Professional :: Button Does Not Work Inside Movie Clip?
Oct 6, 2010
On the about page of my Flash website, I wanted 7 buttons to navigate to various labels. I just finished the first button. I made it while I was inside the about_mc. It worked well but would NOT navigate. I took the button OUT of the Movie clip and made a separate layer on the about page for buttons and pasted it there and it worked perfect. When I made it inside the mc, is there some different code I should have used other than the standard code for making a button navigate to a frame. I built an addeventlistener and a function. BUT they only worked when the button was "ON TOP" of the mc NOT when it was INSIDE the mc. I have a transition tween on the about_mc and therefore the button does not tween when it is on TOP of the mc only when it is inside the mc.
var aboutTween:Tween = new Tween(about_mc, "y", Elastic.easeOut, -200, 146, 3, true);
laborLaw1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, laborLaw1);
function laborLaw1(evtObj:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop("laborLaw1_fl"); }
I have a button instanced "howto_weblink_btn" which is located inside a MC instanced "HowTo_maininfo_mc". I would like to write a code allowing me to access this button from the main navigation menu. Here is what I come up with:
HowTo_maininfo_mc.howto_weblink_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_openJTV); function onClick_openJTV(event:MouseEvent) :void { HowTo_maininfo_mc.navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.ubloom.com/index.php?
Can anyone explain what are advantages/disadvantages to put the button inside the movie clip vs. to put a button instance directly on the main timeline? My final goal is to have plenty of animation going on inside the button stages.
I'm having trouble with buttons i placed inside the movie clip....whenever i place functions the rollover state of the button doesn't work anymore....i'm having trouble thinking where to place functions or methods.....i know programming in java and to be frank i'm having trouble with learning actionscript because the books i read don't say where to place the functions they write.Here's a link to my flash file [URL]
I have a very simple problem but I can't find the very simple solution to it. I've create an animated menu with animated movie clips inside to work as buttons. All the main buttons work perfectely but I've got just on button with a sub-menu. On this sub-menu I've placed an invisible hitarea button in order to place some gotoAndStop action. The thing is, it seems to me like this submenu hitarea are underneath something else (even though is the seccond layers right about the actions layers). I've placed a simple trace action whenever the mouse rolls over this area but I get nothing... Am I doing something really wrong? I'm losing all my hair already.
okay so what i cant figure out is...(still earning as3)i have these 2 buttons that are nested inside of movie clip........i havent added any code to em yet or nothing....ALL I LITERALLY did was, i have MC-a and went inside it, created 2 button symbols, and tested movie just to see how it'd look but when i rolled over the buttons they didnt work. they dont have roll over/out/press/hit states at all...it acts like its a regular graphic.i took the same buttons, copy/cut/paste on the main stage and work just fine.
how can i get a MC button that is inside another MC to carry out its functions
the mc button is using TweenMax for its roll-ON roll-Off effect and that works as normal when i test main movie
but the button itself dont function when pressed still mouse roll-On roll-Off effect works but not the movie clip button it this to do with it been nested inside another mc or is it the code am using below
web.onRelease = function(){ gotoAndStop,(49); }
web is just the name of the nested movie clip button i was saying
how do we refer the submenubutton which hasbeen masked inside a movie clip.
In my code ,
mainBtn3 is present inside "mm " movie clip . and on click of it I am able to move to another frame using below code . But, if there is a sub menu for the button , and if I am referring it as below [mm.btn3sub1] and trying to move to another frame . I am getting following error
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at sumiyatried12356_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Im able to link to a movieclip inside a movieclipUnfortunately one of the movieclips now are a scrollbar and scroll. Now the actionscript isnt working?cal.onPress = function() {gotoAndPlay(2);message1.contentMain.message.total = unit1;
I need to find a way to make a movie clip or button click and direct to a movie clip that pops up a window with data and has an x box to exit that movie clip. I also need that box WITH the x to be draggable together.
//Louisville,CO ------------------------------- louisville_btn.onPress = function () { louisville_box.gotoAndPlay(play);
i have a button inside a movie clip.I want the button, when i click it, to go to a web page in a new window.I have put my script on the top layer of the main timeline, in a layer called 'controls'
Here is the script:
Code:
function openPhotomore(yourEvent:MouseEvent):void { navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://anarkiuk.deviantart.com/gallery/#Photograph"),"_blank"); }; photomore_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openPhotomore);
I have given the button an instance name of 'photomore_btn', but it seems to be inside a tween aswell?When running the swf i get the error:
1120: Access of undefined property photomore_btn. How come it cant find the photomore_btn?
I have in the Scene 1, on layer 2, Frame 2 a movie clip named "Festival_conteudo_mc".And inside of this i have a buton ( close_btn ) that I would like to close this movie clip and go to the Scene 1 - to the main menu.On Scene 1 I have my menu buttons ( Festival and Contacts ).
