OnRollOver / onRelease

I guess the easiest way to explain what I want to do is by
showing you what I've done so far:
here
Three things happen on this:
-when you rollover the thumbnails the "experience" that it
relates to lights up at the bottom.
-when you click on an "experience" the thumbnails that have
that experience light up.
-when you hit "reset" no thumbnails are selected.
My problem occurs when you choose an "experience" (and
selected thumbnails light up and others are disabled).
If you RollOver the selected thumbnails that correspond to
that "experience" they return to their original state (i.e.,
alpha=40).
I want them to stay on alpha=100 until the user presses
another "experience" or hits "reset."
My code is really long (not great at Flash, so not sure if it
could be shorter), but the same for each category of buttons.
Here's an example for one of the "experience" buttons:
interact_btn.onRelease = function(){
read_btn._alpha = 40;
see_btn._alpha = 40;
watch_btn._alpha = 40;
listen_btn._alpha = 40;
interact_btn._alpha = 100;
r1_btn._alpha = 40;
r2_btn._alpha = 40;
r3_btn._alpha = 40;
r4_btn._alpha = 40;
s1_btn._alpha = 40;
s2_btn._alpha = 40;
w1_btn._alpha = 40;
w2_btn._alpha = 40;
w3_btn._alpha = 40;
w4_btn._alpha = 40;
l1_btn._alpha = 40;
l2_btn._alpha = 40;
i1_btn._alpha = 100;
i2_btn._alpha = 100;
i3_btn._alpha = 100;
i4_btn._alpha = 100;
r1_btn.enabled = false;
r2_btn.enabled = false;
r3_btn.enabled = false;
r4_btn.enabled = false;
s1_btn.enabled = false;
s2_btn.enabled = false;
w1_btn.enabled = false;
w2_btn.enabled = false;
w3_btn.enabled = false;
w4_btn.enabled = false;
l1_btn.enabled = false;
l2_btn.enabled = false;
i1_btn.enabled = true;
i2_btn.enabled = true;
i3_btn.enabled = true;
i4_btn.enabled = true;
Here's an example for one of the thumbnails:
r1_btn.onRollOver = function(){
this._alpha = 100;
read_btn._alpha = 100;
r1_btn.onRollOut = function(){
this._alpha = 40;
read_btn._alpha = 40;
Thanks for your help.

create a variable...
var allowRollOut = true;
When you click one of the links at the bottom, set that
variable to... = false;
allowRollout = false;
Inside your rollOut function...
r1_btn.onRollOut = function(){
if(allowRollOut){
this._alpha = 40;
read_btn._alpha = 40;
And set it back to true with whatever resets things.
That's just a general solution offering, though it may be all
you need. I can't tell from what I know of what you showed.

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Changing onRollOver etc

Hi there,
My application has some different states and depending upon
the state i want the onRollOver, onRelease and onRollOut of my
movie clips to either be doing something or doing nothing. The
doing something part is fine, but if I switch to want them to do
nothing they are still making the little hand appear over them. How
would I remove this.
I am guessing making them use AS2 events would be one way,
but my application doesn't really call for this, is there a way to
do it?
Thankyou,
Nathan Wallis

If I could, I would like to get further clarification on
this. I tried using the useHandCursor = false as you suggested in
some code containing dynamic mc's. Where in the code would you
place this? Is it part of the mc function? at the top? I just cant
get it to work.
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Problem with onRelease and onRollOver

onRelease doesn't do anything in the following.
background._visible = false;
area.onRollOver = function() {
background._visible = true;
background.onRollOut = function() {
background._visible = false;
background.item.onRelease = function() {
trace('ok');
I've tried using delete this.onRollOver, but that didn't seem
to do much either in this case. How would I go about accomplishing
what I want?

even easier then, just ace the tween, and use the _visible
property to turn it off and on in the postition you set it. The
trick is to make certain that it's part of the main menu tab, so
that the hitTest checks all of the area of that menu section, if it
does not register a hit, then it will close up. This lets the other
buttons in the sub-mc recieve event notifications, like kg was
saying above.

