URGENT HELP REQUIRED - Actionscript with movieclips

[sidphreak]

hey im fairly new to flash

im making a website in flash and have everyhitng but one thing sorted

i have a few pictures that link to a WMV that opens with media player movie (non-flash)

i have a seperate movieclips for each picture with a description

when i rollover the picture i want the correct movieclip to load up at the botttom of the page

can anyone give a small tutorial with the actionscript


this is urgent as my client needs it done by 4pm GMT

to make it easier i have a small diagram here



the blue boxes are my images

i want people to rollover that
when they rollover, they see the picture again and a description (in a movieclip) in the red box


i have 6 pictures

the movieclips are called

mc0 - default movieclip
mc1 - picture 1 description
mc2 - picture 2 decription
mc3 - picture 3 description

and so on a soforth


the person ho gets thios to work will win a cheery without a stone

[NTD]

Hi

Welcome to the forum. Flash allows for many different ways to accomplish the same goal. Something like this could be achieved entirely with actionscript, but to keep it simple, my suggestion would be instead of seperate movieclips for each .... use a single movieclip with each image and description on a different frame and use a rollOver event to send the movieclip timeline to the correct frame...

Movieclip named "imageDescription"..... button code for rollover...

myButton.onRollOver=function(){
imageDescription.gotoAndStop("frameLabel");
}

hope it helps
NTD

[prodigymunky]

I'm not sure if I understand you entirely, but here's what I think I understand.

In the flash movie, you just want the pictures at the top, and a place to show the descriptions at the bottom, correct?

When you mouse over the images, you want the description to appear, and when you click on the images, you want the movie to play in an external player.

Ok ... here goes ...

1.) Make sure all the images are turned into buttons. If you have alread done this, skip to step 2.

• For each image :
  Place the image on the main screen
  Right click on it and choose Convert to Symbol
  Give it a name and make sure Button is selected

2.) Place your 1st picture description movie (mc1 I believe) on the main screen below the pictures

3.) Right click on mc1 and choose Convert to Symbol

• Give it a name and make sure Movie is selected

4.) On the main screen, click on the movie you just created and under properties and give it an Instance Name (found right under the drop-down to select the type of symbol), I'll use movDesc for our purposes

5.) Double click on the movie to open it

• You'll see there is only one layer and one frame in it
  For every picture that you have (minus one because the first description is already there), create a blank frame on an odd frames in the layer
  ........So for example if you have 6 pictures, you will have frames that start at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11
  Add one more blank frame to the next odd frame (13 in this case) and then remove it (this extends the 11 frame to cover 11 & 12)
  Highlight all the frames and move them over 2 spots (so 1 & 2 are a combined blank frame)
  Go to frame 5 (the first blank one after the one that has the first picture description in it) and drag the second picture description onto the scene (make sure it's centered horizontally and vertically)
  Do this for each picture description moving to the next odd frame each time (again, make sure it's centered horizontally and vertically)
  Insert another layer
  Highlight all the frames in that layer and convert them all to blank frames
  Now add code to all the even frames in this new layer with just the code stop();

6.) Exit out to the main scene

7.) Edit the code for the first picture (button) and enter this code

on(rollOver) {
	movDesc.gotoAndPlay(3);
}
on(rollOut) {
	movDesc.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
on(release) {
	getURL("http://www.yoursite.com/nameOfMovie.swf","_blank");
}

• Continue for each button, incrementing the number in the rollOver command by 2 each time, leaving the number in the rollOut command alone

Let me know if I got this all correct and if it helps you out.