FLASH: Actionscript on Button not working

[Laura Haynes]

Hi there


I'm fairly new to ActionScripting - so please excuse me if this question is

silly.


I'm trying to create an online learning presentation. On my first screen, I

have a number of buttons which I want to jump to different frames - that was

simple. I just created an instance of the button and attached the following

script:

on (release) {

    gotoAndStop ("Scene 1", "less1");

}


So then I got fancier. In order to address the properties of the other

'buttons' on the front scene, I supposed that I would have to wrap them in

Movie Clips. This I did and attached the following code to the button above

which was now wrapped inside an MC; and all the other buttons were wrapped

in MCs as well - with instance names done.

on (release) {

    gotoAndStop ("Scene 1", "less1");

}

on (rollOver) {

    setProperty ("_root.701", _alpha, 40);

}

on (rollOut) {

    setProperty ("_root.701", _alpha, "100");

}

The roll actions worked, but now the release one did not.


So then I created another instance of the button, placed it on the main

timeline and attached the same code to it - to check if the fact that I had

wrapped it in an MC and was not targeting correct timeline. But still the

release action does not work - what am I doing wrong...


Cheers

Laura Haynes




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