Flash Button

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Skye wrote on 2011-01-19 04:55

Ok guys. For this class I'm taking I have to make an animation similar to this one. I have everything except that dumb clam button (well, the clam is drawn and everything, I just don't know how to make it do what the example does). Can anyone give me even a clue on how to do it? I looked and looked and looked for like 2 or 3 hours last night, but I got nothin'. Thanks for any help in advance, because I'm going to bed now.
Bakuryu wrote on 2011-01-19 05:12

It's been well over 5 years since I touched Flash (possibly more...), let alone actionscript.
But should be easy to do something like that, assign name to button, use actionscript OnClick event to take to another frame (where the "hello there!" is in) and OnRelease event to take you back to the original frame.
Since you want the fish to keep moving while clicking, you should use the object "internal" frames (I forgot however it's actually called >>), I think you have to double click the object or something like that.

Hmm, I think you can also assign different states to a button through the UI, which would make this even easier.
edit: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/126/tn_12632.html See if that helps.

If I had flash installed I would probably figure this out in 10 seconds, but since I haven't used it for so long it's not. Hopefully I was able to help though.
Skye wrote on 2011-01-19 17:28

To be honest, that didn't really help. ^^; Thanks though, that'll probably come in handy sometime.

I'm having a somewhat new problem now. The button kind of works, but when I click on it, it doesn't do anything, and when the cursor is over the button, it like, has spasms. I'll keep trying to get it to work, but for now, I'm hopeless. :(
Taycat wrote on 2011-01-19 18:00

What verison of flash?
Bakuryu wrote on 2011-01-19 18:55

Quote from Skye;296991:
To be honest, that didn't really help. ^^; Thanks though, that'll probably come in handy sometime.

I'm having a somewhat new problem now. The button kind of works, but when I click on it, it doesn't do anything, and when the cursor is over the button, it like, has spasms. I'll keep trying to get it to work, but for now, I'm hopeless. :(

You probably messed with the "Over" state of the button o.o; that's my only guess.
Skye wrote on 2011-01-19 20:05

Quote from kNocturn;297024:
What verison of flash?

CS3

Quote from Bakuryu;297058:
You probably messed with the "Over" state of the button o.o; that's my only guess.

Messed with it? It's the same as the up state, just a different color. I don't know if that could mess it up, since I have only a very skeletal knowledge of what I'm doing.

On another note, I can get the button to work, but only when I click on it above the actual button, and that's when I make the hit state larger. Anything below the very top of the button does the spasm thing.

Edit: So I scrapped the button and made a new one, and it works. :T_T: Finally! Thanks for the help Baku, I appreciate it. :)
Bakuryu wrote on 2011-01-19 20:28

Oh glad to know :D I was about to install Flash to try myself XD