just make a custom component that will handle all of this. I will have to create, and set text on these buttons dynamically, so am I right in thinking a custom component will handle this for me? Thanks

Beth

 

[TheConeHead]

_root.Textfieldname.text = "Button Text"

 

[wangbar]

You can't access text properties within buttons in the same way as you can within movieclips - best thing to do is to use a movieclip as your button by adding an onRelease event to it. You'll then be able to change the textfield properties etc.