Cant figure out how to play a movie clip on mouseover

Question

Hey guys,
I'm a web designer who is wanting to add a touch of flash to his page. I just created a new site that hasnt launched yet. The scene is a city scape with water beneathe. In the water I want to have a fish that bobs up and down slightly on mouseover. I have the movie created and I went through a couple tutorials online, i could only find 2, but neither could help me out.
I know I have to make a button and i just copied the initial stage of the movie and converted that into a button.
What Im trying to create is called a tell target.
Can anyone possibly help? or point to a better tutorial?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

"tell target" is something of Flash from long ago and far away that is best left there... it is nothing related to AS3.
While there may be some working out to manage, here's a general scheme you can start to play with.  Create your animation as a movieclip, placing a stop(); command in the first frame of it and a gotoAndPlay(2); in the very last frame of it.  Place it in the stage and while it's still selected assign it an instance name via the Properties panel (where it says <instance name>)... let's say you name it "fish".
In the same frame as where the fish movieclip lives, but on a different layer for actions, place this code.
fish.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, bobTheFish);
fish.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, stopBob);
function bobTheFish(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     fish.gotoAndPlay(2);
function stopBob(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     fish.gotoAndStop(1);