Re: FLASH: MC hammered...

[Brian]

> You can get information on how to do this trick somewhere in virtual-fx,

> it's just a similar trick of the fly over button.


I'll check on this. Thank you.

However, I now have a new problem: when I go to add an Action to the button

that I want to call another Scene in the file, the ability to select the

Scene is grayed out and unavailable.

What's up? Does this have something to do with all this being in an MC?

Damn, I hate being an artist and not a programmer, too...

:-(


-Brian Matthews


> 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!




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