FLASH: Re: ActionScript Navigation Question

[Paul Hagwood]

You ask: I have 8 different buttons on stage. When I

click one of them I want to activate an MC (which will

be the same for all 8 buttons!)


I say: Ok, so tell target which you copy and paste

into all the buttons, right? 



You ask: which is going to "walk" to a specific place

on stage. Now onClick I want this MC to move (it is

still invisible at that point) the the same 

location as the clicked button (thru actionScript) and

goTo Frame X where the MC becomes visible.


I say: Ok, so onClick you will Setproperty X and Y

position of MovieA to the x and y position of

movieclip"C" which contains the button you just

clicked on. SO the code would probably look something

like this:

On (Press)

      Set Property ("MovieA", X Position) =

GetProperty ( "", _x )

      Set Property ("MovieA", Y Position) =

GetProperty ( "", _y )

End On


Notice I left the target part of GetProperty blank,

that's because you are targeting the same movie your

button is in. Should work. Then to turn if visable,

just set visibility to TRUE.



You asked: Also I want the same MC to change color

(thru actionScript!) so it has the same color as the

clicked button (by the way

the starting visible frame of the MC is the exact same

as the button itself)


I say: As far as I know, it's not possible to change

the color of a movie clip through actionscript. If you

find a way then let me know. But you can always create

a key frame for the color you want everything to be

and then move the frame of that MC to the color frame.

Dig?



You Asked: AND last but not least there is a letter in

this MC which should change(thru actionScript (using

setVariable?)) depending on the button you click!!



That's the easy one. Just create a text field in your

movie and set the variable to on using the ABC button.

Then go to properties and name the thing. Name it

whatever you want, "Confused". 

Then just do something like this: 

Set Variable: "/MovieA:Confused" = "I'm clicked"


Let's break it down. The first part is your target

which I have named "MovieA" and the / says it's a

child of the main movie. "Confused" is the name of the

variable that is stored in MovieA. Then just type in

what you want it to say in the second field which if

you want it to be just text, then leave it as a String

Literal (abc) but if you want it to be the property of

another variable then check the = sign and type in the

name of the variable and make sure you target the

correct timeline for that variable. Confused? 

Sounds like you want to do a lot, just email me and

I'll try to help. Cool?





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Paul Hagwood

Multimedia Illustrator

http://www.mindspring.com/~hagwood2

http://www.satyrinteractive.com


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