One way to instantiate a mc as a button in as3 is:
my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myFunction);
my_btn.buttonMode = true;
function myFunction(event:MouseEvent):void {
//do something
}
jimbo
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On 6/26/2007 at 9:40 PM Adam Pasztory wrote:
>In ActionScript 2, I never used button symbols. Instead I would create
>buttons as MovieClips, give the frames of the buttons labels -- "_up",
>"_down", "_over" -- and assign an event handler to them.
>
>I tried this in AS3, but it didn't seem to work. Is there some new secret
>to MovieClip buttons in Flash 9?
>
>thanks,
>Adam
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