Buttons

“Letter” buttons

You also may create the buttons, which resemble the “links” traditionally placed on the web page by using only letters.

To make such a button you need to pass the same procedure – type the text, highlight it and transform to the button.

We have done three link button and changed the Over state to simulate a rollover effect, traditional for web pages.

Here you need to work a bit with Hit state. You may have mentioned that two top links response smoothly to the hovering mouse cursor, but the bottom one trembles if you move a cursor over it.

It happen because by default Flash consider the drawings as a clickable area. So if you place the cursor over the hole in the letter O – it’s not a button anymore. To fix the problem you need to draw the solid shape in Hit state frame, for example a rectangle. It won’t be seen on stage, but will be clickable. Top two buttons were done exactly like that.

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