The problem is that i dont know how to make them communicate, I've tryed _root, and As3 tells me it doesnt exist and its replace by Stage...I too new in this stuff. What happens when i put
close_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,menu) function menu(Event:MouseEvent):void { gotoAndStop("Scene 1", 1); }
It give Script no error, but when i Export the movie a error 1067 is reported.
i have this code in an as layer within a movie clip called pages
ss_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,reportCli ck); function reportClick (myevent:MouseEvent):void { // do something in response addChild(img_holder); removeChild(img_holder);
but the ss_btn im trying to access is within another movie clip called menu is there a way i can access the button
I made motion of movie clip iside it a button.the motion is like this:rom 1 to 10 then stopwhen you click the button it tells the movie the contiue from 10 to 20i attached this script to the button
I have a button called thumb01, and it is within a movieclip called allthumbs_mc. Thumb01 is also a movieclip with an image referenced into it. I've done it before where i have added code within the root actionscript, using the method of: allthumbs_mc.thumb01.onRelease = function() {}
But this time it is not working. here is the code. The actual function is a bit wacky i know, but i have tested it with other buttons on the root menu not within another movieclip. If you have any idea why this won't work, allthumbs_mc.thumb01.onRelease = function() {if (currentElement != 0) {currentElement = picArray.length - 28;//goes to a certain image in an array of referenced images if is not already current } myMCL.loadClip(picArray[currentElement],freewayimage_mc);//reloads the correct image into the blank movieclip}
I know the function works, that is not the problem so just ignore that. My problem is that the button will not do anything on release. As an interesting side note, i have attached a rollOver and rollOut event to thumb01 which works perfectly even though nothing will work onRelease.
I've created a frame by frame in the first layer of the timeline and in the second layer (above the first) another one with a keyframe in wich I've inserted another movieclip with some alpha tween (a kind of slideshow).
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The problem is that when i test/publish the project, the frame by frame layer playes but the slideshow does not play at all, unless i extend in the main timeline with the F6 shortcut. If anyone has an ideea what is wrong please help me. Ty.
I'm working on an AS2 website that uses some alpha gradient masks in its header's looping animation. If I put this animation on the main timeline my masks work perfectly [setMask()], but, because the header needs to be a movieclip, my masks don't work at all.
It doesn't matter whether I tick the cacheAsBitmap property in the properties panel or I set it to true with AS for both the mask and masked mc's. I even tried with both, ticking and AS at the same time, but as long as my masks are inside the header mc, they're not working.
How do I move / create a button that functions inside a movie clip?I have been creating a quasi-simple website following the tutorial provided by Lynda.com. Using I have created a functional site in which the buttons work so long as they are part of the main timeline. However if I take this functional button and drop it into a movie clip I've created, it ceases to function. Drag it back out of the movie clip and it starts working again. I am sure it's an action script coding problem on my end.[code]
I am building a click through presentation that has some small text in it. To maintain the design and allow for readability, I have added a zoom feature.Here is the structure of the movie,Stage - contains pages movie clip and forward/reverse click buttons for changing pagesThere is a button at the _root level that uses a tweener to scale the pages_mc up to 170%. When this is clicked, it allows the pages to be dragged around the screen so you can look at different sections. When you click the button again, it returns the pages back to their original size stops drag.My problem is, on the pages, there are buttons with links to external sites. Once startDrag has been invoked, I cannot touch the buttons inside the movie clip. Is there a way to make these buttons work?
I have one button its name a_btn. this button is inside one move clip name a_mc. this button is on first frame. so when write code for that:
function submit(event:MouseEvent):void { trace("hii") } a_mc.a_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, submit);
its working. but when i keep this button on 2nd frame or any where not in 1st frame inside that movie clip, then i get runtime error like: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.at NewFlashDocument_fla::MainTimeline/NewFlashDocument_fla::frame1(). how can i access that button on second frame...
I have a button (myButton_btn) which is nested inside a few movie clips. How do I access it from the main time line? Does this look like a proper code:
firstLevel_mc.secondLevel_mc.thirdLevel_mc.myButton_btn.addEventListen er(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_goHome); function onClick_goHome(event:MouseEvent): void { this.gotoAndPlay("homesequence"); }
Trying to target a button inside a mc in order to trigger a swf.the mc is called "nav_btns"the button is called "contact_btn" The swf has the same name as the listener in order to repeat the function with multiple swfs. my problem is, i'm getting an error of an Access of undefined property with my mcI geting an error:"1120: Access of undefined property nav_btns.
my code: var Xpos:Number = 461; var Ypos:Number = 294;
