Re: FLASH: rollover oddity

[Charlene Reese]

On  1/12/99, Byron Canfield wrote:

>At 12:46 PM 1/12/99 -0800, you wrote:

>>On  1/12/99, Byron Canfield wrote:

>>>Charlene,

>>(but charlene wrote the ---> comments)


>

...If your concern is "muting", or making less

>visible, the other buttons on the stage, you can use that same over state

>to lay a black layer with an alpha setting over the top of everything

>except the text that explains the what clicking the button will do.

--->yes that was my concern, however, I don't want the black layer over the

background photo image.

so do you think I could copy all those other graphics and put them in the

rollover state? or would their individual alpha settings be lost.  I'm

using 2 different ones.  The red stuff is 35% and the purple needs to be 55%



>>--->I want the movie to change scenes and interact with the user as they

>>explore the home page -...

Do you know

>>of a way to make the rollover happen only after the mouse has stopped for a

>>full second or two?

>

>Instead of deploying the "explanation" graphics (but probably in addition

>to a "repeat" of the graphics in the Up state, perhaps with minor

>modification, say color) in the over state keyframe, which would appear

>immediately on mouseover, you could use a tell target for that instance of

>the button, which targets a movie clip with a delay built into it. The

>movie clip would then contain the explanation text.

--->oh gee would I really have to do all that?  And I'm not sure that would

work - lets say the viewer rolls over one of the buttons and keeps going to

another - would that first one still be triggered but just have a delay and

then go to the second one anyway?  I'm trying to prevent any sort of

triggering of the rollover if the mouse just keeps going.



>>--->since I am only using frame 1 in every scene would I really need to

>>create a label?

>>Its not like I would get it mixed up if I deleted some frames.  What would

>>the advantage be?

>

>Whether YOU would get mixed up is not the issue -- only you can judge that

>:). The problem is that sometimes Flash gets mixed up, and distinct labels

>are a way to prevent that.

--->OK will try it. was assuming that FLASH would not get mixed up if I didn't


>

>>But watching the flashing hit areas when I moused out showed me that what

>>happens when I mouse out is that the scene leaves the "stop" action and

>>plays the same scene again and then stops at the last frame where I have

>>the stop action.

>>I tried adding a "go to" ... "mouse out" but it doesn't work.  How do I do

>>that?

>

>I'm not sure I follow you (in fact, I'm nearly certain I don't).

--->Ok, so I don't think I'm mixed up but I'm very good at getting other

people mixed up aren't I?

scene 1 plays 6 frames and stops on6

a button triggers scene 2 which plays and stops on frame 6 of scene 2

rolling off of the button in scene two just returns to the beginning of

scene 2 and not to

the beginning of scene 1.


I think I'm trying to do a director play and play done but am lost in the

twilight zone.


-charlene


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Charlene Reese - S r T e U e D s I e O

Digital Graphic Design for Print, Multimedia and the Web

creesestudio [dot] net

   http://www.reesestudio.net

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