Re: FLASH: button question

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 12:43 PM 1/12/00 , you wrote:


>I have a quick button question:  Is there any way to get a button to stay 

>in its "rollover" state until it is released by an outside event?  In 

>other words, I want to treat the button as a movie clip--control which 

>frame it is in from outside (while at the same time using it as a button).


Use an invisible button. Make it control an external movie clip (which 

starts out in a blank, stopped frame) using TellTarget. Use TellTarget from 

outside to return the movie clip to the blank frame.

Marc Hoffman


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Production

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