[ali_mabey]

Hello I am currently designing a website for my school project and i'm having problems with creating a button in flash. (I'm sure this is really easy but I'm a newbie) The movie clip just plays and loops - it doesn't act like a button should.

I am also receiving an error every time I publish the movie, which is:

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 1 1086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before leftbrace.


Here is my code for the button:

on (rollOver) {
this.gotoAndPlay("over");
}
on (rollOut) {
this.gotoAndPlay("leave");
}
on (press) {
this.gotoAndPlay("press");
}
on (release) {
this.gotoAndPlay("release");
}
on (releaseOutside) {
this.gotoAndPlay("leave");
}


Help would be much appreciated!!

Thanks

[BetaWar]

Well, you didn't say which version of the language you are using so I am going to assume that you are using AS3, at which point you can't attempt to do functions like that. Instead you need to add event listeners which are waiting for a specific event to fire like so:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, press);

function press(e:MouseEvent):void{
  e.target.gotoAndStop("press");
}

And you would do that for each of your events you want to be listened for.

Hope that helps.

[ali_mabey]

Hey thanks for the reply but I actually fixed it in the end!
I was using AS3 and for some reason in the main timeline it was set to AS2. Duh!

Thanks for help though