Re: FLASH: toggling button?

[Chris Burke]

John,

thanks once again for your generous help. I will dive in again and put your

suggestions to work.


/Chris


>> I want to make a button that will toggle and stay at an 'on' state and then

>> an 'off' state when pressed again.

>Though you could make a toogle button without a MC it would be likely be

>very complicated.

>

>> The problem with making it a MC is that I will need to tell target it to

>> play and the main timeline will stop. Or can you have a MC play while the

>> main timeline is also playing? (I think there's something critical here

>> that I missed.)

>A Movie Clip has a timeline that moves indepdently of the main timeline.

>It must continue to exist to maintain it's memory.

>This answers your scene question if your MC toggle button must keep

>memory bettween scenes 1 and 2 then you should make it one scene.

>

>You probably should make it one scene anyway.

>While authoring add some extra frames between the Scenes and use Labels

>such as Scene2 to make things clear. Better yet give the "scenes" real

>names.

>Always use labels and remove the segment (scene) spacing frames when the

>movie is ready to go.


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