Re: FLASH: button down state

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:29 PM 3/26/00 , you wrote:


>Hi,

>

>I would be very grateful if you could help me out.

>I have searched all the flash sites I could find for this...so you are my

>last resort.

>

>I have a button that has a up over and down state.

>It works fine, however I want the down state to stay after I have clicked

>it.

>I want it to remain down until I click another button, where the process is

>repeated.

>

>Do you know how i do this?

>

>It is driving me crazy.


Chad,


The typical way this is done is by making an invisible button (it has a hit 

area but that's all) and putting a movie clip on top of it (which could be 

the button you started with, with its behavior changed to movie clip, and a 

stop action in each frame). The use TellTarget associated with the button 

and other buttons to change which frame the movie clip is displaying. You 

will need to read up on TellTarget if you don't already understand it, but 

it's essential for all advanced Flash work, so well worth learning.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash Animation and Digital Audio Production

Featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com



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