Re: FLASH: Buttons don't work in test movie

[John Croteau]

Hi Ashley,


Everything looks fine except that you are using Scenes.

Your mehods generally work but sometimes these simple things fail when

using Scenes.

Possible solutions:

1) Remove Stop Actions

2) Label the frames and use Labels instead of Frame numbers in the Go

to's.

Do not use the same Label Names in Scene One and Two.

3) Use a Go to in the frame 2 of the Scene.

4) Use Labels and combine Scenes into a single Sceme. This is the best

solution since there are other problems with Scenes with sounds and

Movie Clips that limit options for your movie. There are no Scenes in

the exported Flash swf file, it is a single Scene no matter how many

scenes there were in the authoring environment. Many people Label their

previous Scenes as Scene1, Scene2 etc. to keep the same naming structure

even though there is really just one physical Scene.


> I double-clicked each button to assign the actions in Instance

> Properties.

> Button 1 (starts play for Scene 1:

> On (Release)

> Play (No Parameters)

> End On

> Button 2 (located last frame of Scene 1, starts play for Scene 2):

> On (Release)

> Go to and Play (Scene 2, Frame 1)

> End On

> Button 2 (located last frame of Scene 1, starts play for Scene 2):

> On (Release)

> Go to and Play (Scene 1, Frame 1)

> End On

> 

> Thanks for your response, Marc. And your help was appreciated the

> other

> day with the transparent GIF problem I was having.

> 

> Ashley Vail

> 

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> 

> >><SNIP>

> >>When the buttons are enabled, they work perfectly in preview but

> they

> >>don't work at all in the Test Movie mode. Saving and exporting as an

> 

> >>SWF file yields the same dead results.

> >>

> >>I checked the help files before resorting to asking the group but

> >>found nothing. Does someone have a hint for me to get this

> >>straightened out?

> >>

> >>Regards,

> >>Ashley Vail

> >>

> >

> >Please post the actions exactly as you have applied them to the

> buttons.

> >Are you assigning the actions in the button editor or assigning them

> to the

> >instance of the button on the stage. The latter is the correct way to

> do it.

> >

> >

> >Marc Hoffman

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