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Post June 17th, 2006, 3:55 am

Hey everyone

I've got this horizontal scrolling menu (movie clip) made up of thumbnail images(buttons). The menu is set up with a mask layer to act as a window to the menu, and it scrolls left and right depending on the x location of the mouse. Everything about the scrolling works perfectly, except i cant get the buttons to respond to 'on release' 'goandplay' commands. Whats weird is the buttons do respond to my changes in the 'up, over, down, hit' instances.

this is the code i have on the movie clip:

mouseX = _xmouse;
menuX = menu._x;
if (mouseX>400) {
diff = (mouseX-400)/15;
}
if (mouseX<250) {
diff = (250-mouseX)/15;
}
if (mouseX<=200 && menuX<=600) {
setProperty("menu", _x, menuX+diff);
}
if (mouseX>=250 && menuX>=100) {
setProperty("menu", _x, menuX-diff);
}
if (menu._x>=600) {
menu._x = 600;
} else if (menu._x<=-150) {
menu._x = -150;
}
gotoAndPlay(21);

And this is the code on the button within the movie clip:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("30");
}

can anyone help? does what i wrote make sense?

thanks for the help
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Post June 17th, 2006, 3:55 am

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Post June 18th, 2006, 8:24 am

just to be more clear so u may get answers ...

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mouseX = _xmouse;
menuX = menu._x;
if (mouseX>400) {
diff = (mouseX-400)/15;
}
if (mouseX<250) {
diff = (250-mouseX)/15;
}
if (mouseX<=200 && menuX<=600) {
setProperty("menu", _x, menuX+diff);
}
if (mouseX>=250 && menuX>=100) {
setProperty("menu", _x, menuX-diff);
}
if (menu._x>=600) {
menu._x = 600;
} else if (menu._x<=-150) {
menu._x = -150;
}
gotoAndPlay(21);


  1. mouseX = _xmouse;
  2. menuX = menu._x;
  3. if (mouseX>400) {
  4. diff = (mouseX-400)/15;
  5. }
  6. if (mouseX<250) {
  7. diff = (250-mouseX)/15;
  8. }
  9. if (mouseX<=200 && menuX<=600) {
  10. setProperty("menu", _x, menuX+diff);
  11. }
  12. if (mouseX>=250 && menuX>=100) {
  13. setProperty("menu", _x, menuX-diff);
  14. }
  15. if (menu._x>=600) {
  16. menu._x = 600;
  17. } else if (menu._x<=-150) {
  18. menu._x = -150;
  19. }
  20. gotoAndPlay(21);


And this is the code on the button within the movie clip:

Code: [ Select ]
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("30");
}
  1. on (release) {
  2. gotoAndPlay("30");
  3. }
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Post June 18th, 2006, 8:28 am

oh yeah thats because you got the frame number Between " " .. remove them ... and give it a shot ..

Only frame names (strings) can be assigned between double quotes..
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Post June 18th, 2006, 9:31 am

yes that code was correct, but the reason for those quote marks was because i tried to make it work by labelling the frame. I took the quote marks out but it still does not work?

Thanks for the help
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Post June 18th, 2006, 11:06 am

so you are saying that the button receives on press events but not release ?

try targeting your Movie .. like

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_root.gotoAndPlay(30);

//or if it was a nested Mocieclip ,

_root.nested_mc.gotoAndPlay(30) ;
  1. _root.gotoAndPlay(30);
  3. //or if it was a nested Mocieclip ,
  5. _root.nested_mc.gotoAndPlay(30) ;


try to put a trace statement Between the on(release) fucntion c if it actually getting that alright ...
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on(release) {

trace(" Released " ) ;
}
  1. on(release) {
  3. trace(" Released " ) ;
  4. }


c if it outputs " Released "
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Post June 18th, 2006, 1:06 pm

THANKS SO MUCH DUDE!

your root suggestion worked perfectly. Thanks for your help, i'm new to flash, i've been battling to find the solution to this for last couple days.

thanks again
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Post June 20th, 2006, 9:13 am

just a reminder,
if you will ever load a flash movie that you created from another flash movie (called loader), dont use _root. in the loaded movie, since it will take the _root of the loader.
Instead, get used with this._parent
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Post June 20th, 2006, 11:44 am

good point .
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