Action Script and button Behavior

Imported a bmp as png, made it into a movie clip. Setup the
AS to call for page 4. It works great. I would now like to have a
text box come up on the rollover. I tried to nest the mc into a
button. I can make the text box work but the script won’t
work when I click.
Could you refer me to a resource that would explain the
relationship between the two. Or is there another way to do this.
So the text box says “Click here for more Info”.
Can’t click to execute Action Script, I think it is not
addressable because it’s nested in the button.
If I reverse the nesting then the text box in the over frame
won’t execute.

Mjddoyle wrote:
> Imported a bmp as png, made it into a movie clip. Setup
the AS to call for page
> 4. It works great. I would now like to have a text box
come up on the rollover.
> I tried to nest the mc into a button. I can make the
text box work but the
> script won?t work when I click.
> Could you refer me to a resource that would explain the
relationship between
> the two. Or is there another way to do this.
> So the text box says ?Click here for more Info?. Can?t
click to execute Action
> Script, I think it is not addressable because it?s
nested in the button.
> If I reverse the nesting then the text box in the over
frame won?t execute.
Sorry, a bit chaotic and i can't really get your arrangement.
Please upload what you have so far, we will go from there.
There is so many ways to achieve the same thing in flash that
there
is no point going into it, could turn up suggested solution
totally
does not suit your project. Need to see what you have so far.
Upload to your server and provide URL for us to check.
Best Regards
Urami
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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> I am creating a video gallery off of the demo action
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>
> Thanks
>
> Ari
>
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>
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http://www.wmhelp.com/download.htm
free xmlpad editor for windows. Why? because it supports
editing the
dating in 3 different ways: Source <which has syntax/tag
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error
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xml file then
you are missing
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</video> and </flashvideogallery>
I have personally spent the last week playing with the
example and
modifying it to have a scrollbar so that i can show more than
36 videos,
and have edited the xml files to add more entries.

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