2 simple things in flash perplex me.. please help

[cosmicbdog]

1) In a certain flash file with 'movie scripted buttons', sometimes upon loading the file, the buttons won't perform their rollover or clickable features. Seems random to me and potentially browser / os based (i'm mac) - but for example, if I load the SWF by typing in the URL it works fine however IF I then refresh the file though I must say "bye bye" to any interaction -- e.g look don't touch.

2) What is the actionscript way of making a movie symbol come to the front?

Your humble student,

Cosmicbdog

[marSoul]

In action script you can control movie clips with these codes :

duplicateMovieClip, createEmptyMovieClip, createTextField,attachMovie,removeMove

[cosmicbdog]

Thanks morSoul...

I'm thinking ideally it would be something like:

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if(page == "home") 
{ 
        /* goto the down state of the clip but_home
	but_home.gotoAndStop("down");

        /* bring the button in front of the buttons around it
        but_home.arrangeToFront;
}

Its just that last line which is obviously not working for me... Additionally, all the buttons are on the same layer.

Any ideas if this is possible? Basically I'm just trying to AS the drop down ability to select an object and go 'Modify' => 'Arrange' => 'Bring to front'...

[marSoul]

You can use a behavior to control what you want,
read this page, it can help you :
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/...1af6-7db0.html

[cosmicbdog]

Behaviors hey... thank you sir, this seems to have accomplished the task nicely!!!

If I could just now see the actionscript for what its done - is that possible?

[cosmicbdog]

The reason I ask is because in this situation where I've created a bunch of tabs in a navigation dynamic, the tab that is at the forefront I want the scripts to be deactivated on.

[marSoul]

can you please show the live sample of your work, it could be better understandable if i see it