OnRollOver = onRollOut equivalent

I'm looking to condense some code on a photo gallery I'm
working on where I disable the next or previous buttons if there
isn't a next or previous image to present. I wanted to break away
from the standard multiple line approach...
nextBTN_mc.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
nextBTN_mc.onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
nextBTN_mc.onRelease = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
or
nextBTN_mc.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
nextBTN_mc.onRollOut = nextBTN_mc.onRollOver;
nextBTN_mc.onRelease = nextBTN_mc.onRollOver;
Once upon a time (and I'm not sure where), I saw someone post
a one line solution to this. Something like (but not):
nextBTN_mc.onRollOver([{'onRollOut', 'onRelease'}]) =
function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
The syntax on the above is of course wrong but the solution I
saw once was similar to this. The "([{'onRollOut', 'onRelease'}])"
(or similar) may have been after the function parameters and there
is probably an operator that I'm forgetting/missing. I've played
around with it and searched the net but can't seem to get it to
work or find it.
Anyways, if anyone out there knows the solution, I'd really
appreciate a response. It was a very clever, clean and condensed
solution and I'd love to find it again.
Take care,
sej

sej,
> Hey blemmo,
>
> Thanks for the response. That's pretty cool solution.
> I never thought of that one.
blemmo's reply is a good one, and I often use that approach
when dealing
with two or three assignments at a time. When it gets up to
five or more --
purely arbitrary numbers -- I also like to use a for() loop
and the array
access operator.
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/actionscript-20/reference-objects-dynamically
var buttons:Array = new Array("btnA", "btnB", "btnC");
for (var n:Number = 0; n < buttons.length; n++) {
this[buttons[n]].onRelease = function() {
// instructions here
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Movieclip onRelease

Hi everyone
my problim is:
I change my cursor with othe movielip and i want, when i
rollOver to movieclip wich one has function release, my cursors's
movieclip make something.
How to catch wich movieclip has onRelease function?
Thanks

if you wanted to add this function to all MCs you could do
something like that, maybe, not sure if you can prototype an 'on'
handler. But doing it with a prototype you would still need to add
the prototype call to each MC/button. However, if all the
MC/buttons are within another MC you could do something like this
(where MC is the name of the 'master' container):
for(var name in MC) {
if(typeof (MC[name]) == 'movieclip') {
MC[name].onRollOver = function() {
//the cursor change code here and other functions
you can use 'this' instead of 'MC' but it would apply to all
MCs throughout the doc.

OnRelease Behaviour

Hi, ive been building a fairly large flash app and have
realised that i cant click on my movieclip buttons more than once
without first moving the mouse.
When i test the swf locally i can repeatedly click on my
movieclips and fire the onRelease handler over and over. As soon as
i view the swf in a browser ( IE or firefox ) i find that i have to
move the mouse between clicks.
I tried to isolate the cause by building a seperate fla with
a moviclip with onRelease onRollOver and onRollOut handlers but
this worked fine both locally and in the browser. Next i copied the
movieclip into a new layer in my original app and the movieclip
inherited the clicking issue when running in the browser.
When i first rollover the movieclip the hand symbol appears,
when i click I see the normal arrow cursor appear whilst i am still
holding the mouse button down. When i release the button the hand
cursor reappears but clicking then only works once i move the
mouse.
Im using Flash 8 and publishing as a Flash 8 movie. My
browsers have flash player 9 installed.
Anybody have any ideas as to what might be happening here, im
fairly puzzled.
Thanks

It is a strange behaviour because a second ago it happened on
the version online and now it doesnt happen anymore.
If you try
http://www.geretti.com/help/weird.swf
it works just fine, if you compile it it doesnt.
It's not just a problem that occurs within the flash 8
editor, but it happens online too of course. But the weird.swf
doesnt have that issue when used online or outside flash 8. I tried
this on several different computers and connections, but not on MAC
environment

Problems Overriding setInterval with Button onRelease

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escape the flipping between Frame 1 and 2 and jump to Frame 5. My
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function out(){
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Sincerely,
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unless your frame is labeled with the string 5, you should
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OnRelease, loops, level10 v level10.button ???

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and no longer knows what button called it. It's the same as if I
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on(release) in the actions panel.
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timeline (which it is), and not as if it's set down in the button?
It would be really handy if I could use the for loop, and not have
to call 26 separate onReleases. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Try this blur tween, onRollOver and RollOut..

Hello,
I ff you roll over the first button (red one) ..it will
increase in size and decrease in Size when roll out.
This goes well, but when you do it to soon, the startsize is
to big. Is there a way to get the value of the current
size when use the RollOut function?
Also the blur value when tracing this does not work very well
on the rollout. Sometimes it jumps from 10 to 0 ..
it should work from 10, to 9, 8, 7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 ..
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doing it the right way.
If you place 3 movieclips on your stage and call there
instance names:
rood_mc
oranje_m;
groen_mc
and copy this code :
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import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
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var speedknop:Number = 2; // 30 frames per seconden.
var seconden:Boolean = true; // flase = gebruik frames
p/seconden
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Playing different Movie Clips onRollover?

