Help With Flash Buttons

Question

Dear Readers
I am puzzled! lol. I was looking at the Radio 1 homepage
today (www.bbc.co.uk/radio1)
Click Here for Link
On the homepage there is a Flash menu with a series of
buttons titled "300 exclusive" and "Groove-y Mix" etc etc.
These buttons finish their loop cycle even though the
mous-out event has occurred.
Does anyone know hoe to make such buttons? If so it would be
greatly helpful.
Well...I hope I haven't lost too many people.
Yours Sincerely
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Answer 1

OK.... make a movie clip. Call it Button or something.
drag it onto your main movie. Select it and add this action:
on (rollOver) {
this.gotoAndPlay("up");
on (rollOut) {
this.gotoAndPlay("down");
on (release) {
getURL("website.html", "_self");
Now, double-click on the movie clip to open it.
Make three layers ("shape", "actions" and "labels" )
Draw a colored box on the "shape" layer (this will be your
button)
on frame 1 put a Stop action on the "actions" layer
on frame 5 put a Frame Label called "up" (no quotation marks)
on the "labels" layer
on Frame 15 put a Stop Action on the "actions" layer
on frame 20 put a Frame Label called "down" on the "labels"
layer
on frame 30 put a Stop action on the "actions" layer
Now select your "shape" layer, click on frame 5 and hit F6,
click on frame 15 and hit F6, click on frame 20 and hit F6, click
on frame 30 and hit F6.
OK...now you need to make some sort of animation happen with
your boxes. From frame 5 to frame 15. and the reverse, from frame
20 to frame 30.
So when the user rolls over the movie clip (that you called
"button"), THIS (the movie clip) will gotoAndPlay the frame called
"up"
and then it will stop playing at Frame 15 where you put a
Stop Action. When the cursor rolls off, THIS will gotoAndPlay
"down" ...
get it? If you don't understand what Frame Labels and Actions
are, then you first need to do the Flash Tutorial.