Topic: Animated Buttons (Page 1 of 1)

Ok, I suck with flash so I came here . How do I make it so when I hover my flash buttons, it animates or fades to a color instead of just changing to that color instantly? I'm sure you flash gurus will give me a hand

You'd have to do that with something like an onClipEvent so that when someone mouses over the button it sends them to a series of frames with a simple shape tween for your color change.

I'll play around and come up with something.

Someting like deees?

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[This message has been edited by kretsminky (edited 12-12-2001).]

Here's how I did that one....

#1. Make a movie clip where frame 1 is the normal state of the button. Frame 1 should have a stop action on it.

#2. Frames 2 through 20 or whatever are just going to be a simple shape tween from one rectangle to another. Your last frame (in my case frame 20) should have a stop action on it to keep the color fade from repeating)

#3. Make a transparent button by creating a button with only something in the hit state.

#4. Drag your movie from the library onto your main stage and give it an instance name of buttonMovie. Now drag the button and put that on a layer over the top of your movie.

#5. On the button put the following action:

on(rollOver) {
_root.buttonMovie.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

on(rollOut) {
_roo.buttonMovie.gotoAndStop(1);
}


Thats it! You can add more to the movie and more on(mouseEvent) actions. One for on(press) etcetera.

If you want the fla file just let me know.

yes krets exactly, but umm, how the hell did u post that flash in ur post?

nm krets i figured out how you did it , thanks for the quick tut too

psssst! psssst! html is turned..... "ON" shhhhh!


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[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 12-16-2001).]

HTML is on in this forum... it's the only one, so people don't start throwing /TD tags around and stuff...


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