dupMC: Fade in each button?

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I have a question. I’m familiar somewhat with the duplicateMC() function but can not figure out how to do it - I see this everywhere BTW…

Check out http://www.advanceflash.net/ . The nav on the lower right comes in with a fade-swipe for each button. How would I actually have the transition occur? I have used the dupMC() for many nav sections, but the buttons always have the fade-swipe occur at the same tipe, rather than one after the other. Make sense?

Thanks

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Hi bchalker,
Try to work with movieclips and labels, then let them behave like buttons. Like using:

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
button1.onRelease = function(){
this.gotoAndPlay(“label_onRelease”); //here go to the label ‘label_onRelease’
}

This way you can create impressive animations like on advanceflash.net, by simply using tweens.

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thanks excidium…

I generally use MCs as buttons, and understand how to create the over/out/release effects for the “buttons”, but not how to transition the buttons when they initially load in - you know, one after the other - top one fade-swipes in, then the next, then the next, etc.

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Try this:
Make one movieclip (‘button’) which is the background of one button (the graphic).
Place that one in a new movieclip called like ‘button_animated’, there you animate the button with labels like ‘rollover’, ‘onRelease’, etc.
Then make a movieclip called ‘allButtons’, here place the ‘button_animated’ mc and give it instance ‘button1’, place it again for the second button and give instance ‘button2’, etc. If the animation of ‘button_animated’ has an alpha tween, like www.advanceflash.net, and you want ‘button2’ to fade in after ‘button1’, Simple put button two instead of frame 1 on frame 5 in ‘allButtons’, and repeat this for the rest of the buttons. Put the actions for onRelease, onRollOver, etc. in the movieClip ‘allButtons’ and this is a very simple and basic way to start.

Good luck

5

Thanks again excidium :slight_smile:

appreciate your direction. I’ll give it shot…

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no problem :)!!