ActionScript Show buttons when I hover a certain area

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I am trying to achieve an effect in Flash. The effect in question is that when I hover a certain area I want my navigation (6 movie clips that acts as a button) to appear and disappear when I move my mouse out. The trouble is that right now I Can make then appear but I cannot click them nor mouse over them since I've put a transparent (alpha = 0 ) over them.

I'd like a solution or hint of a solution in AS2 but I am open to AS3 solutions as well.

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The alpha property shouldn't influence the mouse behaviour. You are using listeners, right? Perhaps you could post the code in question, it would make it a lot easier to help you. – Max Dohme

4 Answers

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I suggest you use myClip_mc.visible = false;

Then use a MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER for the thing you are mousing over to show myClip_mc -- and in the function, say:

myClip_mc.visible = true;

Using Alpha is not the best practice in this case.

If you need a fade-in effect, that's different.

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You can always use actionscript!

area.onRollover = function() {
    btn._alpha = 100;
}

area.onRollOut = function() {
    btn._alpha = 0;
}

I've used this code and worked for something like you're looking for.

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set mouseEnabled = false (and mouseChildren = false if it has children) on whatever's covering your navigation

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I don't know if this fits into your design or not, but instead of putting an invisible sprite over your navigation, make your navigation a child of that sprite. That way you can keep your listeners on the container sprite and still be able to click the navigation elements