Help with buttons

programming flash
1

Well I’ve been studdying flash for 10 hours now, I have a little animation, and a preloader, and I’ve learned a little action script.
I’m attepmting to make a small, but clean looking web site for my upcoming comp biz. I have been trying for 2 hours now to make a successfull button… all I want is buttons<and my web site> to have a drop down menu to choose from and things pop up, kinda like this one…

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm

click on the button that says “View sample site”

I’m always on icq at 6033753, and I’ll check in here once in a while, if somone could talk to me on icq and walk me through 1 working button or give me a few toturals, thanks

:tie:

2

complex buttons need to be movieClips rather than straightUp buttons…

>>>HERE is the stock MacroM’s tutorial<<<

check this out … hope it helps

3

good link RelandR.

You may also want to try working on a regular-ol’ button first to
get the hang of it’s properties and behaviors.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/buttonlink.htm

It says flash5, but it works the same in MX. :slight_smile:

Also, you’re going to be notified by a moderator about your footer
size, so I figure I’d let you know myself it will have to be changed. The footer restrictions are 300x60, and you can view
the whole list of requirements here:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16928

4

These are both for flash 5, the one I need is the drop down menue one, but I can’t follow it, cause flashmx doesn’t have the commands it want’s me to use…or at least I can’t find them…

:crazy:

5

You can use things meant for 5 in MX…
…just not necessarily the other way round,

Cheerz

6

The only important difference that I can think if is that the instance name in MX is put in the “properties” window. In 5.0 there is a “Instance” panel under menu options Window/Panel/Instance.

everything else should be pretty much the same.