Re: FLASH: need to "test Movie" to see rollovers work?

[John Croteau]

Hi Chris,


> Thanks for the corrected file. One really can't ask for better assistance.

> The text bitmaps were there because I started doing this with

> HTML/Javascript and decided to experiment with Flash after. I had the

> bitmaps, so I used them figuring I'd replace them later.

> I got the rollovers to work after I fixed the buttons so they had no button

> symbols in them (as you and Cheri recommended), _and_ after I realized that

> I had to "test movie" in order for the rollovers to work. Is this normal?

> The buttons would not send me to the labeled frames on rollover, just on

> click, in the FLA. This seems odd, since on-click works in the FLA. Is this

> a quirk of my setup?

Yes, this is normal. I just don't even try to test butttons or Movie

Clips anymore in the editor, so I forgot the strange behaviour of

buttons in the editor. Just use test movie. Don't bother doing any real

testing except with test movie or by exporting the swf file.


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