Re: FLASH: Instanced movie clips and buttons

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:41 PM 2/29/00 , you wrote:

>the blue spheres in this movie are all instances of the same movie clip. I 

>want to display the title of a specific sphere whenever the user hovers 

>over that sphere, but i can't edit the sphere movie clip because that 

>would give all the spheres the same title. Does anyone on this list know 

>of a solution (apart from taking it all apart and making each sphere a 

>specific symbol)?


Select each sphere, one at a time, press F8, and make it a new symbol 

that's a button. The same sphere movie clip will now be embedded in each 

button, but you can add the title to the OVER frame in each one. Edit the 

HIT area in each one so that it's a solid fill the size of the sphere.


Marc Hoffman


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