Button as opposed to a layer

I created a banner ad with actionscripts for 3rd party ad servers. I created the button as a layer, but the media company had this to say about my banner ad....how do I do this?
With regards to the .FLA and .SWF files, they were tested. While the correct Click Var code was implemented, it was implemented as a layer instead of a button. They are telling me that we had the same issue last time. Please have this corrected and included as a button instead of a layer.

You are better off asking them what they are talking about. They should point out an example (like whatever file they say it was corrected in before).

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Buttons dissappearing when turning off layer?

Hello,
I have created a presentation in indesign CS4 with layers which will show content when buttons are pressed per page.
I exported the file and have started to action the buttons to show these layers when pressed and add close buttons on these panels.
All the pages seem to work fine apart from one page which I actioned the button to turn on the layer and a close button on the panel which then closes the layer, this all works fine but…the navigation buttons which are in the bottom of the page and are on a completely different layer disappear as well when you close the panel which it shouldn’t do, but if you then run your cursor over the area they show up again? I have tried locking the button layer which doesn’t make a difference, also in indesign I have even put the buttons on the main content layer and exported but this doesn’t make a difference. I have selected the buttons on this page and locked them but they still disappear…help
The strange thing is other pages where the buttons are set up the same and have buttons to turn on and close buttons these work fine and the navigation buttons don’t move…is there a fix or is this a software gliche?
Many thanks in advance for any help

Save effect... Turn it off and it's gone.

Creating a button with a text label layer

Hi guys. Looking for any tips on how best to implement a button with a text label. I initially created a rectangle object on a lower layer and with text in the upper layer via type tool. When I group both objects and create the button the text is readable in my InDesign (document) computer screen but the minute I preview it on my iPad the button becomes unreadable and pixellated. I tried various approaches by moving the text layer outside the button group does not display the text at all. Has anyone run into this issue? If so what is the best practice? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the insight Neil. Regarding my button design its nothing fancy. Its a rectangle box on one layer and a text label on another layer inside the rectangle object. What I'm trying to simulate is when the user taps on the button the click state will change colour to notify the user that they have activated an event and in this case a navto://...
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See the screen shots below.

Interactive button layer orders

when i create a button in indesign, it ignores the layer information i've specified, instead moving the newest button to the top layer no matter where it resides in the layer pallet.
it also floats it on top of all other page data - master or individual - no matter what layer those items are on as well. all my master page items are on the topmost layer while all the buttons are on the bottom layer, however all the buttons will float above the master page items.
i've experimented with this and created a /new/ layer, put it on the very top and created a new box (the newest item on the page), but when i export the PDF, all the buttons are floating on top still.
what's going on?

We had the same problem -- how do you influence the "stacking order" of the buttons?
You can't do that with layers, or with anything else from within InDesign. I think the reason for that is that the "buttons" in the PDF become a mere rectangle list, which has nothing (!) to do with the 'elements' you apply them to. You can see this for yourself if you create a button in Acrobat -- just draw any rectangle, and that's it.
If you have buttons on your master page and you don't want them on certain pages, you will have to delete them manually.

Making a visible top layer invisible for buttons/ controls on a layer underneath it.

THE PROJECT
I have 3 layers in a CS3 project, in the following order:
- top Layer (semi-transparent Vignet Layer, and some additional Graphics, all this is contained in a dynamicly loaded mc)
- Middle layer (Content, this contains the navigation and content. All of this loads dynamicly)
- Background (this contains a screenfilling Background image and some graphic alements, all this is contained in a dynamicly loaded mc)
THE PROBLEM
The top layer blocks all off the dynamic content because its on top of it.
SOLUTION
Dynamicly disable the top layer, so flash doent use it anymore.
I want to keep it visible, but not accessible for any mouse actions.
It has to keep the dynamic content underneath it visible for interaction.
I hope I Described it clear enough, so someone can give me the solution.
I gues it's some real simple code attachment.
Thanks.

