Movie within a button

Within a movie, if you mouseover a button, another clip plays
(spinning DVD). However, when you continue to mouseover the button
and reach the spinning DVD inside the button, it disappears. When
you click on the area where the spinning DVD is suppose to be at,
it appears and will be allowed to be dragged and dropped into a DVD
Player to launch a movie clip (flv). Why does mouseover a clip make
it disappear when it is visible during mouseover the button? The
spinning DVD is inside the button area. Thanks in advance for your
help. I'm in the U.S. Army and there is no one else to turn too.
PLEASE HELP :(

TNchicklet,
> Within a movie, if you mouseover a button, another clip
> plays (spinning DVD). However, when you continue to
> mouseover the button and reach the spinning DVD inside
> the button, it disappears.
What is the "it" that disappears -- the DVD, maybe the
button?
> When you click on the area where the spinning DVD is
> suppose to be at, it appears and will be allowed to be
> dragged and dropped into a DVD Player to launch a
> movie clip (flv).
Okay. I *think* I know what you're after, but there are a
number of
ways to accomplish what you've described in Flash, so it
would definitely
help if you could explain your steps. :)
> Why does mouseover a clip make it disappear when it is
> visible during mouseover the button?
This depends greatly (entirely?) on how your clip and button
are built.
> The spinning DVD is inside the button area. Thanks in
> advance for your help.
When you say "inside the button area" do you mean inside one
of the
frames of the button symbol itself?
I'm happy to help you out, but we're going to need to break
this down
into clear sub-goals -- then we'll knock each one out, in
turn. :)
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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