I just uploaded a new tutorial at http://www.gotoandlearn.com called “Creating Animated Buttons” which shows the basics of how to create animated buttons using MovieClips. This is more of a beginner tutorial and is a vital skill to learn when starting out. Hope you like it!
Lee
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I love your tutorials. Thanks!
meh not one of your best works
very useful for beginner….thanks Lee for your great work
It seems like characters such as “-” and numbers aren’t supported with this.
Example:
b1.buttText.buttonText.text = “1a- Home”;
Looks like this: aHome
Any ideas?
You need to embed any extra characters. In the tutorial I only embedded the letters. You can just add the “-” character or all of the punctuation marks.
Ah. I see I tried that…and…drum roll… it did the trick.
So to “embed any extra characters” I went to the dynamic text field properties clicked the character button and added Numerals and Punctuation as well as Upper and lowercase.
thanks a lot “Admin”
I Having trouble linking the buttons to goto a different part of my site.
any help would be apreciated
I like to have a urls on the buttons how can i do that?
I am unable to link to a movie clip on my main timeline. I have tried adding a button, but that removes the animation. I am also having an issue with the over state sticking if I mouse over the button too quick.
Any suggestions? Love the tutorials, you’re a humanitarian!
Cheers,
Jerry
Thank you for the splendid tutorial on animated buttons. I found it very easy to follow.
I tried to follow using AS 3.0, but found some interesting issues.
In AS 3.0, the
b1.onrollOver
is replaced by
b1.addEventListener(‘mouseOver’, over );
I defined over() as:
function over( e:MouseEvent ) { e.target.gotoAndPlay(2) )
The problem is that the text field doesn’t repond to “gotoAndPlay”. If I exclude the text field by doing:
if( e.target != “[object TextField]” ) { e.target….. }
Everything works just fine, as long as I don’t “mouse over” within the text region in the button.
Adobe doesn’t provide enough guidance for the beginner to sort this stuff out on his/her own
Hi Lee,
Posting in the forum. People have asked this question. didn’t see an answer though?
What do I need to do to my animated button (which is a movieclip obviously) to make it gotoandplay different frames in my root timeline? thank you, any help is much appreciated.
Aaron.