Building a Basic Flash Site Part 2- Making Navigation Buttons work in Actionscript 3/Flash CS4

[Swiltching]

This is great thankyou so much

[inntoon]

Shadowfox84, glad this was helpful. Also see youtube.com/watch?v=gR9b4xcyPE­8 for more on event listeners and buttons

[Shadowfox84]

a day late for my final, and after watching several other tutorials, yours is the only one I really understood. I FINALLY UNDERSTAND THIS. THANK YOU!!!

[bard77]

get syntax error on function goStart(evt:Event):void {

can´t find the error?

[inntoon]

Can't help you without seeing the code. Are you missing a bracket? If you use only the one line above, you'll get an error. If you use,

function goStart(evt:Event):void {

}

you won't have a function that does anything, but you won't get an error.

Otherwise, try posting a whole block of code. Also, specifics about the error message would be helpful.

[bard77]

@inntoon

found the problem, simple but so annoying...

first function spelled funtion in my code and then failed to name my buttons.. thought I did, but nope.. :-) thanx. It works fine! Great tut.

[riottgirl]

when I test with only the "home" and "bounce" code, it works great. When I add in the final script for the "fly" button, it loops.

[inntoon]

you're probably using a gotoAndPlay('fly"); instead of a gotoAndStop("fly") - a common mistake

[riottgirl]

@inntoon : nope. I'm using a gotoAndStop

function goflyer(e:Event):void {

gotoAndStop("flyer")

}

btn.Flyer.addEventListener(Mou­seEvent.CLICK,goflyer);

[CarnahanRaul]

@riottgirl

i had the same problem

turned out that in the end i typed AddEventListener instead of addEventListener

20 minutes wasted on one capital letter lol duh

[iryna]

Best flash tutorial so far for me ! pLease keep it coming !!!

and thank you !!

[pinguwaddles1990]

Sorry but I'm still having no luck :(. I have done all that you said. When I tested the movie at 3:48 I had the same problem where the letters flicked through. The buttons seem to have no affect on the letters when I test the movie.

[pinguwaddles1990]

I have just tried this and when I tested the movie it flicked through the letters instead of linking the letters to the buttons. I've checked the actions script and can't see any mistakes, any suggestions?

[inntoon]

you need a stop() action on frame 1 to keep the timeline from running like a movie. You want it to stop on frame1 until the button tells it gotoAndStop("another_frame");