FLASH: MC hammered...

[Brian]

I really need some help here, folks.


I do not have enough knowledge about programming in Flash to be able to read

any of the books I have and pull out of them exactly what I need to do, so I

�m hoping someone here will take the time to hold my hand through the

process of getting done what I need:


Basically I have a timeline, which consists of tick marks that represent

various personal and career milestones in my clients� life. What I need to

have happen is: when you roll over a tick mark I want to have an area above

or below the timeline appear with pertinent info about that particular

milestone, and while this area is visible I want to be able to roll off of

the tick mark into this info area and be able to click on one of two buttons

that are incorporated into this info area, one of which calls a URL and the

other sends the viewer to another Scene in the file.


Here�s what I have going so far:


Using an MC, I created a separate hidden button for one of the tick marks

that incorporates both where the pop up will appear on the stage and the

actual physical position of the tick mark and brought it into the MC, as

well as create buttons for each of the URL calls and Scene calls� I already

have the MC set up to pop up when I want and how, but I now have the problem

of what to do with the two call buttons I have: if I arrange the MC with the

two call buttons BELOW the layer that contains the hidden button, I can't

get them to operate because they are apparently blocked by the hidden

button; if I put the two call buttons in a layer ABOVE the hidden button,

once I roll off the hidden button area onto one of the two buttons (and

hence off of the hidden button area), the whole shebang disappears!


HELP!


Please assist!


Thank you!


-Brian Matthews




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