Btns & mcs

Question

I just upgraded from CS2. I am creating drop nav menu for
html site because spry is too generic looking, and no one in DW
forum answered my question regarding customization.
My problem is that in CS3, flash is telling me that I cannot
add an action to a movie clip or a button. What's with that? What
good is a movie clip if you can't add an action to it? I opened
some of my old .fla's and there's no problem with them. It's just
when starting a fresh animation.
It's similar to js pop-ups created with DW 8. CS3 will
support them, but not let you create them. Can anyone help please?

Answer 1

@Brandon: although you should not really post to someone
else's topic, and instead make your own, I'll throw you a bone
since it's your first post.
many things about AS3 are based on a Listener/Broadcaster
Event model (to put it loosely) so in order to recieve event
notification from a button, you must create a listener and an event
response function.
In AS2 we would write the code using 'on' handlers, as in:
my_btn.onPress = function() {
//do somthing here
In AS3 we now write a responing function and add an event
listener to the button instance:
function doSomething(event:MouseEvent) {
//doing something here
my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doSomething);
All of this information is documented in the Flash Help (F1)
manual, there's more info there than you will probably ever get
through, and is a great resource for starting your learning, also
use the Forum, and ask question, just like you did and soon you'll
be programming away. good luck, see ya around :)
@dz: thanks for havin' my back man :)