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It loads 99.9% of stuff right.
And you would :lcc_biggrin: :lcc_beer:

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Here’s the .fla for a visual preloader. Open it up and look at the code. I made sure to include a lot of verbose comments to make it simple to understand.

Enjoy.

preloader.fla (26 KB)

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shhhh…maybe justttttt maybe :lcc_smile:

…guess ill NEVER know

Peace

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thanks minis, one thing i have tried looking abuot for is when u mouse off a button its played the mouse over animation in reverse, how is this done, it seems simple but im just not sure where to look for it. thanks

the licker.

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First, make a movie clip and name the instance whatever (for this example, I’ll say button_mc).

In button_mc have a default frame (frame 1, for when it’s doing nothing) and an action attached to it saying stop();

Then on frame 2, start the animation you want it to play when the mouse hovers over it. Let’s say this animation is 5 frames long (so frames 2 - 6 are the animation). On frame 6 you want an action saying gotoAndPlay(2); so it endlessly loops or stop(); if you want it to animate to a certain point and stop.

Now, on frame 7 you start the mouse out animation. This can be whatever kind of animation you want, if you want something different from the reverse animation. Let’s say this animation is, again, 5 frames long. This means frames 7 - 12 are designated to the mouse out animation. On frame 12 you want the action gotoAndStop(1);

Ok, so now that your movie clip is set up, you need to make a transparent button (by creating a new button then only putting something in the “Hit” key frame). We’ll call it trans_button for this example. Click on trans_button and then open your actions panel. Here’s what the actions for trans_button should look like:

on(rollOver) {
    button_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on(rollOut) {
    button_mc.gotoAndPlay(7);
}
on(release) {
    //whatever action you want
}

You may want to have some comment frames in button_mc to make it a little more readable.
ex: Comment frame 2 as “MouseOver” and frame 7 as “MouseOut”, then the actions in trans_button could be

on(rollOver) {
    button_mc.gotoAndPlay("MouseOver");
}

Hope it helps :lcc_smile:

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hey minis i really appreciate all your help man, but for some reason i cant get it to work properly. i dont think i have made the tranparent button in the correct area, or i have put the actionscript in the wrong place. i have made the trans button and put it in the hit areaand opened the actions for that arean and pasted them in but it doesn seemt to be working, i think i may have something in the wrong area, do u have a souce file i could dload from somewhere so i can work it out from that as well as the instructions you have given me, sorry to be a pain about this, i just suck bad at actionscript.

thanks heaps the.licker

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Sure, I’ll whip one up for ya and attach it in a later reply.

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Here ya go.

mcButtons.fla (118 KB)

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Nice shit u got the ministration like the colors.lol :lcc_up: :lcc_up:

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thanks alot man, i know exactly how to make it now thanks alot man, hurry up and put this on the site :lcc_wink: :lcc_up:

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lol ok. The course load’s been pretty tight lately lol. I haven’t made any progress on the site in a bit, but if you need any help, ask! :lcc_wink: