ActionScript 3.0 Linking and Using Buttons: Flash Tutorial!

[flakothedog1]

Great video. I've only started learning Flash & AS3 today but I've got the basics already thanks to your clear tutorial. Cheers!

[mansubarna]

thanks buddy

[TheElchampion85]

actionscript 2 is a lot easier, especially with the stop and go to functions

[d123s404]

First thing he says according to the captions feature: "hello monkeys video tutorial"

[televisionteevee]

Thank you!! Success with Alpha, and Navigate to link!! I really like your tutorials, you are a good teacher, however, sometimes you forget to tell me some of your individual keystrokes, and its hard to see what was typed.... (Question)~~ How did you learn AS? How long did it take you to learn what you display in your tutorials? Did you learn by just doing tutorials like this?

[BinaryBunyip]

'Class or interface can't be loaded' ?????? Fucken Flash shit.

[BinaryBunyip]

E.G, why the F&&& do you have to tell Flash, to import itself, over & over again, & tell it to listen, as if it's just retarded & neut.

[rapidwaterwolf1]

@BinaryBunyip you can tell flash to import all of its classes at once, the reason why this is not done by default is it can greatly increase load times for fla files with many different classes.

[BinaryBunyip]

AS3 still sucks. You need to use AS3 for phone apps. So for those who claim you can just use AS2, have no idea what they are talking about.

[SkipFour]

followed the steps directly (while working on my own project), yet the stop(); and gotoAndStop ("blah"); don't actually make the banner stop and it keeps playing from frame 1 to frame 50

what do?

[SkipFour]

@SkipFour nevermind, found the issue.

A new one has appeared though:

>the first step, when clicking on the button and stuff appears - works like a charm

>the moment i add "mouse_out" function the button stops working and when you click it nothing happens.

no idea why this is happening

[XxXGodsMistakeXxX]

i want to do a where is Waldo kinda thing,

so if you click it it would go to another layer and say "well done"

I am finding this hard to do so can you plz give me some assistance.

[wilhelml]

thanks man, I didnt know you needed to import your events. this really helped me!

[MrManaswini]

itz really a nice tuts :)

[thetaxlady]

Thanks, this was a big help for a project I've been working on!

[b00mpwnage]

I'm getting a syntax error;expecting semicolon before void.

my code looks like this;

function rClick(event:MouseEvent);void{

PLEASE HELP!!!

[Praveen501]

@b00mpwnage

What you are using before void is NOT a semicolon (:) it is ;..

so

(event:MouseEvent):void

[b00mpwnage]

@Praveen501 Thanks Man!! i've been looking for 2WEEKS!! +1 to you!

[MrSpecial1000]

Dude, you are SO clear and taught me that so well - RESPECT! :)

[ceyel6]

HOW DO I GET ACTION SCRIPT ????????

[N3ME5l5]

@ceyel6 action script is a programm language like HTML or CSS

you can use it if you hit F9 in Adobe Flash Profesional... but only i the newer version!

[iiperento]

from where to get actionscript 3.0?

[mapatters]

Nicely done. This issue was driving me crazy. You explantion, step by step procedures, and sample, made everything perfectly clear. Adobe could learn a lot from you. Thanks a bunch.

[Tritian]

lol, good tutorial but please don't take this as malicious. You said buttons quite a few times in the first min and it made me chuckle :).

[srivatsan1101]

NEW to Act Sct 3.0.... ThX for a nice strart...

[hyprhypr]

you were very descriptive ..with the tutorial...wonderful comprehensive pace...keep up the good work govna.....

[batmmannn]

I was totally stuck till I found your video. The other videos just did not work. I am new to AS3 and had been avoiding it. This does help though I think it is harder than AS2 and that is not a good thing for Flash or Users . It is more powerful but if you're not a coder nut it's a pain in the ass to learn. Thanks!

[mulletcrews]

You are a wonderful teacher! Thanks so much for helping me understand flash.

