It may be a lack of imagination on my part, but I can't imagine any situation where I would program a Button and not want the hitTestState to be the same as the overState. Why are these separate categories?
View 1 RepliesI'm making a map of the 50 US States using imported images.I'm using a piece of XML to import image paths into Loaders, and then using the Loaders to populate multiple movie clips (this works fine). I find myself now needing to import SWFs in the shape of each US State as a hitTestState for the 50 buttons. It's been suggested I use a seperate Class to define the new button states, but I'm afraid my programming skills haven't evolved far enough for me to understand how I can:
a. pass the XMLList information containing the SWF paths to a new class.
b. populate the hitTestState (s) of the 50 buttons with a for loop
Here is the function I've been using to populate the images into the individual buttons. I figured I would use this same function to generate or populate a button into which I could send the SWFs as hitTestState.[code]I've commented out the lines for my original attempt at adding the SWFs to the clips as hitStates.In a perfect world, I would like to just make 50 buttons, populate the up, over and hitStates of the buttons and not have to worry about performing hitTests on MovieClips and a variety of other problems I've already solved so far.
I've created some animated buttons (using movieclips of keyframe animation) and when the mouse goes over the button it starts a new animation sequence.now I would like to add some text when the mouse goes over the button but I tried adding the text I want to a new layer of the animation but obviously this just plays for the duration of the animation sequence or if I add another keyframe so it only shows for a short time then it will flash up each time the sequence loops around (I don't want the overstate sequence just to play once - I want it to keep going while the mouse is over the button)
View 7 Repliesi am trying to write some actionscript.........obviously!!
the effect i am looking for is like what is at <a href>http://www.hugeinc.com</href>
i have most of the code sorted, such as the _y movement of the transparent movie clip. i just need the actionscript that is added to the content mc that is located under the transparent moving movie clip.
I have programmatically created a simple button with a text field on top in a separate class extending a movie clip. The problem I am having is that the overState does not seem to be working and I don't know why. I have even tried removing the text field in hopes that would work, but it does not. The GameIntroduction class is called by another class which is the main class.
Here is my code for the class that calls the buttons:
ActionScript Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
public class GameIntroduction extends MovieClip {
private var introText:String = "";
[Code] .....
Code:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, checkKeys)
function checkKeys(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
if(event.keyCode == 48) {
[Code]....
When I press the '0' key it makes the movie play. When I click the actual button it also makes the movie play. But how do I make it so that when I type '0' the overstate of the button becomes activated? In this way keyboard detection and mouse_down would work together.