Buttons and Action Script 3 in Flash CS4

Hi, I am new to Flash. I am working on creating a photo gallery and I am having an issue trying to figure out how to add AS3 code to link buttons to a point in a timeline. I have 5 buttons each with an alpha transparency change that works fine and now I want to establish an action on each button that on CLICK will bring up a particular photo in my timeline. Help! Thanks

I can't tell you what is involved with bringing up a photo on your timeline, but to code a button to do something, first you assign it an instance name via the properties panel. Let's say you name it btn1.
Then, normally in layer dedicated to actionscript, in the same frame as that button you assign an event listener and an event handler to go with it...
function btn1Handler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("framelabel"); // or frame number
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Handler);
For that example it shows how to have the button make things move to a different frame in the timeline.

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the animation to play. With the previouse version of flash I would
drag the button onto the stage open the action script window and
start entering the script e.g. on(release){gotoandPlay(5);}
However with the new version I cannot write scripts for the
buttons.... I am confused or am I missing something? Please help me
out.

you're missing actionscript3. and if you don't care to learn
and use it, just use the actionscript2 publish settings and use
actionscript2 coding in your projects.

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1180: Call to a possibly undefined method link1.
Warning: 3594: exec is not a recognized method of the dynamic class RegExp. var r:Object = p.exec(s);
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Message was edited by: gtaylor0406

The way you had your code originally would be correct...
var link_one:link1;
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The 1046 error is indicating it doesn't recognize the link1 class. So the first thing you need to make sure of is that you have assigned the link1 class designation to whatever symbol that is in the library.

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I am using Hibernate with Flex. I have all my model classes
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don't use Granite.
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Hi there,
I have got a problem (or maybe even two) with the dynamic Creation of buttons. The code below creates the buttons.
My main problem is, that the parameter created for the button's action isn't propagated to the assigned event handler. I get a null, though the name of the parameter in the event handler and the name of the parameter added to the action are the same.
Could it also be that I'm always using the same action? I.e. does wdThis.wdGetAddElementAction() always return the same action instance? If yes, how can I create individual actions for each button?
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Heiko
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Hi Heiko,
You have done everything correctly....except for 1 line
in the code...
Replace the following line in your code:
actionAddElement.getActionParameters().addParameter("featureIndex", new Integer(i).toString());
Replace the above line with this code:
button.mappingOfOnAction().addParameter("featureIndex",i);
Actually in your code, you are not associating the parameter with the button...
Note that addParameter(...) comes with two signatures: addParameter(String param, String value) and addParameter(String param, int value). You can use any of them based on yuor need.
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I am creating an Interactive PDF and will be using buttons to show and hide many of the features. I would like to replicate many of the buttons and the actions. However, when I try and copy and paste (or use option) to do this actions attached to the button would not export to the PDF. Is there anything I can do to fix this or accomplish the same thing?

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