Hello--- I hope someone can help me with this problem, which I have had a bunch of times in Flash: I often make hypertext in Flash by making an invisible button and placing instances of it on a layer above the text I want to make clickable. I make the button by having nothing in the up, over, or down frames and a square in the hit frame. Then when you drag the button onto the stage, it appears as a transparent blue square which you can resize and place over the text you want people to click, and then you define call-back functions on each instance to make it execute whatever code is desired... (I can't use HTML links to do what I want since I want complex Actionscript to execute when there is a click, not just to load a web page...)
Unfortunately, when I test my movies sometimes, the acual hot area is not quite where the blue area is in the authoring environment. I just did a piece with 30 hyperlinked words this way, and the buttons had to be positioned by trial and error and to make them work, they had to be put at least 30 pixels offset from where it looked like they should be placed. Does anyone have an explanation or fix for this? It happens only in some projects and I always create the invisible buttn the same way. I am using Flash MX 2004 Pro on a PC/Win XP. Millie www.sporkworld.org _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