I made a quick exaample to demo having a layer of something atop a controls layer and disabling it from interfering with controls below it. For this example, the lightened rectangular area is the Vignet layer that sits atop a button on a layer below it--I threw in a background layer too, just to cofuse the eyeballs I guess.. When you click the button it enables the Vignet layer so that it blocks the button, and clicking on it disables it again... just a liuttle variety of commands that might be useful for you at some point.
If you can let me/us know whow you file differs, then maybe it will be easier to identify a different solution if one is needed.
http://www.nedwebs.com/Flash/Vignet.fla

Isolating 1 layer to 1 button

Hi,
I have created a map. Its not complicated but train stations are on one layer, road names on another, POI on another etc. There are 6 in total including the base map.
I want to created buttons so you can turn individual layers on/off, however the current method I know (using Acrobats "Set layer visibility" action) seems to look at all the layers in a collective state when you set the visibility.
I just want each button to focus on one layer to either be on or off.
Can this be done?
Additional info: The map was created in IL, then imported into the interface in ID, then exported to PDF. Im using CS5.5 Master Collection on a 64bit Windows 7 machine.
Can send the example to anyone if they want.
Cheers,
James

Yes, but you'll have to use JavaScript actions on the buttons. For example if you have a layer called "stations" and want a button to toggle only that layer, assign this script:
var OCGs = this.getOCGs();
for (var i=0; OCGs && i<OCGs.length;i++) {
if (OCGs[i].name == "stations") OCGs[i].state ^= true;

Should all buttons be on 1 layer?

i guess that's my question right there. i've got simple,
static buttons, animated buttons and tween functions that end in
buttons. does it matter what layer the buttons are on?

Seth - I did and sorry for not responding - under some
critical deadlines this week and no time to
spend on it right now - ping me after monday :)
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
Seth Prince wrote:
> hey chris, i was wondering if you got my email regarding
the animated button i'm having trouble with.

Animation weiterverlinken zu dem zum Button gehörenden Layer

Version: Edge Animate 2014.01
ich habe folgendes Problem.
In meiner Animation gibt es 5 Button die bei Klick
auf einen der Buttons auf den entsprechenden Layer in der Zeitleiste springt.
Das funktioniert auch soweit.
Jedoch habe ich vor dem ersten Layer eine Animation erstellt, die bei Klick
auf einen der Button (egal auf welchen Button ich klicke) ablaufen soll und danach
zu dem zum Button gehörenden Layer springen soll.
Ich habe diesen Code: sym.stop("muenchen");
jedoch bleibt meine Animation am ersten Layer stehen.
Wie muss mein Code aussehen damit bei jedem Button erst die Animation abläuft
und dann auf dem richtigen Layer stehen bleibt.

Vielen dank für die Beispiele, dazu müsste ich aber meine
ganz Animation umbauen. Gibt es einen Code der sich auf die Layer bezieht?
Ich habe jetzt bei Klick diesen Code sym.play("start");
die Animation bleibt dann bei Layer1 stehen, ist ja korrekt so.
Die Animation soll bei Klick auf Button 2 aber ab dem Layer start laufen und erst bei Layer2 anhalten.
Meine Animation ist so aufgebaut.
start--------stop-Layer1----------stop Layer2---------stop Layer3
Wie geht mein Code weiter, dass er bei Layer 2 anhaltet?
sym.play("start"); weiter zu Layer2

Is it faster to load several separate buttons, or one Nav?

I'm working on a flash navigation for my site in development. I finished one of my buttons, I originally wanted to have each button as a separate flash object so if I wanted to change the name or what it looked like I could just swap it out rather then having to edit the .fla file. I'm using graphics I made in Photoshop for the button's bg. Also, each button has a sound on mouse-over.
I'm planning to have five buttons in total. One button is 10KB on the compression settings that I am happy with. Would it be faster for the page loading time though if I combined all the buttons into one flash object consisting of five separate frames?
Thanks!

