Flash Buttons (Up, Over, Down, Hit)

Recently I am feeling like an idiot in Flash with buttons! I think perhaps I am forgetting something about the up, over, down, and hit states.
What I am trying to do is to have the button color change to a different color when it is on the page. The color only changes when I roll over it or hit it.
Once I am on the page it changes back to the color it is on the up state.
Example: http://www.somethingfab.me/ (When you are on the home page the button is red, but when on the about page the home button changes to white to show hierarchy.)

Chances are those are movieclip symbols, not button symbols. You cannot force a button to stay in the over state when it is not in that state interactively. AS3 allows one to change the different state's appearances such that you could turn the up state into looking like the over state, but you end up having to juggle things and need to have a normal up state visual at the ready to restore it when the time comes... easier to just use movieclips.

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Greetings,
Coyke

in your library panel, you double click on your button symbol and your see what? nothing? the button "timeline"? something else?

Flash button play over sound in both over and down states?

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Here's what I did as a test:
In an empty Flash9/ActionScript3 project:
1. Create a new button symbol
2. Insert key frames for up/down/over/hit
3. Draw a rect on each of those keyframes (just for testing
purposes so you can see it)
4. Go to over state and set the Sound property to a sound in
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I'm trying to create a flash button so that it can toggle
between "Sound On" and "Sound Off" but I feel like I'm doing
something wrong and it errors out on me.
I have a button on stage as, and in my up/over/down/hit in
different colors I have a dynamic text field identified as
sound_txt.
Here's the script I have so far for my frame:
stop();
mutebtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,muteDo);
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} else {
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TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no
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at buttontst_fla::MainTimeline/muteDo()
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no
properties.
at buttontst_fla::MainTimeline/muteDo()
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I tried bringing the textfield out of the button but while it
worked when I pressed the button portion that is not under the
text, it was the part of the text that got in the way from doing
anything. I wonder where I can find an existing example that works
the way I want it too so I can at least follow that example. I
think I tried making the dynamic text a movie clip but was still
getting similar errors.
Edit: I at least got it to work by converting the button into
a movie clip although I had also wanted it so that I could also
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etc.

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Hello,
Try this and see if it works
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wmode="transparent"
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I have searched and searched and I can't find a solution.
In Flash CC, creating in an Actionscript 3.0 canvas, buttons work as expected. Up, Over, Down and Hit states produce desired results.
I am creating an HTML5 animated webpage and none of the buttons work as expected. Here are the flaws:
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I have searched the web. A lot of people have this problem but no answers have surfaced. I don't particularly want to spend another 100 hours recreating in Edge Animate--which I am not as familiar with. Is there some code that might stop all the madness?

You can program using java script in flash.
use the code
exportRoot.stop();
inside the button frame
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Thanks.

Hi,
I know this was posted a while ago but I came across your post looking for an answer for the same thing.
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J

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SOLVED.

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I appreciate anyone that can help.

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Hi there,
I just wanted to know how to put Hyperlinks into Flash Button
symbols
For example;
I have a button which is named Home, and i have the UP, OVER,
DOWN and HIT stages and wanted to put a
Hyperlink to lets say Google so www.google.com.au and wanted
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I know very little Actionscript, but know what it is and
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I am using Adobe CS3 Flash 9 and would prefer a simple
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Hi,
There is a video tutorial for this on my website below.
Hope this helps.
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