I've created a button with an looped animation...

... that I want to only play when mousedover, and stop (hide) on mouseout.
Right now it does stop and start once I mouseover the button the first time. But when it loads it's playing not hidden. Here's the code I have at this point:
MouseOver
var mySymbolObject = sym.getSymbol("ButtonSlider");
sym.$("ButtonSlider").css({opacity:1});
MouseOut
var mySymbolObject = sym.getSymbol("ButtonSlider");
sym.$("ButtonSlider").css({opacity:0});
Click
sym.play(0000);
I've tried a hide trigger on the time line with the same code on the buttons, but the ButtonSlider stays hidden.
Thanks for you help in advance.

OK. You need to take off the autoplay in your button annimation. When you create a symbol you have the choice to choose autoplay or not. If you forget to do it at creation when you get the dialog box, you can always remove it later. If you are going to control the timeline of symbols, you need to check autoplay off. I wrote a blog about symbol's scope that will help you:
http://www.edgehero.com/tutorials/scope
So, enter the button annimation (ButtonSlider and double click ButtonAnimPassion and then check off autoplay.
Then you will need to start the animation on your mouseenter and add this line:
Somehow I cannot get it to work on the mouseenter but it works on the click event
sym.$("ButtonSlider").mouseenter(function(){
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sym.$("ButtonSlider").click(function(){
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
class SwingA implements ActionListener
JPopupMenu pop;
JFrame frame;
JPanel panel;
JButton cmdPop;
JDialog dlgFrame;
int times_clicked = 0;
     public static void main(String[] args)
     SwingA A=new SwingA();
     SwingA()
                try
          UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
                  frame=new JFrame("PopUp");
                  frame.setSize(600,480);
                  frame.setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
                  pop=new JPopupMenu();
                  cmdPop=new JButton("Click");
                 cmdPop.addActionListener(this);
               JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("First");
               JMenuItem item1 = new JMenuItem("Second");
               pop.add(item);
               pop.add(item1);
                 panel=new JPanel();
                  panel.add(cmdPop);
                  frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
                  frame.setVisible(true);
          catch(Exception E)
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent source)
       pop.show(cmdPop, cmdPop.getWidth(), 0);
}

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