make button instance containing movieclip play specific frame

Question

What I want to do is have one movieclip that has many frames and turn that into a button and then make different instances of the button and have those instances display a certain frame of the underlying movieclip.  I'm very new to AS3 and was very beginner with AS2 and have no idea what to even do here.  I have looked for tutorials and found nothing that helps me so if anyone knows of something or can help I would appreciate it.

Kenneth Kawamoto · Accepted Answer

Here is what I have so farBtn1.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,gotoFrame);function gotoFrame(event:Event):void {Btn1.stop("Blue");}following labeled frames Gradient, Blue, Pink, PurpleThe actual scene depth goes like thisScene1: instances of Btn_Art = Btn1, Btn2, Btn3, Btn4Btn_art is a symbol made from the movieclip ButtonBase_Art (it still has the up, over, down, and hit states)ButtonBase_Art has the following labeled frames Gradient, Blue, Pink, PurpleSo I want Btn1 to display the Blue frame of animation but still maintain the up over down and hit statesI dont know if this makes anymore sense to youBtn1.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,gotoFrame);function gotoFrame(event:Event):void {Btn1.stop("Blue");}This does not make sense. It should simply be:Btn1.gotoAndStop("Blue");--Kenneth Kawamotohttp://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Anonymous · Answer

Any movie clip can be a button simply by attaching mouse listeners to it. One example that relates to what you want to do is a check box. I often make these using a two frame movie clip. On frame one the box is blank. On frame two the box is checked... And there is a stop(); placed on frame one so the clip doesn't play.

If you would place that clip on stage, and give it an instance name of 'myCheck' then you could do:

myCheck.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, toggleCheck, false, 0, true);

function toggleCheck(e:MouseEvent):void

{

if(myCheck.currentFrame == 1){

myCheck.gotoAndStop(2);

}else{

myCheck.gotoAndStop(1);

}

So, as you click it the check will toggle between the two frames / states. You can have as many instances as you like, they just need to have different instance names so you can access them separately from code.

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