Full tutorial @ http://myflashportal.blogspot.com/2006/02/...gic-button.html

Hope you enjoy what i shared here, i'm not a pro but i'd i can be a help and likes flash more

Good one..

right now just wondering how expandable are the buttons if each of it had seperate animations like what JunkieG was looking for 1 time. hmm..

erm just swap symbols.. at the swap menu can duplicate.. so when editing the symbolds it didnt effect other's

it's like doing link buttons using <li></li> in css/html. simple n easy. thanks for the tutorial!

This post has been edited by angeldothack: Feb 27 2006, 09:02 PM

simple, not advance

of course, this button is expandable and you can make it how advance you can, of course, it all comes back to your creativity

enjoy!

yup, i mean this tutorial is simple and nice for ppl that want to learn it,
dun make ppl scare by just putting "advance" there.



too many ppl already thinking flash is crap and use alot of bandwidth, but the crap is actually those ppl that dun know how to use and optimise it properly

the purpose of putting advance on the header is to at least encourage people to take up the effort in learn and read up a bit more on the basics of how to use flash more effectively.

And of course, a lot of myth that being thrown to flash previously has been fixed and even suprises a lot of people, if you have seen those great websites lately.

It's not the software that is crappy, but its the person that designs it that bears the responsibilty. I second your point

whoa, thx siaukia, I learnt alot from ur tutorial

now, I can create my buttons more easily with those rocking functions!

hhahahha cool tutorialz
nice .. thanks in advance

thanks dude, that really kept encouraging me to do more ~

Thanks for your effort to come out with this kind of tutorial.
It's only good for fairly newbie.

Since it's nothing [Advance], don't you just put the title as [Step by step] or [Learn * in 60 seconds]?
I think it'll more attractive for a beginner!

haha, thanks for the compliment again,
newbie? its really a subjective opinion though, because you might find yourself explaining rocket science to them about 'functions' and writing A/S to the 'timeline'

so i think it'll still be good for those beginner to take a firm grasp before taking on this, because else they'll end up copying a whole bunch of codes without knowing how to modify and make it work the way they want, a/s is not hard, believe me,

well, to made this more super advance, i will share my way of doing dynamic button/menu. right now, with this method, u still need to write quite alot of scripts. Let say, you have 100 buttons, u will need to

btn1.onrollover ............... btn100.onrollover
btn1.onrollout ............... btn100.onrollout
btn1.onrelease ............... btn100.onrelease

Many way can be use to solve this. First, use Class file, write a generic button behaviour class file and attach it to the button movieclip (right click the button movie clip, and put the classname under AS2.0 class field)

class btnClass extends MovieClip {
public function btnClass() {
}

private function onRollOver() {
this.gotoAndPlay("frmOver"); //this one goto play roll over frame in button
}
private function onRollOut() {
this.gotoAndPlay("frmOut"); //this one goto play roll out frame in button
}
}

second way, no need to use class file. just use attachmovie function with a loop. when u attach the button on stage, attach the onrollover,rollout and release for them as well.

for(var i=0;i < numba;i++){
attacMovie("buttonname in library", "newname"+i, i);

["newname"+i].onRollOver = function(){
this.gotoAndPlay("frmOver");
}
. // and all the remaining button behaviour
.
.
.
}

- EDIT -
and more tips, use XML to store all the button names, links and other details.

and something more, which is not really needed to do most of the time. use action script to create the dynamic text field. you might asking why use actionscript to create it. because in this way, if your button has a long name, so it wont like cut out by the dynamic text field size you manually set in the button.

As you see, I m just posting more of a "way" to do it, and not the full source, because I believe one person can learn more, if he/she research more on him/herself instead of modifying a source file provided or copy and paste



This post has been edited by mclelun: Mar 7 2006, 12:19 AM