What Does this button do? AS3 Help

[TheGrayK]

Not unclear I got it I just wanted to keep others from being confused 
Anyway my first successful, practical, completely original code !

Code:

finger.alpha=0;

finger.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,mouseover);
function mouseover(event:MouseEvent):void{
finger.alpha=100;
}

finger.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT,mouseout);
function mouseout(event:MouseEvent):void{
finger.alpha=0;
}

I know I could probably find this out by looking around a bit but I'm to lazy so here I go,
Is there a hotkey for accessing the actionscript window?

[Jaehl]

F9

[TheGrayK]

Thanks! 

[TheGrayK]

Ok so I have kinda stopped reading the manual (its a little overwhelming  )
And i was how to make this work you should be able to see what im trying to do here

Code:

spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, up);
spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, up)
function up(event:MouseEvent):void{
spiral.scaleX=+1;
spiral.scaleY=+1;
}

[Jaehl]

Well, for one thing, =+ doesn't really mean anything. (Basically you're just making the variable equal to +1, so the plus sign is superfluous.)

I'm going to assume you meant +=.

Also, MouseEvent.CLICK and MouseEvent.UP are quite similar, so you don't need both of them. The difference between them is that CLICK requires you to press the mouse button down while you're hovering over the object, and release it while still hovering over it, whereas with UP, you could press the mouse button down elsewhere, move the cursor over the object and release it.

Hope that helps. 

[TheGrayK]

Thank you Jaehl   
I was assuming up meant direction and not release
and you helped out alot here is the new code and
I changed it from clicking to mouse over left the name of the
function the same im not trying to build something large just playing.

Code:

spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, up);
function up(event:MouseEvent):void{
spiral.scaleX+=.01;
spiral.scaleY+=.01;
}

And here is the result!
<a href="http://www.truploader.com/uploads/209914makeabigspiral.swf" target="_blank">http://www.truploader.com/uploads/209914makeabigspiral.swf</a>

[supermoose]

also, +=1 is a "sloppy" way of doing this call.  The "professional" way of doing is is ++.  This doesn't work for an increment of 0.01 like your second example has, but to increment a counter, or to increase any variable by 1, use ++.  It's not an important difference, but if you want to officially publish any of your code, it may make you look a smidge more pro.

Code:

spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, up);
spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, up)
function up(event:MouseEvent):void{
spiral.scaleX++;
spiral.scaleY++;

[Edit]  Jaehl is right, I didn't hit backspace enough times.  I need to stop editing code at 3 am 

[Jaehl]

Code:

spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, up);
spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, up)
function up(event:MouseEvent):void{
spiral.scaleX=++;
spiral.scaleY=++;

That should be ++, rather than =++.

[TheGrayK]

Okay so now i ask how would i make this object continuously scale up without having to repeat what ever action i have assigned to call that function?
If that makes sense?

[Jaehl]

Something like this would do:

Code:

//This variable determines whether the spiral should be scaling up or not
var keepScaling:Boolean = false;

//Seeing as how it's a very simple function, rather than declaring it elsewhere, I created an anonymous function inside the event listener
spiral.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function() { keepScaling = true; });

//Assigns an event that is called each time the timeline begins a new frame
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, main);
function main(event:Event) {
if (keepScaling) {
spiral.scaleX += 0.1;
spiral.scaleY += 0.1;
}
}

[TheGrayK]

Code:

gotoAndStop(1);

test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hovertest);
function hovertest(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outtest);
function outtest(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop (1);
}

Anybody have an idea as to why this isn't working at all?

[brettamatowski]

I had explained quite a bit until my internet crashed, so here it is in short.

You should have two different keyframes for each function.  The first keyframe should be your MOUSE_OUT, and the next keyframe should be your MOUSE_OVER.

Which leaves you with:

Code:

gotoAndStop(1);

test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hovertest);
function hovertest(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outtest);
function outtest(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop (1);
}

Atleast I think this would work.  I'm fairly new to coding as well, but I know quite a bit from reading up on some stuff.

[TheGrayK]

Thanks I think I was Just about to make that discover I just hadn't looked at the code yet
I made an extra frame at the beginning to set up for this though.
Thanks for the help man it is much appreciated.

Edit:
Ok so I did all of the frame adjustments but know something strange is happening here is the code and the swf so you can see for your self

Code:

test.gotoAndStop(1);

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, homeclick);
function homeclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://toonani.webs.com/");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, aboutclick);
function aboutclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/about.htm");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, contactclick);
function contactclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/contact.htm");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

works.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, worksclick)
function worksclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/works.htm");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hovertest);
function hovertest(event:MouseEvent):void{
test.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outtest);
function outtest(event:MouseEvent):void{
test.gotoAndStop(1);
}

<a href="http://www.truploader.com/uploads/181509Test.swf" target="_blank">http://www.truploader.com/uploads/181509Test.swf</a>

The circle is the test instance and I have a black bg set behind at 1 opacity to set up borders so that things like this dont happen.

Edit:
I also have some action script inside the movie clip telling it to stop before it loops. I dont think that would mess it up though.

[TheGrayK]

Bump so that everyone will know!
I Fixed it and I am very dumb!
I had a timeline in the scene that was the problem
really.
anyway here is all of the effin code and the swf.
<a href="http://toonani.webs.com/misc/Tabbednavi.swf" target="_blank">http://toonani.webs.com/misc/Tabbednavi.swf</a>

Code:

home.gotoAndStop(1);
about.gotoAndStop(1);
contact.gotoAndStop(1);
works.gotoAndStop(1);

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, homeclick);
function homeclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, homehover);
function homehover(event:MouseEvent):void{
home.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, homeout);
function homeout(event:MouseEvent):void{
home.gotoAndStop(1);
}

about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, aboutclick);
function aboutclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/about.htm");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, abouthover);
function abouthover(event:MouseEvent):void{
about.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, aboutout);
function aboutout(event:MouseEvent):void{
about.gotoAndStop(1);
}

contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, contactclick);
function contactclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/contact.htm");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, contacthover);
function contacthover(event:MouseEvent):void{
contact.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, contactout);
function contactout(event:MouseEvent):void{
contact.gotoAndStop(1);
}

works.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, worksclick)
function worksclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.toonani.webs.com/works.htm");
    navigateToURL(request,"_self");
}

works.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, workshover);
function workshover(event:MouseEvent):void{
works.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

works.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, worksout);
function worksout(event:MouseEvent):void{
works.gotoAndStop(1);
}

[Jaehl]

It might make things easier if you put the "hover" and "out" functions into one function each. Like so:

Code:

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hover);
about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hover);
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hover);
works.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, hover);
function hover(event:MouseEvent):void{
event.target.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);
about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);
works.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);
function out(event:MouseEvent):void{
event.target.gotoAndStop(1);
}