I’ve tried on several occasions to use buttons contained within a MC that begins with an alpha animation. I can never get the buttons to work. The way I’ve attempted this in the past is the following …
The MC containing the buttons is 31 frames in length. The buttons in question are included on all 31 frames … a solid rectangular box (filled with the same color as the background of the site itself) is placed on top of all layers - in Frames 1-15, then again in Frames 17-31. The rectangular box is not present on Frame 16 (there is a ‘stop’ action on this frame). Follow this …
The ‘alpha’ on the solid rectangular box is set to 100% in Frames 1 and 31 and 0% in Frames 15 and 17. Picture this … the info appear to fade in as the MC plays from Frame 1 to (the ‘stop’ action) Frame 16 … then eventually fade out when it plays from Frame 17 to 31.
I have the feeling the ‘alpha’ setting is causing the issue. Would you mind weighing in on this topic and possibly offering a ‘work around’ to attain this effect?
Thanks in advance.
