Bizarre roll over problem

programming flash
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I’m having trouble getting something to work in flash mx. before when i tried to make the file available no one was able to open it so i will just describe the situation… I have the two letters J and C and then a picture of an eye which i made in flash… so it is JC(eyepic) and then i want the eye, when a mouse is rolled over it, to dissapear and be replaced by the word eye. This should only require two frames, i have the first frame with JC(eyepic) and the second frame with JCeye… I put a stop action on frame one, and then i converted the eye pic to a movie clip, and put the actions on it: on rollover goto and play same scene frame 2… but that doesn’t seem to do anything. I also tried goto and stop, that did nothing either… Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

2

Try adding something like this to your eye movieclip.

on (rollOver) {
	this.gotoAndStop(2);
}
on (rollOut) {
	this.gotoAndStop(1);
}
3

Or, if you wanted to cut down your code a bit…

As long as you have a stop action on both of the actions in the eye movie clip, you could use the following code instead of electrongeek’s code:

[AS]on (rollOver, rollOut) {
this.play();
}
[/AS]

This would move the currentframe 1 forward when you rollover or rollout, so it would go to the next frame (will only work if you have 2 frames).

Hope that helped!

4

If I just copy and paste the code you have supplied is that supposed to work? or do I need to change something? It wasn’t working, it told me that it could not have two handlers in the same script or something like that… Some wierd thing. Should I give the movie clip an instance name? should I make it an instance of a button instead?

Thanks, I will also attach the file, maybe this time it will be openable on other peoples computers.

5

I wasn’t able to open your file since it was probably created on a MAC and I’m on a PC.

Here’s an example of how it should look like.

6

Well I can’t open your file either :S… but i figured something out. If I make the eye a button, and then put: on rollover goto and stop this scene frame 2… it works, but then I can’t get it to go back to the first scene… I have tried putting on rollout blah blah blah after the on rollover stuff but that doesnt work.

I think we can solve this soon, i appreciate all the help.

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Cross platformming is a real problem. Are there any tools around to convert from Mac to PC or vise-versa? Maybe the new flash version will have it built in…

8

YES!!! victory! It turns out I wasn’t thinking. Since the pic of the eye changes to the word eye the surface area is reduced and therefore it was flashing back and forth. But I put a white rectangle under the word eye and now it works, before flash was assuming u had rolled off if you were’nt on one of the letters and so it would go back to the eye pic, but of course the mouse was still over that so it would flash back and forth over and over and over… thank heavens that is solved. thank you very much to everyone who helped!

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That’s good news! But instead of using a white square, use a transparent square. To do this, select the white square and go to Windows > Color Mixer. Change the Alpha to 0% and you have a transparent square!

Using transparency is much better because if you have a background image or pattern, white will show up whereas a transparent square won’t.