Re: [flasher] Re: Button animation on Mouse Down - Problem!

[Ofir A.]

hi mike


the main advantage of that way (external mc playing) is that you can play

all the mc . you cant do it if you place the animation in the down state. it

can be usefull if you have a menu with some parts moving - for example - on

rollover button A open a door and closes the 2 other doors, button B open B

and closes A and C - if you place the animations inside the buttons and you

run all over the buttons, the animtions would break. if you place them as

external mc's , you can tell target each movie to play smoothly.

if you have several buttons that acts that way, I think it will be better

(as you said) to use a general mc with different labels and have invisible

buttons (just hit state) that will detect when you rollover/rollout and

gotoAndPlay the right labels. the visibility is an option too, but it is

less convinient (at least I think so) .


hope i helped


ofir




----- Original Message -----

From: "Mike Kelly" <

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To: "flasher from chinwag" <

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Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:40 PM

Subject: [flasher] Re: Button animation on Mouse Down - Problem!



> Thanks Ofir.

> OK...  Sorry, I'm being a bit thick about this...  Just trying to find the

> most efficient way, and understand the Flash paradigm, which still appears

> hazy at times.  The mist is clearing now that I'm actually making things,

> and not just experimenting.

> So, presumably I have to put this external mc animation over my button,

then

> make it visible on mouseDown, and make my Mouse Over mc animation

invisible,

> so that they "swap"?  I've got quite a few buttons, do I just need to

stack

> all these alternating images on top of each other?

> Is there any advantage to using a button that way?  I could just use a mc

> animation, then detect mouse events and jump to a different part of its

> timeline on mouseDown.

> Is there no button setting which plays the whole mouseDown mc, even if the

> mouse button is released straight away?

> Best wishes,

> Mike

>