# Animated Text rollover button sucks! **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 7, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795 "2004-07-07T20:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@toog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toog)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/1 "2004-07-07T20:37:16Z")
Hi everyone, I posted something similar in the MX2004 forum, but no help yet. Here’s the deal, I’m trying to make text-based rollovers that link to other pages on my site. The problem is, as you can see, they don’t work very well. You have to have your mouse over the a “line” of the text. If your mouse is, for example, in the hollow place of the letter “O” then it doesn’t register. Help! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/2 "2004-07-07T20:39:20Z")
that doesn’t happen to me at all, if I put my mouse anywhere near the button it plays ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/3 "2004-07-07T20:42:16Z")
Seriously? What the? Anyone else? (thanks bombingpixels!) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/4 "2004-07-07T20:54:14Z")
btw, I’m testing in mx, not 2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/5 "2004-07-07T21:18:08Z")
yep, i tested it out also, works fine. Im using MX ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/6 "2004-07-07T21:43:41Z")
^ What they said. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/7 "2004-07-07T22:00:32Z")
Why do you have a movieclip in a button, which is in a button, which is in a button, which is in a button??? [size=1]No, I’m not stuttering:lol:[/size] scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/8 "2004-07-07T22:01:27Z")
I was trying to figure that out myself, but I figured I’d let him do what he likes and not critique his work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/9 "2004-07-07T22:04:10Z")
It’s a question, not critiqe;) scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/10 "2004-07-07T22:08:13Z")
fine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/11 "2004-07-07T22:09:52Z")
=) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/12 "2004-07-07T23:43:24Z")
Oh, er, smell a newbie, anyone? Yeah, I don’t really know what I’m doing. However, it is WEIRD that no one else is experience this problem. Oh well, I’ll ignore it, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/13 "2004-07-08T05:29:58Z")
think u may try this: draw a sharp of any color with alpha at 0%,and the size same as the text button, place it under the text layer inside the button instance. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/14 "2004-07-08T09:52:34Z")
What I meant, is that you can do it far more simple. The mc you have with the rollover effect, is the only thing you need. Look at the fla, the only thing I changed is what wheel suggested;) scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/15 "2004-07-08T10:54:51Z")
i made some change to toog’s rollover button. here is the fla. is that what u need? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/16 "2004-07-09T02:21:43Z")
Thank you both so much! I’ve got it working now! You all are great. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/17 "2004-07-09T07:40:59Z")
:thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/56795/18 "2004-07-09T07:45:31Z")
Also in the button thing theres labels saying Rollover, Release etc on the top of the frame labels well there’s one called Hit what you do in that is like draw a shape eg a box of where you want the area of where the mouse hits and changes it… nothing else needs to be on this frame except for the box… didn’t look at your fla so don’t know if this answers your question and i probably confused the hell out of you but its a heaps simpler way to do things…