Re: FLASH: can you have a mouseover play a movie clip?

[Marc Hoffman]

At 05:17 PM 3/16/99 -0500, you wrote:

>I already tried making each character animation a movie

>clip.  then I was going to attach an action to the movie clip that said:

>

>OnMouseOver

>Play

>On MouseOut

>Stop

>

>It won;t let me do this?  Is this possible?

>


hi Kristin.


MouseOver is reserved for buttons. Make sure each of your movie clips

starts out in an empty, stopped frame. Drag it onto the stage, preferably

in its own layer. Then:


1) Give each movie clip (MC) an instance name on the stage (assigned by

double-clicking the MC to get instance properties to come up);

2) Create a button to associate with the movie clip and place the button on

the stage.  The button can be invisible, but must have a hit area defined;

3) Double-click the button and assign this action:

	On MouseEventOver

		Tell Target

			target: /MCinstanceName

			Go to and Play next frame

		End Tell Target

	End On

	

	On Mouse Event RollOut

		TellTarget

			target: /MCinstanceName

			Go to and stop frame 1

		End TellTarget


TellTarget is one of the drop-down actions under button instance

properties>actions.  When you select it, you'll see a list of current MC

instance names, so you can just double-click the one you need and it will

be placed in the target window.


Be sure your movie clips exist in the timeline at any point when their

associated buttons might be rolled over. Best way to do this is to reserve

a layer for the MC and keep it present (that is, don't insert blank

keyframes after the MC).




Marc Hoffman

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