Hi!
I have created a series of movieclip buttons in Flash using Actionscript 3.0 and the Tweener class (http://osflash.org/tweene
However, after thoroughly playing around with them, I am noticing a small glitch. If you move your cursor really slowly towards the outer edge of one of the buttons, you will notice that the button will expand and contract rapidly (basically going back and forth from its roll-over and roll-out states). It may take you a little bit of playing with until you see the glitch.
Anyway, I have no idea how to prevent that or if I maybe set something up wrong in my buttons that may be causing this. Can someone please help me out. Thanks!
P.S. To get the animations to work, you'll need to have the Tweener class in the same directory as the Flash file. If you don't already have it, you can get the class here: http://code.google.com/p/t
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Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you mean but in the sample I added to my question, you'll notice in each movieclip that there is a "hitarea" movieclip with a "0" alpha. I figured that that should solve my issue but i guess not.
Is something like that what you meant? Or did I misunderstand your reply :)
It is nothing you can solve satisfactorily because either you will always have this margin where it happens when using the elastic transition.
For the most part I don't consider it a problem because user mostly head straight over the button and it takes a bit of fine mouse work to duplicate the results so most people would ignore it.
I would generally ignore it however, when I use the buttons in one of my Flash projects, I have the same issue but its much more noticeable.
I've attached a new file which essentially has the same buttons but within the project I'm working on (I just removed all the additional frames and code and left the buttons). You'll see that the glitch is much more noticeable here.
I'm really not sure why its much worse here then it is in the first sample I provided. Not sure if its an entirely different issue or what.
Any ideas?
here is an example of what i mean
the yellow shade is an invisible button above your spring button.
when you move over it! it gets bigger and smaller just like your spring button
but it does not bounce. so there is not gap in time for the glitch to occur.
and because the invisible button is now the hit point all your spring button has
to do is move when the invisible button is rolled over.
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Thanks for the help greeneel.
I went through your file and your explanation makes sense. However, does this mean I need to do this to every button I have that uses the elastic effect? It seems like a bit of overkill to create an invisible button each time and animate both.
I'm definitely going to use your solution for now but I'm still curious if there is a more efficient way to do this.
Thanks again for the help.
this was just an example to give you an idea. you just got to apply this idea with what you have now!
perhaps adding a child and giving it a name close to the original image and then adressing that child
with get child by name and adding the extra strings needed with a string var.
something along those lines would put you back to your dynamic setup.
hope you understand what i mean
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by: danyul_cPosted on 2009-08-12 at 09:23:13ID: 25080260
This is simply because you are leaving the clickable area of the button.
I have used the Tweener classes quite frequently and it is solid. It would seem to me that you need to set a clickable mask for your button and either allow that to expand and contract with the movie clip. Or, to ensure there are noe point in your movie clip that are set to not respond to mouse clicks.
something like the property mouseEnabled or mouseChildren.