I need help with a button animation!

Hi,
I hope someone can help with a simple-looking problem which
nonetheless has me stumped!
I have a feeling that I've missed something obvious.
I've created a movie clip to act as a button (I've called it
"abs_button") and placed it on the stage.
My main movie has one frame.
Within the "abs_button" movie clip there are 5 layers.
Labels, actions, default button state, rollover state and rollout
state.
Technically, default button state, rollover state and rollout
state could be on the same layer as they don't overlap, but I've
given each animation its own layer for clarity.
FRAME 01.
Default button state is one frame with a graphic of the
button. Just a label at the start ("abs_up") and a "stop();" action
at the end.
FRAME 02 to 31.
Rollover state is a 30 frame animation. Label at start
("abs_over"), "stop()"; action at the end.
FRAME 32 to 62.
Rollout state is a 30 frame animation. Label at start
("abs_out"), "stop()"; action at the end.
All animations were achieved with tweens.
My initial "abs_button" code:
on (release) {
getURL("targetPage.htm", "_self");
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("abs_button", "abs_over");
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay("abs_button", "abs_out");
As it stands, the animation jumps to frame 1 of "abs_out" on
rollout.
I need the "abs_over" animation to always play through to the
end, as the "abs_out" is "abs_over" in reverse (i.e. image grows
large on rollover and shrinks again on rollout.
I've tried for 2 days to solve this, but I clearly need help.
My experiments with variables simply didn't work.
I would be grateful if someone could tell me where I'm going
wrong!
Thanks,
Andy

use this:
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("abs_over");
Since the code is attached directly to the movieclip, you
don't have to
identify the clip. A gotoAndPlay() function takes a frame
number or a
frame label name as its argument, never the name of the clip
that
contains the frame number or name.
Rob
Rob Dillon
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.ddg-designs.com
412.243.9119

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Thanks!
Bill

kglad,
I (think) I followed your instructions. The airplane rotates
fine when the forward button is pressed, but nothing happens when
the backward button is pressed. I’ll describe exactly what I
did, in case I did something wrong.
1. I drew a small dot off stage, made it into a movieclip
object, and gave it the name apMC.
2. On the movieclip timeline, I created a keyframe for each
photo and dragged the photos from the library onto the keyframes. I
placed a stop() code on the first and last movieclip frames.
3. On the main timeline, I created three layers:
“Movieclip”: Onto the first frame of this layer
I copied/pasted the code that you provided.
“Button Labels.”
“Buttons”: I created the forward and backward
buttons, giving them the instance names you suggested.
Any thoughts as to why the backward button doesn’t
work? If you wish, I could send you the .fla file to examine. If
so, let me know where to send it.
Thanks!
Bill

Need help with placing Flash animations in Captivate...

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Need help with Flash CS4 buttons/can't get buttons to control anything

Hello,
I need help with Flash CS4. I am making a banner with an animation (Image change into movie clip "3D Spiral") and added buttons but I cannot get the buttons to control the animation. Please help I am frustrated! If someone could help I would be most appreciated.

Thank you.
Regards,
Michael J. Sheehan allelois
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:48:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Need help with Flash CS4 buttons/can't get buttons to control anything
Hi there
I'm not sure how you wound up where you did. But you wound up in the Adobe Captivate forums. Please stand by as I move your thread to the Flash forums.
Cheers... Rick
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I need help with storage.    5 GB are free.   So iCloud sends an email that I need more.   So I purchase 20GB and now I want to downgrade back to the 5GB.   I can check the 5GB box, but no DONE button appears.   Anyone have an answer?

I Need help with iCloud storage.   5gb are free, so I get an email, that mine is just about full.   So I upgraded to 20gb and now I want to downgrade back to 5gb.
tthe DONE button doesn't highlight, so my requested can't be completed.   Any help will be appreciated.

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Hi, I need help with scrolling

Hello I am Kevin Jin, I am working a huge project acually not that big, but I need help with five things, i mihgt have more things in my mind but here it is
1. I need help with scrolling like where you have buttons for example or press on a navigation bar tab, then it goes to that specific pace of the page, for a one page website, for example some sites you press on contacts and gose down to the bottom of the page where the contacts place is located, not opening a new link.
2.Second also I need help with navigation bar, where it fallows the scroll as it gose down, like for example when it is html the object is fixed to the top, and when you scroll down it will fallow it it,
3.I need Parallex scrolling where you can have the timeline or animations run while you scroll in the meantime and have animation running all the time, for example the infographic site where the bees are fluying but still have seperate animations while you scroll
4.I am so sorry i have two more to go, i appreciate your help, I would also like to ask if like looping each animations sperately, not looping the whole timeline, can it be possible to loop an animation while you have all the interactivity witht he site like looping seperately all the time, without interfeering with all the other animation
5.I also are wondering if you can create multiple pages on one animate project, like multiple pages with html
I just moved on to edge animate from html, and html was also beirf learn for me and mostly i was doing design work, and i thought getting out of graphic river and moving on the theme forest would be a better idea for me, thank you guys so much of the help and add me on skype : kevin2019170 or add me on facebook ; [email protected] or graphicriver, www.graphicriver.net/user/phantomore I would appriciate if you just would like contact me through SNS since I have that in hany 24 hours long, but the thred will also do, thank you doo much foryour help,
P.S, I want also all the five things to work on one aimate project not interfeering with other ideas liek all five questions i had should run on one site,
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP AND I APPRICIATE YOUR HELP!

1.
write this code in your button Click
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Or :
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1 and 2 see this post http://forums.adobe.com/message/5531344#5531344
3 use edge commons plugin http://www.edgedocks.com/edgecommons
4.just put the animations behind eachother so when 1 is done, start with the animating the other symbol/div
5. i thin its best just to make for every page a new project or make the site in muse.

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