# Flash 101

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 10, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163 "2003-07-10T01:47:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![padawan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@padawan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/padawan)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/1 "2003-07-10T01:47:27Z")

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hehe…you will probably laugh at this site but hey its my first attempt…and i mean first…

anyway as you see the arrows are just tweens that loop. i don’t know as very well but what i want is when you mouse over the button the arrow takes a windy path to where the arrow ends up now…hope that makes sense…if anyone can help or would like too that would be cool

[www.spectatorsgrilleandbar.com](http://www.spectatorsgrilleandbar.com)

oh yeah and heres the .fla files if that help…

there all going to laugh at me…lol:toad:

i guess no fla file too big…something else i have to work on

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/2 "2003-07-10T02:06:30Z")

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What you need to do is make the arrows as Movie Clips.

Make the first frame of the Movie Clip blank and put a stop action in it ( stop(); ).

Then make your animation on the next frames.

Then on your button on the \_root timeline. Have the onRollOver action go to your movie clip and play starting at the second frame.

\<code\>  
myButton\_btn.onRollOver = function () {  
myMovieclip\_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);  
}  
\</code\>

In this code example myButton is the name of your button…and myMovieClip is the name of the arrow animation.

## Good Luck 🙂

Michael

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/3 "2003-07-10T03:15:17Z")

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aww its not that bad you should have seen my first attempt at flash  
(i didnt even know how to make an MC)  
but um… i think you should put a preloader

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/4 "2003-07-10T07:56:56Z")

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i don’t know the first thing about using a preloader or how to make one.🙂 anyone know a good tutorial or something. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/5 "2003-07-10T07:58:23Z")

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Look the tutorial section here on Kirupa. Lots of good tutorials there.  
🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/6 "2003-07-10T07:58:51Z")

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cool thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-101/25163/7 "2003-07-10T08:06:41Z")

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You re welcome 😉