Change the look of a button during the timeline?

In web design, you usually define a CSS style for a navigation link, which will appear when the user is currently on that page. So if I was on the "about" page, the "about" link in the navigation would be highlighted red, for example.
I'm trying to do the same thing with a button in Flash. When a user clicks the button ("on(release)"), it will take them to another frame in the timeline, and, the look of the button will change to let the user know they are currently on that frame. I thought I could do this by adding a keyframe at the destination frame, then going into the button and changing the "up" frame. Sadly, that doesn't work, as it changes the "up" frame for the button everywhere.
Then I tried a movie clip instead, but I can't use on(release) with that. I'm sure I'm missing something here...any suggestions? Thanks!

To use the movieclip you need to give it an instance name and assign code to it in the timeline... For instance, if you gave it an instance name of mcName, then you would place the following actionscript in the timeline where the button is (preferably ina separate actions layer)...
mcName.onRelease = function(){
// whatever is done

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Did you shoot it in DV codec? Not HDV?
In that case, I might suggest you do your whole edit in DV,
export it using the same settings,
then use Compressor to recompress in whatever codec you need to deliver.
That way you can focus on the edit and play with compression settings at the end.
Check this wisdom:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/when_to_staynative.html
If you shot it in HDV, then you should stay in HD until the end,
although editing will probably be easier if you convert to ProRes,
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There seems to be 5 second limit on the duration of the timeline in Photoshop version 2014.
How can you extend the duration of the animation? There's a timeline window, but no "animation" window as mentioned in many of the help files.
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Thanks for the reply, but my point was not about the lack of creating animations.
It seems that in Photoshop CC, you cannot change the duration of the timeline unless you click on the end of a clip and drag it out which will then give you more time. As the original post mentioned, you automatically get a 5 second duration unless you have a video clip that is of longer time. This all makes sense for videos, I understand that nobody (usually) wants to stretch video. Video by nature will extend the timeline based on how much footage is present.
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I was only half-correct. In PrPro, there is a drop-down menu, while in PrE, it's a toggle through the three possible display states:
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Hello,
Here is the problematic:
1° How can i change the color of the text on a button in Roll Over or Click state (Cs5.5)
- I've many button in a doc im creating
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- what should i do?
5° Once i export it into Swf. how how can i visualize it? or put it online?
Thank you for your time.

stlbbl4u wrote:
Hello,
Here is the problematic:
1° How can i change the color of the text on a button in Roll Over or Click state (Cs5.5)
- I've many button in a doc im creating
- the color of the buttons is white with black stoke & black text
- in roll over state i want them to inverse the color coding (the text white & bottom black)
- currently the text becomes invisible as black on black cant be seen (ive stroked it white but that looks ugly)
- i would just like to know if there is a function made for this?
You should setup Object Styles - these can also include Paragarph Styles that can be triggered when the Style is selected.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WS5CEDB81A-0011-4dc9-9DE8-AC7AD4C80076a.html
My other questions:
2° Ive a presentation on which Ive created buttons which tigger pop-up animations
- i have 5 buttons which trigger animations
- the viewer can chose to Click on any of the buttons randomly
- the problem is once the animation is open how can it be close... either:
a) by it self after "40" seconds
b) when ther viewer clicks another button
I'm not sure what you mean - I don't do files with Animations
3° Ive created buttons linking pages..- "go to page xxx"
- when i do a preview and click on the buttons the links dont take me to the right pages
- is that normal? (maybe in preview its suppose to be like that)
Does it work properly when you export it to the finished file?
4° I would like to intergrate YouTube videos in the presentation so they play inside the docment.. when i tried.. it said the 'link isnt a flash video'- what should i do?
InDesign won't link directly to youtube videos. I think your best bet would be to use Downloader to download the video and embed them directly in Indesign.
5° Once i export it into Swf. how how can i visualize it? or put it online?
Thank you for your time.
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The attribute you used is about the "label" of the button.
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