Changing button's image

[ewyong]

Hi,

I need help from the experts here. Well, I am not that familiar with Flash Scripting and I need to do some scripting here I think.

I want to create a button with 2 images where when we click on it, the image of the button changes. Something like control buttons to control a movie. When we click on the Pause button, it changes to a Play button, and when click on the Play button, it goes back to the Pause button. Anyone can help me here. Thanks in advance. :)

[sbeener]

here's a way:

make a movie with two frames, one for on, one for off.

select the movie and put this in the actions panel:


onClipEvent(load){
stop();
this.onPress = function(){
this.gotoAndStop(!(this._currentframe-1)+1);
}
}
that'll do it!

[ewyong]

Hi sbeener,

Thanks for the code. It works. I really have alot to learn about Flash Action scripting.

[lostinbeta]

Hey sbeener, you can use button handlers on movie clips as well, so you don't need the this.onPress you can just do

on (press){//stuff}

[sbeener]

great. i guess i'm just set in my ways... ; )

[lostinbeta]

Phew.... I thought you were going to prove me wrong and that your way was better....lol.

I was waiting for it :)

I know I used the method you used, until I accidently put buttons handlers on a movie clip and realized it worked just the same....lol.

[ewyong]

Hi guys,

Well, I tried the code and it works great. But I got one small problem. I tried to put in the control to control a keyframe but I can't stop or play a movie clip.

At the moment, I have a movie clip with some animaitons, and the button that I have created is another movie clip in this movie clip. So, how can I overcome this problem? Thanks again in advance. =)

[lostinbeta]

So your button is actually a movie clip inside a movie clip?

And what you want this button to do is???

Sorry it is 4:15am here, I really need to get to bed (very long day). Maybe sbeener will reply back :)

[Neo_Clone01]

hey lost, i was messin around witht he code as well,
i replaced this.onPress
with
on (Press)

and it said that u cant bundle the on operator

meaning that the onClipEvent (load) and on (press) handlers were conflicting
whats up witht that? hehe

[lostinbeta]

You don't put on (press) inside of the onClipEvent handler you put it as its own handler.