[darkorbit00Xfighter]

how can i change the scene with a button in actionscript 3.0?

Because "AIR for Android" only supports AS3

:S

[StickMan1316]

Does anyone Know how to speed up a movieclip by using the Actionscript!! Please I need to know how to increase the speed of a Movieclip and without changing the FPS rate!!!

[StickMan1316]

@StickMan1316 I am using Actionscript 3.0 by the way!!

[jaysabeh]

I fell asleep just when i opened the link... too slow explanasion + sleepy !

[AmaniKaleo]

Excellent tutorial, thank you! Helped a lot.

[MrEpicFlashes]

in AS2 the code is

on(release){

_root.gotoAndPlay(whatever frame your game/animation starts on)

}

[horsefucker1680]

This tutorial is useless unless your buttons are exactly the same.

[lagoren]

does anybody knows how to make a button with roll-over + roll-out that has say two different animations that wont go off when you roll over them, but just when you roll over the button that is linked to them?? huh?

[Lebensbaustein]

Thanks so much, your tuts are great. :) Greets from Prague.

PS: Is there a way to link a button to another .html or .exe file? I've searched for hours already, tried several things other people have suggested, but nothing works. The closest I've come to is this

btn.onRelease=function(){

getURL("pollock.html","_self")­;

}

My files are all in the same folder. I guess I'll just dig myself a grave. :D

[RAMDOvideoProduccion]

gracias me aclaro algunas dudas..... tnxx I clarify some questions

[ChaseandDonny]

Stupid Adobe had to make AS3 more complicated.

[DamirKaran]

Thanks this helped me solve my problem!

[martahipolitosantos]

how do we hyperlink a not external link?

[VF20Designs]

You are so awesome tutvid! I'm jumping from ActionScripting 1.0 to 3.0, and your tutorial made this very, very easy! :)

[megloton]

Used to be Flash was simple, well made. now its just so much adobe garbage. This whole process used to take 2 min. Good god can you convolute a simple tool more????

[eonprez]

I did everything this video told me to do and I'm still getting errors when testing the video. The error I'm getting error 1061: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addEventListerner through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.

Anyone want to help me out?

[shad0]

Thanks for the ActionScripts :D

All the other videos I have watched today sucked!

ThumbsUP

[uhlexsis]

Thank you so much! This really helped me learn basic button fuctions. xo

[YiFongCheng]

Hello,

Do you know how to make a function that show an object at certain time? For example, I would like an arrow to show at the 59 second and disappear at 1:10. Thank you.

[LordKrahen]

Thanks for the video.

[mwm695]

is there a way to link two scenes without using buttons? Meaning just hitting enter to play it and it plays the two scenes continuously?

[xTorettoCTx]

Great Tutorial, helped me a lot. Thanks.

[LemonWafflezz]

is it possible to make a button that puts you onto another flash file?

[braigus09]

I'm having problems with the URL button. I followed the vid but its not working.Syntax error

[timografiskdesign]

what if my buttons are inside a movieclip? i have 30 buttons inside a mc, and i want to view different labels on the main timeline through clicking on those buttons inside the mc that is placed in the main timeline.....

[stuntpea]

THanks mate. You're a good egg.

[multicolorlips0]

Great tutorial, it was very helpful!

Just one question: where I can write the target "_self"? cause I want to open the link in the same page... I don't know where I have to write the tag! Can someone help me? Thanks :)

[thinlineprod]

Great tut! No fussin´ about. As a complete idiot when it comes to Flash I had no problems following this!!!

[studio619]

OMG thank you for the clarity 2.0 was easier. How do you make the requested URL appear in place of the current page? In the older version you could apply self, blank and parent I think.

[kytzy]

for those who just wanted to link the hole flash animation (CS4 with AS3):

1make a new layer on top of everything

2in timeline->click 1st frame of the created layer->in the properties menu(right) go to-> name and enter: b_btn

3put a WHITE rectangle over the hole scene, right click it->covert to symbol-> name: b_btn type: Button

4in properties menu(right)-> instance name: b_btn ; then change display blending to MULTIPLY

5actions frame(f9) and enter from this clip(from 18:50) rows 2 3 7 9-11

[SolSolstar]

Thank you SO much.

