# Button workflow

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-workflow/169607>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 17, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-workflow/169607 "2005-11-17T17:19:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![corea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@corea](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/corea)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-workflow/169607/1 "2005-11-17T17:19:09Z")

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I need a good button workflow with all the possible features (animated buttons, possibility to visually stay turned on, etc.) and all done smoothly, without too many layers of movieclips, etc. Let’s say I have to do some flash interface templates that are going to be used (and filled with content) by other ppl, and I want to combine nice looks and animation of the interface with easy use and no exessive code.

So, I need every button to have a fade in and a fade out animation - and that’s ok, I can do that with this.onRollOut and this.onRollOver inside a simple animated button, and go back and forth in the animation.

But, I also need the buttons to stay clicked when clicked on (to indicate where you are in the current ‘presentation’;), and all the other buttons in the same group of buttons to ‘unclick’ (go back to the initial state). And I also need each of them to trigger and action when clicked on 🙂

I think all this is easier with regular buttons and not clickable movieclips, but then I don’t have a cool fadeout animation (but only fade-in, as I only have a ‘rollover’ state, and not a rollout).

I hope I managed to explain my problem, so if anyone has a nice and flexible button workflow, I would appreciate any advice.

Thanx!