Can I call a rollOver event without the user having too roll the mouse over a button?

[Robby Grossman]

Hello,

I have a button that when rolled over, is highlighted. However, I'd also like it to be highlighted when the user selects a certain item from a ListBox. Is this possible to do natively with the Button control?

Thanks!
Robby

[Robby Grossman]

Sorry, let me word that a little better, what it comes down to is...

Can I explicitly call an event via actionscript?

[Xeef]

hi and welcome to As.Org


no you can't


but if you have something like
btn.onPress=function (){.....

you can triger this whit :

btn.onPress()

[Robby Grossman]

hi and welcome to As.Org


no you can't


but if you have something like
btn.onPress=function (){.....

you can triger this whit :

btn.onPress()
Yikes, thanks for the info.

Does this mean that if I want to have a "button" that changes state on a mouseover AND changes state when other things happen, I have to go back and convert it to movie clips and code the mouse-overs manually? :(

[flashead]

Does this mean that if I want to have a "button" that changes state on a mouseover AND changes state when other things happen, I have to go back and convert it to movie clips and code the mouse-overs manually?
The short answer is: Yes.

The not so short answer (and arguably the moral to the story): Always use movie clips as buttons right from the beginning of ALL your projects, no matter how simple they might be. Take the time to make a generic one that you can copy paste into any projects (kinda like a component but not as complex) and with minimal/no coding changes it will work with all your projects ;)

[Robby Grossman]

The short answer is: Yes.

The not so short answer (and arguably the moral to the story): Always use movie clips as buttons right from the beginning of ALL your projects, no matter how simple they might be. Take the time to make a generic one that you can copy paste into any projects (kinda like a component but not as complex) and with minimal/no coding changes it will work with all your projects ;)
Live and learn, good advice :)

Thanks.
Robby