Button in a movie

I made a movie with a couple of buttons and I was wandering
how to make this buttons jump 1 frame in the main timeline. I know
is possible but I don't know how .
Tx

Refer to MovieClip.nextFrame() method in the Flash help
file

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Hi all,
I need step by step instruction on how to attech control buttons to a movie clip.
I imported the .MOV clip (a 3D rotation) into the library, and I would like to be able to control where the rotation stops, by use of a slider or clicking a button. Can some one please tell me how to do this in an easy way if possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated so much.
Many thanks,

drag your movieclip to the stage and assign it an instance name, say movMC. create your button and give it an instance name, say btn. you can then use:
btn.onRelease=function(){
movMC.gotoAndStop(your frame label or number here);

Problems coding a button within a movie clip to navigate scenes

Hello there! I've got another probably noobish question to ask about CS6.
My goal is very similar to the one mentioned in this previously discussed forum question: http://forums.adobe.com/message/837995#837995 and also in this question http://forums.adobe.com/message/4172919#4172919
I am attempting to make a button inside a movie clip in my first scene go when clicked to the first frame of my second scene. I named the button's instance menu_button_1 and I believe Scene 1 and Scene 2 are the names of the scenes. (If they should have special names or instance names, I did not see where to type them.) Because of the similarities, I attempted to follow the suggestions on those pages. However I probably did some small thing wrong, (Or heck, maybe a huge thing.) which I what I'd like help with to find.
stop();
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This seemed to be what was suggested to enter. I attempted to modify it to work for me as well. This is what I typed for the button's action.
menu_button_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
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gotoAndPlay(1, "Scene 2");
(I removed the stop function because I have music looping in the movie clip that I want to play until the mouse is clicked.) (Also, I picked gotoandplay because I wanted scene 2 to start playing immediately when clicked rather than stopping.)
I tried variations, including "2" instead of "scene 2" and whatnot. I also tried linking it to differnet places just to see if that would work. It seems like it could link if I only asked for a frame within the movie clip itself, but it couldn't go to any other frames in scene 1 or scene 2. When I attempt, this message is displayed in the output:
ArgumentError: Error #2108: Scene 2 was not found.
    at flash.display::MovieClip/gotoAndPlay()
    at interactivestgermant_fla::menu_1/clickHandler()
It seems it cannot find my Scene 2. (It also cannot seem to find Scene 1 when I prompt it to do that.) I'm afraid I'm not sure of what I've entered incorrectly, though I'd imagine it involves how I typed the scene navigation. Should it have an instance name or something? I'd very muchappreciate a push in the right direction. If you need any more info I'll be happy to provide it. Thanks for the help! I very much appreciate it.

I bet you're absolutely right. However I am not sure how I am misnaming it, as to my ametuer eyes, it seems to be entered properly into the properties box? It does show up as "menu" written in white over the keyframes and also in the properties slot. I can include some images here to help out in correcting me.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-1-395704638   This image shows my movie clip. This seems to be the problem it's having, identifying "menu." Did I do that incorrectly? It looks to be in order.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-2-395704633 This is inside of the movie clip named menu. You can see I did the same to name the button menu_button_1.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-3-395704627   This shows the action I gave to menu_button_1 in which I attempt to have it naviagte to Scene 1 frame 493.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-4-395704623 This shows where I'd like the button to go to. (It is hard to tell if that's frame 493 or 492. I figured that it should be ok either way and if this frame is 492 then it's easily changed once I get the darn thing working in general) (Also, I named the layer "peanuts." I tired entering the name "peanuts" as well but it didn't seem to work either, so I figured "493" is easier since I know that you can go to a specific frame by doing gotoandplay("scene 1" , #) and I'm not sure if it requires any additional stuff to go to a name.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-5-395704687    These are the errors I get. I totally agree with you- It seems very much to be an issue of getting it to recognize the "menu." However I am unsure where I named something wrong. Is this enough info to help you perhaps point out where that is?

Button within a movie clip not working

Hiya,
I have a movie clip within my swf website that is basically
an icon that you roll over to produce the menu. The movie clip has
coding inside it to produce the rollover effect. This is as
follows:
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rollover them will not work when pressed. I am trying to get them
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on (release) {
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_parent should be correct, I've tried it without and with
_parent._parent however still it has no effect. From what I can see
everything should be working fine.
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you can't assign mouse handlers to a parent movieclip and
expect a child movieclip to respond to mouse events: the parent
will intercept those events.
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generation movieclips or use a hitTest() for one of the
generations.

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The movie was imported using the import wizard in flash 8. I
did not add a skin because when I tried adding it , the skin would
not show through once I imported the finished swf file in
Trainersoft. ONly the movie would come through. So, then I decided
to add my own playback buttons to the movie. I imported the movie
again using the import wizard, i did not select a skin. The movie
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action scripting to the buttons, i preview movie and the buttons
appear correctly but nothing happens when I click each of the
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First, create your play button. Click on it, and open up the
Properties Panel (Shift + F3). Type in:
play_btn for the <Instance Name>.
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Click on the first frame of the Actions layer, and open up the
Actions panel (F9).
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stop();
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Controlling the main time line of a movie via a button within a movie on a different level.

