# Mouse over effects
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 11, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213 "2004-07-11T13:39:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fiery\_rockstar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fiery_rockstar)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213/1 "2004-07-11T13:39:00Z")
Can someone explain this to me in steps… If you click [here](http://www.vapour-music.co.uk) and look at the little intro animation. I want to make it so that whenever someone clicks on an image it gets bigger, then whenever they press a close button it goes back to its normal position. Can someone explain this slowly with the code?
Thanx, J
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213/2 "2004-07-11T21:39:29Z")
I have a pretty good idea, but i’m writing it on the fly, so it might not work right.
Basically, you want each image to expand…
That can be done like this:
on(release){
expandID = setInterval(expand, this);
}
function expand(button:Button){
//When you want the button to stop expanding, like at 150% the original size
//You do something like this:
if(button.\_xcale \>= 150){
clearInterval(expandID);
}
//And for the expanding code:
button.\_xscale += 10;
button.\_yscale += 10;
}
Now, the part I can’t really remember…
You need to use swapDepths() so that the image you’re expanding goes over the other images.
But I forget how to do that.
For the shrinking code, it’d be the same as the expand, except instead of \_xscale += 10; it’d be -= 10;
Hope this helps. I think you should be able to use it… in the meantime i’ll try and hunt down the thing I did a while ago that does this. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213/3 "2004-07-11T21:42:47Z")
Thats great thanx, ill give it a shot tomorrow and see how it goes 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213/4 "2004-07-11T21:46:16Z")
no prob. hope it works.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-over-effects/57213/5 "2004-08-02T00:16:48Z")
Finally got round to actually using that code… and I can’t get it to work :(… the images just don’t expand