AS3 is so tricky. You helped me out!

your tutorial is very very good. Very clear and logical, good voice. perfect.

send you very special thanx from germany!

[SolSolstar]

Thank you SO much.

AS3 is so tricky. You helped me out!

send you very special thanx from germany!

[AshSmith06]

Thanks for this it has really helped me. I've sent you a private message to ask a few things, I hope you can reply.

[MissYamaneko]

Again great and so helpful tut for me ^_^

Thx alot.

[garek007]

it's so fucking ridiculous how much code is required to make a simple button link

[MacFlash2]

:void?

What do you mean by "not returning any data"?

[Xithon]

@MacFlash2 Sometimes you might write a function to perform a calculation, like for instance you might have 2 variables called "varA" and "varB" that you want added together. If you use :void then when the function is called the calculation will happen, but nothing else. If you take out :void and add a 'return' in the function then the answer to the calculation can then be used outside of the function. Hope that makes sense :)

[purezelda]

Ah quick question tho, how can i make the buttons open the url in the same page? As i'm using flash buttons on my website to link to other pages on the site and the buttons make it open a new tab/window how can i stop it from doing that?

[youguysareidiots1]

@purezelda yeah i want to know as well cuz i did the same thing and i just want it to not have it open up a new window

[youguysareidiots1]

@youguysareidiots1 oh hey i just figured it out. message me if you wanna know

[TheKurrent1]

@purezelda instead of "_blank" use "_self"?

[Apapilootoe]

@purezelda I saw one of his tutorial said like put (I forgot what he said) so it will open in the same window/tab.

[ying080]

You can try adding ,"_self" after typing the website inside new URL Request

[Louis3Design]

@purezelda Where it says target="" in between the quotations write '_self'

[skatejam7]

make a tutorial for an audio sequencer, that would be some useful shit

[bluecalligraphy]

whats a way to make it so on the next click say lines go away so when you click the button once the lines appear and on the second click they go away

[Iknowbetterthanthat]

Damn those SSSssssSSsssss'es!

Please filter them out next time... Nice tutorial besides that.

[jdayguides]

MouseEvent.CLICK is similar to on(release)..

if you want to do the action once the user clicks the mouse NOT releasing it, do:

MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN

Using MovieClips for buttons is much better because the buttons will be more interactive.

[AZURE0zodiac]

itd be alot better if it wasnt for the background music >:

[Iseeyoursoul]

Very much appreciated, went around all day trying to figure out how ActionScript 3.0 worked. Your tutorial made the basics clear for me, I can proceed now THANK YOU!!

[Nithesh57]

hw to get d buttons code ya m really confusing plz tel me

[EstudiosCriz]

======D

[SteeveCordier]

Thx for your easy understandable tutorial ! nice job

[willjones655]

I enjoy you...

[coMpLekS1]

very clear explination. THANKS

[fearsveil]

omg i love you!

[kindermix77]

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

var getTutvid:URLRequest = new URLRequest("")

B_btn.addEventListener(MouseEv­ent.CLICK, bCleck);

function bClick(event:MouseEvent):void{ navigateToURL(getTutvid)

}

[MichaelRivero1]

I've learned a lot thank you very much. Now to get started on my assignment

[BasSOAD]

lol where can i get that? caant fiinndd (:(:(:: answer/link meeee

[MannyFucksConquer]

Very nice tutorial, i learned a lot, thank you.

I subscribed, time to look through your other vids 0.0

[akitoakito]

One of the best flash tutorial videos I have seen, and I saw the colons in full screen on low resolution. However, you may want to say "colon void " for those that are just typing what you way.

[MacShrike]

Very clear.

Thx a mill.

[Mrgulliboy]

thx!!!!

