Animated Button Help! New to Animate

[Joannw]

I'm creating a navigation bar with adobe animate and I have created an animated button but I do not know how to make something, such as text, to show up once I click the button as well as a back button. I tried inserting an action on the main timeline, the second layer timeline, on the down state of the button etc. I just can't seem to get it to work without a compiler error.

Update: My animated button isn't an animation when you hover over the button but rather it is an animation where the symbol enters the stage as a movie clip but it is also a button... I just need this button to do something like have text appear when it is clicked and also have a back button option to return to the first frame before the first button was clicked.

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

I'm not really sure of what exactly you want to achieve.

Anyway, to simply show a text field with a button, add a click event listener to the button and set the visibility or the text field to true in the handler function. Like this:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    yourTextField.visible = true;
}
yourTextField.visible = false;
yourButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

If this is not what you want, can you provide more details?

Regards,

JC

[Joannw]

It tells me "access of undefined property ____button" whenever I try to incorporate my button. Why is it an undefined property when it is a button? I can click the button and it shows me the hover/down/hit states so it has to be a button but when I try to give it an event listener, it shows me that compiler error.

[GoryGreg]

Hi,

select CTRL and J and make sure 'Use Advanced Layers' is not ticked. Give that a try.

[Joannw]

What does advance layering do and what difference does it make if it is not ticked rather than ticked? Will it affect the work I've done up till this point?

[Nick Gioia]

try this tutorial

Actions on buttons in Adobe Animate - YouTube

[Joannw]

I took a look at the video but my problem seems to be more complicated with the whole layering issue. I will try to work on it some more!