Flash Buttons

[D-Frag]

Okay, so I have scoured the internet to find a simple actionscript for creating a button in Flash CS 3. However I cannot for the life of me get this to work. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on the netz that explains in VERY SIMPLE terms how to accomplish this easy, but seemingly impossible thing to do?

I have tried making a rectangle shape with an alpha channel of 0%, making it "button" symbol and applying an action script to it but i keep getting errors.

then ive tried taking the "button" from the components, dropping it into my library, then placing it onto my artboard, but when I do this it wont allow me to apply an actionscript to it.

then i tried banging my mouse against the monitor, but as usual that had no effect on how well flash performs for me.....

any help please...... im a freaking noob when it comes to web stuff.....

[Red Kittie Kat]

I don't know much about flash through CS3 but take a look at this see if it helps at all.


http://www.quip.net/blog/2007/flash/making-buttons-work-in-flash-cs3

[D-Frag]

that did help, it helped so much i think im going to redo this all in AS 2.0 since i cant seem to find much support for that script online.

back to the drawing board (literally)

[Red Kittie Kat]

aww ... I wish I knew more to help you. I am a noob too. I'm sorry if that just made things more difficult http://redkittiekat.com/p9/confused.gif

[garricks]

We should form a Flash noob club. I'm struggling too. Funny thing, RKK, I was reading through the responses to that blog article and realized that he's the guy that co-wrote the Flash manual I'm using, Foundation Flash for Designers...It's a great book, I just can't seem to find enough time in my day to study.

[cnic]

I've been flashin for years now. Feel free to PM me if you need help.

Good luck.

[MikeTheVike]

You using AS3 or AS2?

[Drazan]

In AS3 you cannot assign an action directly to the button itself. You need to assign the AS in a seperate main actions layer. This is helpful so that you don't have to hunt-n-peck through changes. Everthing that you know from AS1 & 2 is has changed with AS3 (or at least a good majority of it).

Make sure you have logical button names.

here's some tips.
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1948039

:)
Jade
p.s. take this advice with a grain of salt - I'm just an AS3 newbie. :D

[D-Frag]

Thanks everyone, I actually have been over at flashgods.org for the last couple of days, someone just walked me through setting up all of my actions on an actions layer, now my movie has no errors and runs flawlessly, me so stoked!!!

so i highly recommend the "live support" feature over at that forum those people really know there stuff and i couldn't of done this with out them.

once i get this up on a server ill post a link so you can all oooh and ahhh over my horrible horrible flash movie ;)

[Drazan]

can't possibly be as horible as my first AS3 flash.

It was so bad that I actually deleted it after determining that this pile of crap had no redeming code to copy out anywhere. lol

:D
Jade

[Red Kittie Kat]

aww thats great DF!! I can't wait to see it :)