I have several buttons that I would like to play different
movie clips
onrollover on the stage. So if button 1 is rolled over it
plays a clip
in the lower right corner and when rolled off it stops and if
button 2
is rolled over it does the same.
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myStop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopMc);
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them
display until the button is rolled over?
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modified from
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> assign a rollover listener to button 1 and in its
listener function apply the play() method to your right corner
movieclip. likewise for button 2.

Simple onRollOver code no longer works?

I'm really starting to hate AS3. I'm a basic user and I was
BASCIALLY just starting to get the hang of AS2 when Adobe had to go
start changing things with AS3.
grrrr...
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I have constructed a simple example below to try and help you
mate, ignore all the button building bit if you don't need it, it
is for the example only... Go through it and try and impliment into
your workings, to be honest, events in AS3 are easier than AS2,
just gotta get your head around it.
Simply attach you event listener to your mc, state the event
object type i.e mouse event, then property i.e. MOUSE_OVER, then
the event handler, the method with all the functionality to run on
mouse over...
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Simon

Questions about buttons: onRelease and on(release)

I have been experimenting with buttons lately and am trying to use a function that uses the release mouse event. I was a little confused at first, since I found some tutorials that used onRelease() and some that used on(release) {...can somebody explain the differences to these and how to use either of them?

if you're using as2, both onRelease and on(release) can be used. on(release) is attached to the button or movieclip (highly undesirable) and onRelease is attached to a frame using the button/movieclip's instance name:
// if your objects instance name is your_btn:
your_btn.onRelease=function(){
// code here
if you're using as3, neither will work.

Dynamicaly create onRelease event

Hello,
I got a problem with dynamicaly assigning the onRelease event on my buttons.
I got about 45 buttons and I don't want to create 300 lines of code just to create each of the onRelease events on them so I thought about using a loop (for) to pass through them and assigning the onRelease event. This is what I got and thought would work:
for (var s = 1; s <= _global.NB_SECTIONS; s++) // NB_SECTIONS = 42
    this["btnSalle" + s].onRelease = function(){
        trace(s); // Returns 43
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Unfortunately, it does go to "salle" (which is a frame), but the CURRENT_SECTION variable is always set to 43! I can't understand why it would give me 43 on any of the section buttons I click (which ranges from 1 to 42). Any idea how I could make this work? I don't like having too much codes in my Flash (I've been using a hell load of loops to make it cleaner).
Thanks!

The value of s is not assigned to the buttons, variable is coded into the functions and the function use the value of s at its current value when clicked, not when you assign it in the function.
If those are button symbols, then you can use their _name(s) to determine the value you are looking for since the _name(s) carry the value you want...
for (var s = 1; s <= _global.NB_SECTIONS; s++) // NB_SECTIONS = 42
    this["btnSalle" + s].onRelease = function(){
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        _global.CURRENT_SECTION = Number(String(this._name).substr(8));
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If they are movieclips used as buttons, then you could assign the s value to a variable ofeach movieclip and use that variable in the functions.

Animated drop-down menu buttons won't respond onRelease

I created a drop-down menu movie clip. Within it are multiple
buttons which change their alpha values. I'm having an impossible
time of getting the buttons to respond to an onRelease from the
maintimeline.
for instance:
stop();
_root.menu_mc.print_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop("print1");
_root.menu_mc.illustration_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop("illustration1");
I can't place any code directly on the buttons because later
in the timeline the actionscript needs to change for the same
buttons:
stop();
_root.menu_mc.print_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop("print2");
_root.menu_mc.illustration_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop("illustration2");
}

i don't think so. Sorry for my ignorance, but the code you
see is basically the only code I have in the movie.
menu_mc is located directly on the maintime line. Inside of
menu_mc are the buttons. If I place a button instance inside of
menu_mc (and there are not multiple instances of it) I can use an
onRelease and it works fine.
I can create an invisible button, place it over the animated
button and get the onRelease to work, however, since the buttons
are rollovers, I loose the animation with the invisible button
covering them up. I can't seem to target multiple instances of the
same button in the movieclip. is there any way around this?

Can we make array of movieclip and use as onrelease function

var gold:Array = [g1,g2,g3,g4,g5,g6,g7,g8,g9,g10,g11,g12,g13,g14,g15,g16,g17,g18,g19,g20];
and
gold.onRelease=function(){
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          this.gotoAndStop(2);
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          this.enabled=false;

var gold:Array = [g1,g2,g3,g4,g5,g6,g7,g8,g9,g10,g11,g12,g13,g14,g15,g16,g17,g18,g19,g 20];
and
for(var i:Number=0;i<gold.length;i++){
gold[i].onRelease=function(){
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