I'm not sure what you mean by independent folders. You can always organize your Layers to have Layer folders but that is simply to organize the Layers and to collapse them to save real estate when necessary and expand them to see detail when necessary. It won't make a difference how you structure your FLA because all of your buttons will be embedded in your Library in the single SWF at runtime. So I guess you would still have all of the buttons externalized in the single SWF? As opposed to embedding them in your master Site SWF? Then you can use the load() method to load your buttons.swf file into your master.swf file . You still might run the risk of your server not responding well to the load() method at times and failing to load your nav buttons as opposed to if you had them embedded in your master swf. But if you have a reliable server and no bottleneck on your site then you could externalize all of your buttons. One cool thing is to have your graphical appearance of your buttons embedded into your master.swf file and your button labels externalized into an XML file that is basically like a text HTML file that can be changed and updated using a simple text editor and you would never have to reauthor the FLA file to make changes. You might even be able to format the font appearance but I'm not entirely sure since I'm still new to using XML to format content. But I do know that XML can be used to change the content of the text such as what the text actually says. You would externalize this .xml file the same way you would externalize an .AS actionscript file which would contain packages and classes as opposed to having your actionscript on Frame 1 of your FLA.

Adding a url to flash buttons in Dreamweaver

I have a web site built and I have recently added Flash buttons and I need to add my web pages to the buttons. How would I go about doing this?

Let's say you create a button symbol. Since it is a button, it is already a self animating object that will react to mouse interactions, but only visually at this stage. The first thing you need to do to make it useful code-wise is to assign it a unique instance name. So you drag a copy of it out to the stage from the library, and while it's still selected, you enter that unique instance name for it in the Properties panel... let's say you name it "btn1"
In AS3, to make a button work with code, you need to add an event listener and event handler function for it. You might need to add a few (for different events, like rollover, rollout, clicking it, but for now we'll just say you want to be able to click it to get a web page to open. In the timeline that holds that button, in a separate actions layer that you create, in a frame numbered the same as where that button exists, you would add the event listener:
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Click);
The name of the unique function for processing the clicking of that button is specified at the end of the event listener assignment, so now you just have to write that function out:
function btn1Click(evt:MouseEvent):void {
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   var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
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Import multiple images to one layer

I want to make a sprite. I have the sliced button psd images. I don't have the original psd file so I have to reassemble them in psf. The problem is I want to import all the button images to the canvas and then reassemble them. Photoshop let me put one image down and I guess it wants to create layers for the 2nd and 3rd image.
I don't need all those layers but I can't figure out to export all the sliced button images together into one layer? I tried selecting all images in the bridge and holding down the shift key to drag them to ps. This seems to have created a smart object of all the images combined on a second layer. I couldn't delete the object but ended deleting that layer. So my question is how to import all the sliced buttons into one layer?
Thanks

Once all the images are on their own layer, if you want to then put them onto a single layer, you can merge the layers. In the layer panel click on the icon in the upper right hand corner and select merge layers from that menu.
or right click on all selected layers to select merge layers
If you have a smart object, right click on that layer and select rasterize layer
Flatten layers will work as well but locks the resulting layer as a background.
Play around with the menu option next to merge layers and see what they do to multi-selected layers or to layers that are hidden. Very useful once you start using them.
Another hidden tip: Selecting all layers and using the key combination shift-control-alt-e will make a merged copy and place it at the top. {replace control with the mac equivelent if your on a mac}

How can I link from one flash document to another with buttons?

Hi,
From the question above, you can tell that I'm very new to flash, especially with scripting. Total noob.
I watched my instructor's videos and I'm still stumped. He didn't explain it very well.
For starters, I am using Flash CS6, but I clicked on AS1.0 and AS2.0 from the drop down mention in the actionscript window for the script below, since that is what my instructor used.
What I have now are various pages I've already created in flash that are different pages in my website, including a splash page with an enter button.
For example, I want the enter button to link to another .swf or .html file when it is clicked. This file will be the main page.
I tried using this script that my instructor mentioned in the video on the button layer:
on (release); {
getURL("page1.swf");
the "page1.swf" file is already in the same folder in my computer as my splash page and I even imported it to the library of my splash page.
From my instructor's video demo, that should be apparently all that is needed.
But I cannot get this to work.
I tested the file and this is what flash comes up with:
In the output tab:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable TCMText is not defined.
In the compiler errors tab:
Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 28', Frame 1, Line 1
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method on.
Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 28', Frame 1, Line 1
1120: Access of undefined property release.
Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 28', Frame 1, Line 2
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method getURL.
Any thoughts? My instructor also recommended that I embed the .swf into an .html, but he obviously didn't tell us how to do that!
Also, why doesn't script assist work with AS3?
Thank you so much!

