Professional :: MovieClip Button Working But No Hand Icon
Jul 5, 2010
I am creating a somewhat elaborate (for me at least) navigation for my site. I have created a bunch of animated MC's to use as nav-buttons, and all that works great. The only issue is that when you mouse over the MC-buttons, the cursor stays as an arrow instead of turning into the little hand that always happens with links. The links work, but no little hand. Do I have to have a "hit area" defined in order to get the hand icon to popup or what?
I have a MC which I'm using as a button. It has an image and a text box.I've set it to button mode using:bioLink.buttonMode = true;When the mouse is over the MC it shows the hand icon when over the image, but not over the textbox. However, if the textbox is clicked, it still executes the button code. Is there a way to have the hand icon show when over the text as well?
I want to create a notification icon like the the red one in the bottom right-hand corner of Facebook. I tried using a ToolTipManager to create a tooltip but since Tooltips appear in their own layer in Flex and, as far as I am able to figure, cannot be anchored to any part of the page. When the user uses the browser's scrollbar, they move.
I am working on an older Flash project created in CS3 ActionScript 2.0 How can I make the pointer cursor change to the hand when hover over a list item?_root.slidePanel.myList'myList' is the list. I have traced out the contents of the List MC and it has a child MC called 'content_mc'. I assumed this was the object containing all of my list items but the only members of this MC I can see (when tracing them out) are 'setRGB' and 'searchKey'.
My button states aren't working right, and I'm pulling my hair out:The desired behavior is under the "Design... button--notice how when you mouseover the "Our Philosophy" link it turns blue? Why isn't this happening for the "What We Can Do For You" and "Our Process" buttons in the other movieclips?The document is structured as follows:
MovieClip 1: Design: Your Silent Salesperson ---Text ---Images
The ad on the bottom right of the screen (the one with lightning flashing) has an invisible button in its Flash file (CS5) linking to [URL]. This file is imported as SWF in Dreamweaver CS5.
The hyperlink works in Firefox, but not in Safari. Maybe it is just my computer.
I am having a problem where my buttons on main timeline are working fine. When I create a button within a movieclip layer (a page importeded from Photoshop as a movieclip) the button is not working once I leave. It doesn't show as a working button when I select Enable simple buttons, when I preview or publish as HTML. The thing is, it is a button, it has an instance name, is that weird blue color... and it works fine when I am double clicked into that movieclip layer. I also tried common library buttons and they work fine until I leave that layer as well, also tried it within other layers and creating a new file and doing it... all no success!
I would like to right align an icon on a button or tabbarbutton and keep the text left aligned in Flex 4.0 Spark. So far, I've come up with something like the following in my custom skin:
I adopted the tsunami effect that i've got from this link [URL] but the problem is how can i plug the title on each icon, showing up on an icon when i point on it (on rollOver)
In AS2 you could put a button under a movieclip and it would still work so you had to put a disabled button above it to stop it working. It seems that in AS3, a movie clip will disable button rollovers underneath it but I need it work!I've done a very basic test to make sure my movie clip isn't set to buttonMode=true or anything like that but it still happens.
I am trying to create a very basic concept for a program that it based around a WIMP style interface. I have created a few moving windows using movie clips and I now want to add a button inside these movieclips that would act as an exit button, but in theory just returning to the frame before these appear. The problem I am having is that anything I create inside the movie clip is not being recognised, as clicking on it just makes the program think you want to move the window. The code I have used in my actions layer to create the moving effect is[code]...
I have four movieclip buttons inside my swf file.I have to add function on each movieclip. I tried it is not working.example code swf_name.butn1_mvc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.Cli ck, functionname);
I made a few buttons for my .fla and all the states are working but the hit state. So just to see what the problem was I made a new button, which is only text at each stage, so for up i wrote up, down down etc, all the states work but hit, what gives??? hit is after someone clicks it it should be at the hit state correct?
I've developed a small portfolio website, and have created a "home" button, but I can't get it to program correctly. I've tried using the Action Script to Go To and Stop at Frame feature, but it doesn't work. I need the "Home" button, whenever pressed to take the viewer BACK to frame 10.
