Adobe Animate CC, I can't even do mouseover effects :(

[BerkeliTKM]

Hello,

I've recently started using Adobe Animate CC and I can't get my head around how the timeline and different stages work, I understand these are very noob questions but there doesn't seem to be ANY updated tutorials - not on youtube and nothing on Udemy (they all seem to use an older version of Animate CC).

So the basic question is - How do you do mouseovers,

And the more advanced part is, would it be possible to show/hide a complete layer when clicking a button.

This is a project for one of my friends and I have already done plenty of work on the animations and such, just can't get my head around the actions.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks

[kglad · Accepted solution]

with canvas you have to enable mouseover using something like, stage.enableMouseOver(10);

layers don't exist outside the ide, so no, you can't hide a layer.  otoh, you can accomplish what you want by copying the layer/frames and pasting into a movieclip and controlling the movieclip's visible property.

[ClayUUID]

You don't have to manually add enableMouseOver if you use any button clips, which are the simplest way to do mouseover effects.

Basic tutorials for Flash/ActionScript 2 will be almost 1:1 applicable to Animate, even when working in Canvas documents (they require some minor syntax tweaks).