ActionScript 2.0 :: Nested Button / Moveclip Not Firing On(rollover)
Jan 11, 2011
I have made an entire website in AS2. Now suddenly the Client has decided that he wants to highlight multiple buttons, when the viewer rolls over any one of the buttons in a group. The buttons are all nested within a movieclip, which is within a separate .swf. This swf is loaded into a movieclip in the main file. I entered some code to under on(rollOver){} of the button but it never fired.
After some research I found that perhaps converting buttons into movie clips would solve it. There around 40 buttons in total, and 8 such files ...I decided to try with one first, and then also, the on(rollOver) did not work. I then found out that nested movieclips do not always call on(rollOver) and the only solution might be to convert to AS3. Now this is obviously a nearly impossible thing for me to do at this stage, as
1. I am not that experienced with AS3 and the website is quite extensive
2. I need to send out this website asap...
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Sep 11, 2011
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Jul 12, 2005
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[code]........
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