Is it possible to have the cursor change to a hand sybol when the user rolls over a certain movieclip without changing the movieclip to a button or using the following code?
play_select_mc.buttonMode = true;
The reason that I cant use these two methods is because I'm using the 'button' to allow the user to click on the swf in their browser to activate keyboard functions. Turning my mc into a button or using the above code does not activate these functions, the user still has to click on the swf. Clicking in an mc works fine, I just want the hand symbol.
I have a simple getURL button within a movieclip within another movieclip. Does anyone have any clue why this isn't working? The button is in the top layer of the child movieclip, and the child movieclip is in the top layer of the parent movieclip, so what am I missing here? I attached a simplified fla to show the issue. In the end, the main red box will be a country on a map and the popup box will contain info about the country and links to pictures and sites.
I was playing around last night trying to learn simple AS to make a movie clip act like a button. I wanted the button movie clip to reduce the alpha value of the other movie clip when you rollover the button and when you roll off the button the alpha of the movie clip goes back up. It works, but if you keep rolling over and out of the button movieclip sometimes the alpha gets stuck at a certain value for a bit, then does what its supposed to. I'm using onEnterFrame () to do the hitTest constantly.
Here's the SWF and FLA files for you to look through:
hitTest SWF hitTest FLA
Here's the AS code I used in the frame to do this:
I'm creating a project with a number of different sections. I've created a index menu with invisible buttons on that takes you to the different sections. This works fine. In each section I wonted a means to get back to this index, so created a index button that is present throughout each section. I've put the event handler in the actions layer on the same frame that the button instance is on (frame 15).
So I've just embedded a .swf file as a header to my blog and the home button, the logo, is not working.Everything is linked up correctly. When I test it in Flash, it brings up my blog. However, when I'm actually on the site, the button does nothing.
I have added a button from the Components Menu. When I rollover the button, it changes color slightly but I would also like the cursor to turn to the traditional hand. I have tried buttonMode = true and that doesn't seem to work.
I have the following code all seems to work ok, but the Hand Cursor does not display on roll over/hover to enable the viewer to see that its a link, please let me know what I am doing wrong(pleanty prob), first big thing I have doen in AS3. Also using CS4.
I have the following code in but still nothing: venueBtn.buttonMode=true; venueBtn.useHandCursor = true;
I'm working on some buttons that will act like normal buttons, but can't be highlighted using the TAB key. I can't stand that yellow border, and because I'm using so many masks, the TAB option would allow users to use buttons that aren't supposed to be there. So I've made a Movie Clip with an internal sort of hit area, and I'm trying to enable a Hand Cursor somehow. I've tried toying with Properties and such, playing with some scripts, and nothing yet. So far, if the Hand Cursor appears, TAB also works. I know I could just make a Movie Clip of the Hand Cursor and swap it in when the user rolls over the button. But I'd like to know if I could possibly avoid that.
I have a button which I use for sending a message. When the message text is empty, it should not be possible to click the button.
This is all fine and not an issue. The only thing that is bugging me is the fact that I can disable the send button but the image does not get disabled (like I would expect).
Is there a way to do this elegantly because I don't want to provide a sendicon_disabled.png and change it myself (I don't think this should be my job).
Looking to emulate what flash and browsers do for buttons, switch from the cursor to the pointer hand. It seems to happen to everything seen as a button but I need it to do that on all links. This is for an exe. presentation.
I have a simple catching game with objects falling from the top of the screen and when they are caught at the bottom I want a movieclip to appear with +5 to show the point scoring. I have set up a timer to show the mc then to delete it when it finishes. It all works apart from the mc will not disappear once the timer is finished. I have thrown a trace statement in to check that it is firing and that shows up fine. What the hell am I doing wrong? Here is the section of code:
I have a movieclip and I load a png file into it. then I want to put an onRelease on it and this won't work.. my cursor doesn't even change into a hand... Am I missing somthing here?
