Adobe Flash CS4: Buttons in ActionScript 3.0

Learn how to make buttons using actionscript 3.0

NOTE: Its not the same as ActionScript 2.0 for those of you familiar with traditional methods.

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Education

Tags:

• Adobe
• Flash
• CS4
• action
• script
• actionscript
• macromedia
• player

[IglooDweller]

How do you get it to link to an external URL or animate upon rollover? Or like... animate and then link to URL when clicked?

[it9001]

@IglooDweller On the Over state, make the button into a movieclip and then animate the movie clip. The over state is for rollover. You can do it when it is clicked by using the Down state.

to link to and external URL you use the following line of code :

getURL("LINK","_blank");

[sephirothrikusora]

i cant get the animation to stop. pls help!!

[it9001]

@sephirothrikusora In the frame you want the animation to stop...

in the actions panel you enter in the following command....

stop();

[CJacuzzi]

Be very careful to include all your instructions. or example, at one point you say "and now I'm just going to delete the skip frame" and then you make some sort of additional change but don't say what it is. You delete the skip frame and then quickly do another couple of things which makes obvious changes to your timeline (looks like you insert another frame or something) but don't even mention what they are. It's things like this which can ruin a perfectly good instructional video

[it9001]

thanks for the pointer ... i'll keep that in mind for the future. ^_^

[sephirothrikusora]

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Void.

I did that. But the animation still won't stop. This compiler error comes out.

[24qwertyuiop]

thanks for this tutorial it really helped me for my school project! :)))

[GayBooi]

really need this tutorial for my school project, but this tutorial sucks soo bad

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[MrKalinka999]

don't you think you go to fast in explaining? please, slow down! thank you

[TheLtUhura]

One thing I cannot find anywhere on the web is a good explanation of how to add another button further along the timeline, perhaps one that also goes to the next frame. There is always an error of "cannot access a property or method of a null object reference at that other button's frame. ???

[Tehevilpie]

When i typed in the coding, it says it's wrong, despite me following this perfectly... my flash just doesn't want to do the god damn thing it's fucking supposed to, god damn fucking time vampire HELP ME PLZ

[J3joooo3]

i just installed flash cs4 yestarday

and now i can make the same button in 1 sec with less coding !

anyway good tutorial !!

i hope to see you doing more !

[PeakInsights]

How would I write the code if I dont want the button to appear until frame 10 but my actions are on frame 1?