Caption displayed in a specific area

1

Hi all.

What I am after is when rollover button for a caption to be displayed in a particular location that has been prepared, rather like the caption tutorial, except this will be revealing more than a word but rather a sentence. I already have an effect for the rollovers and would like to know a good way of doing this. I have four buttons and require a caption for each on rollover,

anyone have ideas??

T

2

Make the sentence and put it where you want - turn it into a movieClip. Give the sentences instance names like sentence1 and sentence2, etc. Then put these actions on the sentence movieClip: (eg - sentence1)


onClipEvent(load){
this._visible=false;
}

Then add this to the button actions:


on(rollOver){
_root.sentence1._visible=true;
}
on(rollOut){
_root.sentence1._visible=false;
}

That’ll do it.

3

Two ways:

  1. Create moviclips of your captions, put them on the stage and give them instance names (captionMC1, captionMC2 etc.)

Declare their visibility false on the first frame:
[AS]captionMC1._visible = false;
captionMC2._visible = false;[/AS]
Then type this action for the button:
[AS]on (rollOver) {
_root.captionMC1._visible = true;
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.captionMC1._visible = false;
}[/AS]
2. You can use a dynamic text box and do it all with actionscript. Create a dynamic text box big enough for your caption, then give it a variable name like “caption”.

On the button type:
[AS]on (rollOver) {
caption = “Your caption here”;
}
on (rollOver) {
caption = " ";
}[/AS]
Method 2 would be easier for more buttons, but you can play around with the appearance of movieclips more than dynamic texboxes.

4

Thanks for your responses, I will try them out asap

Trev