Okay so I changed it to AS1/AS2.
Now it says this:
Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 28, frame=1, Line 1
Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 28, frame=1, Line 4
Syntax error.
I am very confused.
Also, since all my other pages are in AS3, is there some way I can use another script in AS3 that accomplishes the same task?
Can someone please provide me with the correct script to use?
Thank you so much! I feel that people here are much more responsive than my instructor is! Thank God for this forum!

Get buttons on a master to show up on all pages on export.

Argh! This issue has been driving me nuts for days.
I’m creating a course calendar at work and have some navigational buttons that I’ve created a buttons master, which I then applied to the content master. In my InDesign documents, the buttons show up on every page that I want but when I export to an interactive pdf, they only show up on 3 pages. When you go into the tools editing view in Acrobat, I can see that the buttons exist but they don’t show up!?
The layers in InDesign are such that the navigational buttons are the top most layer.
I have no idea what’s going on. This happened a few weeks ago and I fixed it by moving the buttons to the separate button master instead of having them exist on the content master. But now it’s reverting back to the same issue.
Thoughts?

on Mac OS X there is no icloud enabled apps at this time. iWork09 for Mac wont sync your data to iCloud.
To get documents to the cloud and thus to your IOS5 devices you need to visit www.icloud.com/iwork and manually upload your files ( or use drag and drop from Mac Desktop to the browser ).
This is no joke. Spreaded all over this support forums you find people that wondered how to do it until it was found out that iwork syncing is only enabled on iOS but not on OSX.

How can I make a menu with button's that fade-in?

I've built a motion menu in AE, and had added text layers/buttons that fade-in through layer>Encore>Create Button. Once I import this into Encore through dynamic link I cannot link the buttons to the motion menu. I've added a sample.
Basically all I want is the play feature, Scene selection ,and credits to be selectable after they finish fading in @ the :20 mark. I don't want the menu to loop either.
I've tried to make a static menu(from last frame in AE) play after this, but, there is a one second gap or so before that static menu plays which just looks tacky. I have tried this in preview, and rendered it to a dvd with the same result.
All the tutorials i've come across really don't answer this question either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

I believe that Jon Geddes has a TUTORIAL, that might also be useful to you.
Sounds like you and Stanley have it worked out, but you might pick up an additional idea, or two.
Good luck,
Hunt

Selected subpicture is not shown on certain buttons

I have various menus that were created in Photoshop. Most of them have a home button in the left top corner and a next button in the right top corner. Both buttons are almost inside the title save area. For all buttons I'm using one colored underlines as the selected subpicture. When I click the show subpicture command in the design menu view I can see all the subpictures. If I preview the menu the selected subpicture is not shown for the two top bottoms when they are selected, but they are shown for all the others. I don't understand it. The buttons look the same in Photoshop. Does any body have an idea what can cause this problem?
Marcus

I did some more testing with minimal menus and got very wired results:
I found out that the cause is the position of the button. I have a PAL widescreen menu. It is 576 pixel high. If the button with the underline is in the top ~120 pixel the selected subpicture is not shown. If I move the button in the 120 to 220 pixel range the line is shown thinner and below about 220 pixel the line is shown when selected. If I move the button up again and preview the subpicture is not shown again.
Now, if i move the subpicture from under the text left or right of the text, first it is not shown either, but if i move the whole button below the critial position and then up again it is suddendy show. Still in same cases the line was shown thinner.
I moved the selected line from next to the text back to under the text while the button is in the upper range and -bang- the subpicture is not shown again. I did all those changes in Encore design view.
Marcus
Show Selected subpictures (the underline is also shown when it is under the text):
Button selected with subpicture below of button text:
Button selected with subpicture left of button text:
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