Button activation

Question

I am embarrassed to ask this question. But how do you
activate a button that is embedded in a movie clip? Do you use the
linkage properties to export for ActionScript or is there another
way?
Gizay

Answer 1

My apologies, Shandy. Sometimes it takes knowing the solution
before knowing if you are experiencing the same problem or one best
asked elsewhere.
Nonetheless, I'll summarize my solution here rather than make
a new post to simply do so.
In my case, I created the problem by attaching a onRollOver
call to the parent movie clip. By doing this, I couldn't assign new
button states to it's children. The solution is to use another,
perhaps invisible button that is not part of the parent, or create
the button with something that is a child just like the other
children, which will be buttons in themselves.
Gizay, there a lot of things that could potentially cause you
to not be able to target your sub-buttons (like my example), but in
general, you can simply target it using a relative path from you to
the target. For example, in my case, I'd target the sub-button from
the root like:
parent.child.onRollover=function(){trace("hi")};
but if I were writing my code from the parent's timeline
(which I try not to do), it might look like:
child.onRollover=function(){trace("hi")};
You can also target from a child of the parent, to another
child, which might look like:
this._parent.child.onRollOver=function(){trace("hi")};
Hope it helps.
-Greg