Continusly movement on button hold

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so yeah like it says i want to have a button and when you hold it a movie clip continusuly moves downward. so yeah.

basically there is no option that i can uses such as

on(hold);

cause well thats not a script. so anyways anyone know how i can do this? or how i can check to see if the mouse is pressed over the button?

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Here, I’m not boasting or anything but look at the buttons on the top of my page and tell me if this is what you are talking about? I did my buttons as movieclips with a ‘dummy_button’ over the top of them for the actionscript (i.e. rollOver,rollOut etc). This way it gives you more options as to what you want your buttons to act like.

My site: http://rberry883.home.comcast.net

If this is not what you are looking for then disregard the above (and stop laughing at my site! :slight_smile: ) and someone who knows what they are doing can help you.

3

give the movieclip an instance name, my example will be imaginatively named myMC :P.

on your button, have an on(press) event as follows… assuming the movieclip is on the _root level:

on (press) {
	_root.myMC.onEnterFrame = function(){
		this._y++
	}
}
on (release) {
	delete _root.myMC.onEnterFrame
}

note you mite want an on(releaseOutside) identical to on(release)

Prophet.

4

Prophet is right on about this… you can, however, use the same function for release and releaseOutside. the whole code would be as follows:

  
on (press) {
	   _root.myMC.onEnterFrame = function(){
			  this._y++
   }
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
   delete _root.myMC.onEnterFrame
}
5

thanks mattvenables… i didnt actually know that!! u learn sumit evryday :wink: lol

Prophet.

6 
on(rollOver){
	gotoAndPlay("over");
}
on(press){
	gotoAndPlay("down");
}
on(rollOut, releaseOutside){
	gotoAndPlay("goback");
}
on(release){
	with(_root){
		gotoAndPlay("Home");
}
}

This is the actionscript for the dummy button that acts as the hit area of my movieclip buttons. Maybe not the cleanest I like it better than trying to get button symbols to behave with something more than just up,down,over.

7

mattvenables, prophet worked great. anyways i guess with it being y++ theres no way i could speed it up without increasing the fps?

also another quick question, how do i load (or “activate”) a movie clip from a button.

anyways great replies.

8

:bump:

9

simply change y++ to y+=x and rather than increase by 1, it will increase y by however many x represents (eg. y+=5)

give your mc an instance name and use its path to activate it: easiest way, have a blank frame on first frame and have action stop() on it and then on your button use sumit like _root.myMC.play() wer myMC is the instance name you gave it… assuming your mc is on the main timeline :wink:

Prophet.

PS glad i could help :wink:

10

wow i guess i was thinking it would be really complicated like _root.load.function.math.pi(54%6);;{}sd.mymc i dunno oh well worked great again.

11

happy flashing :slight_smile:

Prophet.

12

hehe. I love to flash :wink: