Basic but I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Deadfrog
I've been trying to find some tutorials on this but haven't had any luck. I'm kinda new to flash and I would really appreciate some help.
I saw this on the may1st reboot site. When I click on a link how do I make that link change color letting that user know that they are on that section and when I click on another link how do I make that link change color and make the original link change back to it's original state.
Any help would be appreciated...THANKS.
- Deadfrog0
Anyone...
- JamesEngage0
if you're making a button... when you edit it on the time time line you with have 4 frames
UP OVER DOWN HIT
up is when the button has no mouse over it
over is when it has
down is when the mouse is over it and the button is down.
HIT is the shape you use to define the active area of the button... this is most useful when your button is a text link... as you will keep rolling on and off (i.e if you point at the middle of a 0)
- Deadfrog0
I'm familiar with that much of it...but what I'm trying to do is a bit more complicated than that...
When I click a button I want it to change color and stay lit and when I click on another button I want the first button I clicked on to go back to it's original color and the new button change color and stay lit until I click on another button...similar to the participants section of
http://www.may1reboot.com/flash.…Thanks...
- shant0
The simple explanation of it is that those aren't simple buttons, they are movie clips with in transitions and out transitions. There is a function that controls all of them at once. It knows which one was clicked, and tells that one to stay at the in transition, and it knows which one was last clicked, and tells that one to transition out.
That way, when a new one is clicked, the last clicked button transitions out and the newly clicked one transitions back in.
Did that make sense?
- Deadfrog0
Yes that made sense...but is there any tutorials I can find that explain this type of function...
- shant0
Sorry, don't know of any tutorials for that.
- vespa0
there are complicated ways to do it but if you are new to flash why don't you just send it to a different place in the timeline for each link, and at each point in the timeline swap the relevant button for a graphic that looks highlighted?
- Deadfrog0
I could do that which would be the easier way to do it but I'd also like to learn about how it works...