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"Flash Buttons..."

Right, I have made a button in flash with an up, over, down and hit state. No probs. On the 'hit' state of the button, I have used the properties command to 'get url' about_us.html.

When I have put the button into the movie itself, it refuses to work. The button will rollover and stuff as expected, but it doesn't even try to get the url!?

any ideas?!

in the frame labelled "Hit" just draw a box the same size as the button and set it to an alpha of 0%, this should now make your button work.

That Sucks. But the button doesn't even hit on the text area. So do i have to group the text layer with a hidden box behind it?

you have 4 states... something like up, over, down and hit

The hit area can contain a copy of the original button set to an transparency of 0%. If you use txt, it will only hit on the shapes of the text if these are outlined not if they are "raw" text!!

I don't think i have defined the hit area - that would make sense... how do i do that?

Surely when i put text in the hit state, it automatically defines it as the hit area? or not?!

Not wanting to state the obvious, but you have greated this as a "button" object, told it that it is to behave like a button and named it correctly?

You have defined the "hit" area?
Does the button contain any movie clips?
You have asigned it's actions? "on (release)" "on (rollover)" etc etc?

Your ActionScript for the button should look something like:

on (press) {
getURL ("http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/", "_blank");
}

If your target is different from _blank, just change this variable.

Hope that helped?

Tyla

*Thwump*
That's the sound of Flash going straight over my head ad into the wall behind me. I've used Flash before, but only for drawing stupid crappy things. My mate Ben knows all, but he lives in Brighton and I haven't spoken to him for over a year. Sorry, that wasn't any help really was it. Do you do web design for SR then?

Right, I have made a button in flash with an up, over, down and hit state. No probs. On the 'hit' state of the button, I have used the properties command to 'get url' about_us.html.

When I have put the button into the movie itself, it refuses to work. The button will rollover and stuff as expected, but it doesn't even try to get the url!?

any ideas?!