[onlycosmyn]

every time you press the B button a new window pops up?

If i use the button on my site and i press it to send me to the forum will my forum appear in a new window? if yes can you tell me how to avoid that?

[onlycosmyn]

please respond

[ShamaticWow]

just a quick question, when creating a button for a site i'd rather make the button have a transparent background as in you don't get a big black squar button on everything covering everthing behind it. How do i do that?

[cuzzobuzzo1]

Great tutorial! Thanx for your time

[redheadbanjo]

didn't work for me.

[txchen123]

I like 2.0 more

[VvmagancommercevV]

Can you use url request if you have all page navigation in an array structure?

[chocoyoyo44]

great job! reallY :)

but i don't think it would works with a beginner like me lol , it's difficult :S

[wendasierra]

me salvaste la vida!!!

un abrazo desde Colombia :)

[failogic]

Great vid, explained clearly, I blame action script 3.0 haha I give up I'm using 2.0!

[areallystupidguy]

This is extremely helpful, thanks

[kittupeters]

import statement in the begining is not required when u are adding code in the timeline.

[5stm]

Thank you :) you helped me out a bunch lol

[punchthedog]

Do you have to type all that code or is there can you use the pop-out menus in the Actions Panel? This seems ludicrously complicated given it's only for simple functions.

[HeavenXxX]

looks difficult...=.=!!!

[jeffrey2778]

can u help me to convert as1 flash template to as3 template...i try it to convert it using adobe flash cs5 but when it done and try to preview it it getting me error and when start to load the preview the template is abnormal the sounds & fx keep looping the flash animation too...pls....help me i need the template for my website

[slipknotjoeyjor]

Very useful video

[GuitarHeroDice]

I have been searching and searching for a long time now but I can not seem to find anywhere to download this program. Would someone care to give me a link to do this?

[vinnyvasquez]

really helpful man. thanks. nice and patient teaching, you dont jump too difficult too quickly.

[realcelestialphoenix]

note; at 6:02, there is a colon after 'event'- so the brackets in line 7 are (event:MouseEvent)

[juankiloko]

you save my life great tutorial, keep doing men

[fefiss86]

so.. it's fucking hard to make a button.. i miss my old flash mx :(

[rakrotnibor]

great tutorials! but there's one thing no one seems to know.. how do i tell flash to look for a frame label within another layer in the timeline? iv got my buttons and my content in my "main" .. and from my main i wanna tell the buttons to go to "content layer" and play frame label "images" for example.. no one knows.. everyone just shows how to link within the same layer or to a URL..

[fawn2002com]

ur coding doesnt work with my stuff, I have same set up , action3, but for event listern, It will not code. =(

[puertoricanboy2008]

hey dude thanks for posting this video but I really need your help. I have followed everything you did step by step and got no errors in my code but the problem is that when I go to test movie I get the following- 1020 access of undefined property. I am not sure what why this is or what I can do to fix this. Can you or anyone here please help? thanks

[puertoricanboy2008]

@puertoricanboy2008 never mind. I found my problem. I forgot to give my button an instance name in the library. That was it. Once I did that it worked for me

[pomod]

since the resolution is a bit bad on this I just want to point out that in the function line, in the bracket after event there is a colon not a comma. Its hard to see and is never said by the narrator. This hung me up for about 90 minutes with me going "Why? Why is there an error in my syntax?!!!)

Just passing it along in case anyone else had the same problem.

[Carmenkoeppel]

I get a mistake when I type the first code. In the following line:

people_btn.alpha -= 0.2; it sais:

1084: Syntax error: expecting colon before dot.

1084: Syntax error: expecting identifier before rightbrace.

And when I chance that, there is another mistake coming. Can anyone help me please?

[LouisMorissette]

THANK YOU....!!!!!

[warmics]

is there a way to play up to the keyframe? using something other than gotoAndStop perhaps?

