Re: RE: RE: Interface/site test

[Colin Moock]

flashershocker [dot] com

,Internet writes:

>Thanks for looking at the page.


>How do you set the hit area of a button without affecting the

>transparency

>of the surrounding area? I had wondered about this.

>Tom


In a button, there are four frames: Up, Over, Down, Hit.

Currently, you use text in all of them. You need to change that so you

have the text as you want it to appear in Up, Over, and Down, but *not*

Hit.

In the "Hit" frame, draw a rectangle that covers the area that's

occupied by the text in your "Up" frame. Then fill the rectangle. The

"Hit" frame contents will be invisible when you export/test the movie

because the "Hit" frame is only used to define the area which activates

the button when mouse activity is detected. (When you are in the "Hit"

area with your mouse pointer, Flash displays the "Over" Frame of your

button...).


-Colin




>2 things:

>1) In netscape 3 on pc there is a bit of stray aftershock code. might

>want to look into the javascript detector.

>2) Set the hit areas on your city buttons using a rectangular solid

>shape instead of the text itself.  When you use text as the hit area,

>the buttons flicker on and off as you mouse over the blank spaces

>between the letters.


>Otherwise, neat job.


>-Colin


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