Re: Flash 2 questions

[John Croteau]

Hi Charles ,


> 1) I noticed that "Action" doesn't do anything when you are working

> within a button.  I thought that, in theory, you should be able to

> change scenes on a rollover (without going to "hit") but placing the

> action in the "over" or even "down" states did nothing.  Is there any

> way to do this?

Actions in the Button editting window though present are non-functional.

The only button action in Flash2 is the down or click action which is

accessed from the main canvas by double clicking the button.


> I was trying to construct my web page so that when you rolled over one

> photo, the other 3 pictures that were not being rolled over

> disappeared.  This worked fine if the picture in question was in the top

> layer.  The picture in the second layer left two photos on the screen -

> the one in the third left three and the one in the fourth left four.

> Placing all of them in one layer didn't work either.  I figured if I

> could jump to another scene on a rollover I could make that photo the

> top row in the next scene.  Nothing worked so I just left them all on.

You need to create invisible buttons with the Up states of the four

buttons transparent.

Place the actual photos on a lower layer underneath the buttons.


In each of the Over/Down states of the buttons,

the area over that button is transparent but a screen is placed over

each of the other 3 buttons to hide the other photos.




> 2) The "clear frame" doesn't seem to work in the first frame of a scene

> or a button.  I kept having to copy and paste an empty frame in.  This

> was a pain.  Is there a way to do this?

Delete the object or objects in the frame this makes it a blank

keyframe.

If there are alot then lock the other layers and select all then delete.



> 3) What movie dimensions do you use for the web?  I noticed that

> changing dimensions only changed

> porportions of the overall size and it was difficult to figure out what

> was best. 

Use exact pixel size if using critical bitmaps.

Otherwise, use 100% scaling and create your movies in the aspect ratio

that match the HTML frame you will be inserting it into.



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