[flavioscorpions]

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[jEDSo075]

my god..this is so hard huh..but i'll just repeat it..tnx=) and do we need to use the import everytime in actions just to put a link button??.. answer this question..THANKS AGAIN=)

[jmydn]

thanx so much it took me 2days to figure out how to add a flash button to my animation clip or whatev *noob*. but the var bclick part explained it and it works! good looking homie!

[ProLiteNews]

hey, do I need to use "import" every time or just for the first time in the file?

[ProLiteNews]

holy hell. I don't want to learn how to program in the fricking language, I just want to make one single fricking flash object.

Why would I want to spend hours to learn all this bs, I just want to make ONE BLOODY BUTTON.

I am not afraid to learn coding, I can code passably in C, but this is just ridiculous compared to the simplicity of building simple flash movies with AS2.

Yech.

Good tutorial, just a real shame that it's such a PITA.

[daPlumber702]

ok... so, you did alll that, but how do you do a rollover... just a simple rollover like used to be so easy in as2?

something where it drops alpha or raises when the mouse moves over a button. any help would be grand

[zacharney1]

hey, got a problem, after entering all my code and getting not compiler errors, whenever i try to preview with CTRL+ENTER i get TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

at zhp2_fla::MainTimeline/frame1(­) in the output.

Please help!!!

[kishan291]

thank you so much, this helped a great deal !

[crumbslyum]

Exccellent tutorial. Thanks very much! :D

[mote939]

you just can't imagen how much this tutorial helped me, thank you!

[m4unot]

How in actionscript 3.0 i can check net connection???

and thank you :(

[BeatleUniversity]

This is an excellent tutorial. Thank you!

[stifroc]

I created my navigation in a movieclip, then imported that movieclip into my main scene. How do I code the button to navigate to the frame label in scene 1? if I use the code --- gotoAndPlay("Label x"); --- it will try to navigate to the frame label "Label X" in the movieclip time line, and not the time line of scene 1.

In AS2 I would code --- _root.gotoAndPlay("Label x");  --- but this is not supported in AS3.

Please help

[snmbala]

Nice tutorial for beginners ..

[snmbala]

Nice tutorial for beginners ..

[kristofergulevski]

what is he doing at 6.3?? can someone tell me how to do that code thing?

[PerfectZ3R021]

this really helped thx

[m4unot]

How to see if a txt file file exists???

in ActionScript 3.0??

[182razzo182]

thank you good sir very helpful

[ThePeakGames]

flash how to put buttons in a vcam

[mimosa9618]

how if i wan to link to external file?

[ShawnGlory]

why not make it simple by hosting the file somewhere and creating a link to the file.

[mimosa9618]

ya AS2.0 much more easier then 3.0 i wonder y they wan to upgrade till so complicated...=.="

[uclabruins211]

how do i make a start button and make sure a flash doesn't keep reapeating itself on. like how the things are on newgrounds

[VespucciFilms]

THIS IS AMAZING I LOVE YOU! :D haha.

[ricetuber08]

Hi, you always have very clear instructionals. Thank you. I have a question though, on the last button you made, btnB, what would the code look like if I wanted to have a movie clip play before the button linked to the external website?

[pyrosnowman]

4.5 you explained most things very well

[amigo10712]

Many thanks

Just what I need..

[BassPIayer]

Hey, where did you get those actual buttons, R, B and G

Nice Tut man

Thanks

[mmkirby2]

Yo what the fuck, AS2 was way easier than this.

[snmbala]

@mmkirby2 You son of bitch. Do you know why the AS3 is used for? Monkey can also work with AS2,

[snmbala]

@mmkirby2 You son of bitch. Do you know why the AS3 is used for? Monkey can also work with AS2,

[mmkirby2]

@snmbala I'm sorry but I don't know what you're responding to. I forgot what message I had typed, and I fear it might have been something extremely noob, please enlighten me.

[GhostHunter1986]

i want to know how to make space bar a button i use as3

[Twist3rD]

We are going Tooooo..

Lol

[eProfesor]

can you paste cod

[Aleque]

you are good!