Re: FLASH: Button inside a movie clip

[Karin Christensen]

Hi Vince,

>

>I have a Movie Clip (HammerSwing) of a swinging hammer (I know, that

>damned hammer again).  Then I created a button (HammerButton) with

the

>up and over state being the still positions, and the down state being

>the Movie Clip of the swing.  So now, I have a button, containing a

>movie clip.  So far so good.  But I want to drag this button around

(so

>that it follows my cursor).  So I must make a movie clip with the

>button in the first frame (HammerControlClip).  Please, let me know

if

>any of this sounds out of sync so far.

>

A much more elegant way of doing this would be to put a button in your

movie clip.  This button would only have a hit state.  It will appear

light blue if you do not have button actions enabled.  You can then

assign actions to this button that will make your movie clip play any

way you want.  One reason this works better is because if you have an

on mouseover event, the clip will continue to play even if you roll

off.  Then you can drag this movie clip on to the stage and be able to

drag it around.  I downloaded a tutorial from someplace that explains

this.  I will try to figure out where I got it if you need to see how

it works.

Karin





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