Hi there!
I have two movie is two different levels,
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top of this into level 10.
Once the user clicks onto a button within the movie on level
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midi_ie wrote:
> Hi there!
> I have two movie is two different levels,
> Level 5 is my base movie and I am loading another movie
on top of this into
> level 10.
> Once the user clicks onto a button within the movie on
level 10, I would like
> the animation in level 5 to stop (the animation runs on
the main root timeline
> of level 5).
>
> Once the user clicks on a different button within the
movie on level 10, I
> would like the animation on the main timeline of the
movie in level 5 to start
> again from the point where it previously left off.
> Is this possible?
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Problems with button inside draggable movie clip

I am building a click through presentation that has some small text in it. To maintain the design and allow for readability, I have added a zoom feature.
Here is the structure of the movie,
Stage - contains pages movie clip and forward/reverse click buttons for changing pages
pages_mc - contains 24 frames, one page per frame and buttons
There is a button at the _root level that uses a tweener to scale the pages_mc up to 170%. When this is clicked, it allows the pages to be dragged around the screen so you can look at different sections. When you click the button again, it returns the pages back to their original size stops drag.
My problem is, on the pages, there are buttons with links to external sites. Once startDrag has been invoked, I cannot touch the buttons inside the movie clip. Is there a way to make these buttons work?
I need the finished quickly so any assistance is welcome.
Code below
magUp_btn.onRelease = function() {
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TweenLite.to(pages_mc, .25, {_x:-250, _y:-193, _xscale:170, _yscale:170});
TweenLite.to(magUp_mc, .75, {_alpha:0});
TweenLite.to(magDown_mc, .75, {_alpha:25});
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Run Button inside a movie effect outside a movie

hi
I am working in flash 8 on Windows XP. I am creating a US Map
Project . Under which when i mouse over on a particular US-state
it's size is increased. I did it by using a movie clip. I made such
moive clip's for each state of USA.
Now my requirement is when i mouse over on a particular US
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information about that location should be shown.
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till here it works fine. But for further spots for locations
i made button in each moive.
Now when i mouseover on movie it gives me desired results.
But when i try to click on the button
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Please Urgent Help is required .

Inderdeep wrote:
> hi
> I am working in flash 8 on Windows XP. I am creating a
US Map Project . Under
> which when i mouse over on a particular US-state it's
size is increased. I did
> it by using a movie clip. I made such moive clip's for
each state of USA.
> Now my requirement is when i mouse over on a particular
US State it must grow
> its size. and further it must have few spots on that
movie. on which when user
> clicks a small panel with some information about that
location should be shown.
>
> For this i made a movie for each US State. and set mouse
over event .
> on(rollover){
> mcName.gotoAndPlay(2);
> }
> till here it works fine. But for further spots for
locations i made button in
> each moive.
>
> Now when i mouseover on movie it gives me desired
results. But when i try to
> click on the button
> inside that movie. It doesnt work.
>
> Please Urgent Help is required .
The problem with flash is that you can't nest button within
button even tho it is
in a movie clip. You need to use movie clips instead. In that
movie, on first frame
you have stop(); action and the button with roll over action
to jump frame which
has the OVER state content. Than from there you have more
buttons to branch out the
tree.
Best Regards
Urami
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2. Try the Firefox SafeMode. <br />
''A troubleshooting mode, which disables most Add-ons.''
''(If you're not using it, switch to the Default Theme.)''
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# Or use the Help menu item, click on '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' while Firefox is running. <br />
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http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Simple Button to Control Movie Clip

Hello,
I was relatively comfortable with AS 2.0, but am having a
hard time warming up to 3.0. I feel that this should be something
simple to find help online with, yet I'm finding it difficult to
get a simple answer.
I have a button that is inside a movie clip within another
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whoButton.addEventListener(
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I have another movie clip on the main timeline that I would
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blackFadeBottom_mc
What would the code look like for this?
Any help is appreciated - Thank you.

Thanks, I was able to place the code on the main timeline and
get a trace when I clicked on the movie clip instance itself. I
probably didn't explain what I was trying to do very well, so I
apologize.
What I need to do is to control this movie clip that is
physically placed on the main timeline (fadeBlackBottom) with the
button that is buried under two other movie clips
(mainMenu_mc>whoBtn_mc>whoBtn).
I would like the whoBtn to tell the fadeBlackBottom movie
clip to (what used to be)
_root.fadeBlackBottom.gotoAndPlay("play"); This will drop down a
box that will contain the content of my 'Who' link.
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I have a flash movie that runs as a standalone player on a
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when the user is done viewing the flash movie they can click on a
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install file.
Anyhelp would be great... even a link to an example... or
anything... thanks
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fscommand("exec","myexe.exe");
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fscommand
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located.
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There's some information here.
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I am using Flex Developer and I am designing a Flash Lite app
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as a button to the stage from code. Do I need to buy a tool to do
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E.g. in AS3 you create the button object then do an
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