Targetting problems

1

I am trying to do a little rollover effect in my animation. The animation (call it today.swf) is loaded into another animation using XML. Inside of today.swf, I have 3 buttons. When you rollover each one, they are supposed to change the alpha property of a movie clip (clip1, clip2, and clip3 for the three buttons). It works fine within today.swf but not when it is loaded into the other movie. I am guessing this is some _parent/.this stuff, but I can’t seem to make it work. Right now I have this on the buttons:

 
on (rollOver){
 setProperty(this.screen01, _alpha, "100");
}
on (rollOut){
 setProperty(this.screen01,_alpha,"0");
}

Any thoughts as to how to make this work?

2

you’d better use this

on (rollOver){
 this.screen01._alpha= 100
}on (rollOut){
 this.screen01._alpha=0
}
3

The problem is not that it will not change the alpha on rollover. The problem is in the targetting. When I use the code that I posted, it works just fine inside that particular movie. However, when I load this movie into a another, the alpha does not change at all.

Why would your code be better than my “setProperty” code?

4

I’m using this code because this is the flash mx syntax, easier to target things, i made you a quick example using movieclips instead of buttons, and it should be working when loaded into another swf