How to have button in down state as page opens

Question

On opening a new "blank" subsidiary page using "getURL",
there are 2 buttons on the new page. Each button plays a moveclip.
(The first movieclip is already playing as the new page opens). I'd
like to have the corresponding button already in the down state as
the page opens. Is there a conditional statement I could use for
this? I'm using AS 2.
The code on each button is as follows:
on (release){
_root.resetButtons();
this.gotoAndStop("down");
on (rollOver){
if (this._currentframe <> 3)
this.gotoAndStop("over");
on (rollOut, releaseOutside){
if (this._currentframe <> 3)
this.gotoAndStop("up");
Many thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

Yes, but you'll have to make a bunch of changes. If you
convert your buttons to movieClips and insert frame labels and
actions, you can get the resulting movieClip to act as a button.
Then you can tell one of the button/movieClips to
gotoAndStop("_over"). It will then start that way and then work
normally after it is used. Look at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00000230.html,
for more information using a movieClip as a button.
Alternately, you could just put in a static graphic of the
button's over state in place of the button until it should show
normally, then swap out the graphic for an actual button.