Re: FLASH: linked buttons

[dartfrogmedia]

Hi Anthony,


At 06:57 PM 7/3/99 -0700, you wrote:

>the button is a square. all 6 buttons are side by side on the stage. when  

>you click one and drag over the one that is right next to it, I want that

to be 

>the equivalent of the "drag over" function.

>

>the drag over function is when you click a button, drag out, then come back 

>over it right?


Drag over simply means that the mouse is depressed while you drag over the

button from outside its hit area. No need to start inside the button, that

would be "press." Note you can assign as many events to an action as you

like -- for instance you could have On (Press, Release, Drag Out, Drag

Over), Go to and Play (etc.).



>

>well, what i want is to click a button, drag out of it and OVER another 

>button and have it

>execute the same function as it would if you dragged over the original 

>button you clicked..


Then the action you would want is "On Drag Out."


If the condition you want to set up is a mouse event sequence -- 1)Press

button A;  2)Drag over button B -- then you need a movie clip where

pressing A sends the clip to a frame where B has a new instance with the

instance action "On Drag Over, do such-and-such." That way the user must

follow the sequence or else button B doesn't have the same action as it

would if they dragged from A to B.  I have a sound toggle that really works

like a toggle switch and uses this design; you must click on the toggle and

drag it to the other position. It's at http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/infokwik1.



>

>in other words, I want all the buttons to "be linked"...if i click one, its 

>like I clicked all of them...


Well now I'm confused -- if you want a click on any button to be like a

click on all of them, why not make them one button with one hit area? The

Up, Over, and Down states can look like an array of buttons, but they can

all be part of the same button if they have the same action.


I have a feeling there's something you're not telling me :-)


>

>Thanks in advance and have a great 4th of July.


You, too!


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