ActionScript 1/2 :: Menu Buttons Not Disappearing?
May 29, 2009
I have knowledge of HTML but this is my first flash project, and I think I'm way over my head. I followed a tutorial explaining how to make menu buttons and I realized that the actionscript for a drop down menu should work for what I'm trying to do. So I finally have everything the way I want it but I'm pretty sure I have a bit of wasted code in there. Now, my issue is when I play my flash and move my mouse really fast over the flash object sometimes two menu buttons appear. I'm sure it is because of the ._alpha > 0 code I'm using but I dont know another way around it. If you have any advice PLEASE share!! Here is a link to the swf file...http:[url]....
This is the code (for two buttons) I use to make something disappear when I RollOver another button:
calplate_btn.onRollOver = function () { if(scan_large._x > startX) { myTweenB.stop(); myTween2.stop(); scan_large.enabled = false scan_large._alpha = 0 scan_large._x = startX } if(scan_large._alpha > 0 ) { myTweenB.stop(); myTween2.stop(); scan_large.enabled = false scan_large._alpha = 0 scan_large._x = startX }[code].......
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package as3 {
import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;
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import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
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Its a bit difficult to explain so Ill add a link to the swf.[URL] The problem is: When going from one scene to another, and then back from that scene to the previous one, my movieclip containing my buttons disappears. (for example: from wat to nieuws and then from nieuws back to wat). Quiet bizarre, because when going from wat to wie to nieuws to wat and so on, the movieclip with buttons does not disappear.
The situation in short is as follows. I have 4 scenes and 4 buttons, every button linking to respectively another scene / page. The buttons all are in movieclips. I have 4 different movieclips all containing all buttons. For the nieuws page movieclip the nieuws-button in the movieclip gets switched of by ungrouping it and so on, and so on.On every scene I put the movieclip, with the correct button switched of, on top, with the swapDepths function. The other movieclips are made invisible by the _visible = false function.
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change = false;
}[code]....
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Jun 16, 2009
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I am attempting to make a flash website, and have 5 buttons on my menu. I made 5 pages in a movieclip called "content". I want to know how I can link those buttons to go to those pages (actionscript and where to put it).
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Aug 11, 2009
I'm having a bit of trouble getting a button in a hoover over drop down menu to link to another scene in the .swf movie. I just doing a basic drop down menu (example here: [URL] with a couple of buttons with in a movie clip, the movie clip being the "button" someone hoovers over. The buttons however are not going to the corrisponding scene I have them set up to. What's strange is that if I set in the buttons action panel to go to an url instead of a scene, in the .swf movie the button works when I click it...it wants to go the specificed url. Nothing happens when it's set to go to a scene.
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I am building a basic database website for my local community and everything is going fine until i try to add more script to control buttons on pages from the menu. The menu has 7 buttons which work, then on each of those pages is 6 more buttons. The first page works fine but when i add the code to the next page to control its buttons i get access of undefined prop. error and keeps playing through whole timeline. This is the code im using to control the buttons on pages from the menu.
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