Hi, I really need to make a transparent button, so it needs to just look like floating text but with button capabilities. But I was confused about a couple things:
Initially I was using the “FPushButtonSymbol” but was unable to make it transparent, although I tried like this:
…
_root.attachMovie(“FPushButtonSymbol”, ‘myButton’, 0);
_root[‘myButton’].useHandCursor = true;
_root[‘myButton’].setStyleProperty(“face”, 0xffffff);
_root[‘myButton’].setStyleProperty(“shadow”, 0xffffff);
_root[‘myButton’].setStyleProperty(“darkshadow”, 0xffffff);
_root[‘myButton’].setStyleProperty(“highlight”, 0xffffff);
_root[‘myButton’].setLabel(“go forward”);
…
This left some shadow though 
So, I utlized a post from ezboard.com, which said to just make a square and then do Insert->Convert to Symbol and make it a button symbol. When I converted into a symbol, I also exported it for use with ActionScript. So I have been making instances of my new button (TermButt)… But can I still use generic button functionality like labeling, text fonts/colors, button size:
_root.attachMovie(“TermButt”, ‘myButton2’, 1);
_root[‘myButton2’].useHandCursor = true;
_root[‘myButton2’].setLabel(“go back”);
_root[‘myButton2’].setSize(100, 25);
_root[‘myButton2’]._X = 300;
_root[‘myButton2’]._Y = 200;
_root[‘myButton’].data = 2;
_root[‘myButton2’].onPress = function() {
_root[‘myButton2’].removeMovieClip();
gotoAndPlay(1);
};
So, this post on ezboard.com made sense… but when I first converted it into a symbol, it said that I should edit the button itself. Do I do this by just double clicking on it in the Library? Thats what I did… it opened up alright with labels:
“Up”, “Over”, “Down”, “Hit” in that order … but the frames are not
numbered, So I wasnt sure what it meant by “grab the first frame and drag it to frame 4, leaving all other frames blank”.
I’ve been annoyed with this all day, any help/suggestions would be appreciated!! 
Sorry for the long post!
Thanks so much
