More Flash help - buttons

[Blitz]

ok thanks to you guys who helped me last time, i have the click to activate thing sorted now you have to download something from the adobe website...Anyways, i have a new problem. Today i have been trying to make a new template, and i have this idea of making tabs for my buttons, however if i make a button in flash once i click it i want the tab to stay up whilst you are on that page, however when i made the tab using gotoAndPlay etc when i roll over another tab it returns to its natural state.

If you dont understand just ask i will try reword it abit.

thanks in advance guys

[graphixgeek]

are you describing something like the amazon navigation tabs? and apple.com...etc.?

[Blitz]

yes exactly like the apple ones

[graphixgeek]

Since you are using a gotoAndPlay...I am assuming the pages are in the same fla/swf file (i.e. you're not loading external files). Does the page change as well when the "up" tab reverts back to being "down"? And does rolling over an inactive button trigger anything (an animation or change)?

[Nizz]

To make the buttons animate, you must do several things:

1) make the default button, and make it a button through at the properties tab
2) make the animations of the "pressed", "mouseover", and "mouseout" and make them graphic animations...
3) at the button object you'll see something like "up" "down" "over" "out" (I can't remember exactly, it's been a while since I've done this) and all you have to do is simply put the animations in those keyframes...

I hope you understood that, if not, tell me and I'll try to find a tutorial with pictures...