Button rollover issue

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If anyone is bored, I'm having a problem with a rollover
issue in the above movie that I have been creating. It is an
interactive, navigable map of city parks. Rollover of the
individual dots marking park locations on the map works fine. But I
am also trying to list all the parks' names on the right, where you
see the "Bergen Park" button. This is so that the user can either
mouse over the map locations and see the park name
OR
find where the park is located by mousing over the park name
on the right. I want this "Bergen Park" button to cause a section
of the movie clip that has an instance name of "bergen" to play,
making the Bergen Park dot on the map enlarge when the "Bergen
Park" button is moused over. I thought that this actionscript would
do it:
on (rollOver) {
_root.bergen.gotoAndPlay("11");
on (rollout) {
_root.bergen.gotoAndPlay("19");
But it is not working when the movie loads. Only if I mouse
over the Bergen Golf Course dot on the map does the "Bergen Park"
button start acting like a button. Otherwise it just gives me a
text cursor when I mouse over the "Bergen Park" button. Any help
would be much appreciated!
Kevin

Answer 1

had a look at your fla and didn't quite work out exactly what
was "working fine" for you. a few comments on your code:
1. don't you need a stop action on frame 92 ? otherwise it
continues looping.
2. flash is case sensitive - be careful of this - on
(rollout) might work even though the correct syntax is on(rollOut),
but this is because the on handler is ancient syntax (pre dot
syntax). most flash syntax requires you to have the syntax
case-correct.
3. Why is each of your dot clips inside a group? They were
very difficult to find. I can't think of a reason for them to be
inside groups, so I'd recommend selecting all of them and breaking
the group apart so that you can see where they are!
4. The way you've structured your flash file has redundancy
and is going to be a nightmare to make changes to. Imagine if you
or your client decides that they want the dot to pulse twice when
you rollover it. You're going to have to make that small change 42
times. Or even imagine if a URL changes for one of the buttons.
There is a unique line of action-script to open that URL on every
key-frame within the dot movie-clip. so changing a URL would
require making that change on 6 keyframes, let alone the park name
reference to it that you are building on the right. The minimum I
would suggest you do is to have only one movieclip which contains
the animation of the dot pulsing, and then for you to put the
button event handlers on those movieclips, rather than inside those
movieclips. There are even better ways you could go about this, (by
storing the urls and titles in arrays, or even xml, and then
placing the event handlers on the movieclips via their instance
names on one frame of action-script), but this would at least
remove your redundancy.
5. but i digress... to return to your question - the text
cursor appears not when you point to the bergen park button but
when you point to the area between {2, 0} and {502, 20}, because
this is where you created a dynamic text field:
_root.ToolTip.createTextField("TipText", 2, 2, 0, 500, 20);
_root.ToolTip.TipText.type = "dynamic";
add this line after the above code:
_root.ToolTip.TipText.selectable=false;
and your problem should be fixed...