Button rollout?

[josh111]

I have made a button. In the overstate of the button I have put in a Movie that fades up and changed the color of the link. I want to, when you rolloff the button, have a Movieclip play fading the color down and back to the original button state. I'm not sure exactly how to do this. If anyone could help me out I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,
josh111

[Webforumz Staff]

Simply place a movie in the first frame of the button, with the rollout state. The only catch is that this rollout movie also plays when the button first appears.

[josh111]

Thank. One other question, what is the actionscript I would put in the first frame? onRollout for the MC or what?

Thanks,

[Webforumz Staff]

You don't need any actionscript... you simply place the movie inside the button on the appropriate frame...

[pixelsystem]

Dont place your roll in/out movies into the button itself as separate. Your button should have just one move (key frame). Your movie should stop and do nothing (and show nothing) on the fist frame. From fram 2 to 10 (or however long your fadein is) it should do the effect and stop on the last frame. Via ActionScript, on rollover tell your movie to play the fade in via gotoAndPlay(2) and on rollout tell it to play backwards using the following function:

MovieClip.prototype.goback = function(){
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
this.prevFrame();
if (this._currentframe == 1)
{
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

You will have to tweak it to your frames, but you get the idea.

[Webforumz Staff]

Originally Posted by pixelsystem

Dont place your roll in/out movies into the button itself as separate. Your button should have just one move (key frame). Your movie should stop and do nothing (and show nothing) on the fist frame. From fram 2 to 10 (or however long your fadein is) it should do the effect and stop on the last frame. Via ActionScript, on rollover tell your movie to play the fade in via gotoAndPlay(2) and on rollout tell it to play backwards using the following function:

MovieClip.prototype.goback = function(){
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
this.prevFrame();
if (this._currentframe == 1)
{
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

You will have to tweak it to your frames, but you get the idea.

That's good, but many people don't have a solid understanding frame based animation and using buttons, let alone an understanding of Actionscript!

[pixelsystem]

Well maybe what would be interesting is a section where we can upload or in any way host FLA examples?

[Rob]

Originally Posted by pixelsystem

Well maybe what would be interesting is a section where we can upload or in any way host FLA examples?

This functionality (file attachements to posts) will be coming in the next 3 or 4 months. I think it will be a worthwhile addition of functionality.