In order to trigger actions or responses on someone else’s computer, Flash needs the sort of complex infrastructure provided by something like Flash Media Server. On its own, Flash Play cannot do what you’re hoping for.

hope u will help me,

regards

kasim

Sure thing. Based on your description, you might try something like this:

myButton.onRollOut = function():Void {
  if (this._currentframe == 1) {
    // do whatever ...
  }
}

That movie clip symbol with the instance name myButton. The if statement checks if the current frame of that button is 1 — if so, it performs whatever you tell it to; if not (because, for example, a previous onPress event has sent it to frame 2), it won’t do anything. Or you could add an else clause for additional instructions.

Pretty straightforward, as you imagined.

P.S. Because this particular blog entry is entitled “How to Trigger Event Handlers of Other Objects,” I feel I should add that I don’t see (so far) where you might need to trigger event handlers of other objects, but maybe you’ve already got that part solid.

I’m using this tutorial to build a project, but I’m having trouble altering it to fit my needs. I want to be able to click on a button and have it go to frame 2, also. The problem is that everytime I rollOut, it goes back to frame 1.

I have a feeling I need a function and conditional in my rollOut event handler. I’ve tried it, but I’m not having much luck.

I figured you might have some answers.

Thanks.

I’m not clear from your comments if you managed to get Flash to “understand” when an answer has been dragged correctly vs. incorrectly. You said you got the dragging part figured out. I imagine you’re using MovieClip.hitTest(), and then comparing the values of things with an if statement. If so, then triggering movie clips is a matter of referencing the clip in question and invoking its MovieClip.play() method (or gotoAndPlay() or whatever makes sense). To test against scores you might use another if and reference a variety of clips in your else clauses (or a variety of frame labels in a single movie clip).

There are virtually countless possibilities, of course, but based on your description I’m afraid I can’t envision the particulars of your scenario in my mind.

To Riff …

This might sound awful, but here, too, I’m afraid I can’t “see” the mechanics of what’s going on beneath your question. Bill’s scenario and yours may benefit from the topic of this blog entry (triggering events handlers of other objects), but then again, you might both benefit from handling custom dispatched events.

Excellent tutoring!. My problem is I need to control 1 mc with two sets of buttons using arrays. Its an interactive map by which users can rollover 1.country map and/or 2.country name for an interaction.
The country map increases in size with a rollover and reverts on rollout. The country name buttons also does this.

I managed to get the rollover country map array to work but cant figure out how to attach the country name to the same interaction. I’m losing sleep over this!

Appreciate if you could help. Thanks in advance.

All the best

Bill

Glad to help!

It looks like your button1_mc is actually a movie clip that is programmed to respond like a button. If that’s so, and if you want both clip “buttons” to go to frame 2 of their own timelines and stop, you could do this:

button1_mc.onRollOver = function () {
  this.gotoAndStop(2);
  button1_mc2.gotoAndStop(2);
}

button1_mc2.onRollOver = function () {
  this.gotoAndStop(2);
  button1_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}