Buttons

Rollover movie clips

It is possible to use symbols as a content of button State Frames. The typical example is an animated rollover button.

Create a new button with rectangle body and a caption.
• Add one more layer to the button. Place the rectangle in lower layer and caption in upper layer of the button.
• In the layer with caption put a separate keyframe in Over state.
• Highlight a text in Over frame, press F8 and transform the text to the movie symbol.
• Extend this movie symbol timeline up to 8 frames and insert keyframes in the end and the middle of the keyframes.
• Insert motion tween between keyframes
• Change a size of the caption and advanced color in the middle keyframe of the movie symbol text

Test your movie. On mouse over caption should pulse.

You may add any interesting effects including long elaborated movies inside the Over state frame. However you need to be aware that this rollover movie stops playing if you move the mouse cursor out of the button

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