flash (macromedia): I have a movie clip with two buttons that aren't supposed to show until you
click on one of three other buttons that take you to a slideshow, I have three
categories with about forty pic's and the next and previous button show up
right away when I test scene, they are at the tenth and I have no idea why they
would show up right away. Any idea's or comments would be appreciated.

ferlyman,

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There are probably a dozen ways to accomplish this goal, so we'll need
more information.

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How are they set up? Are they right there in the timeline with your
other visual assets?

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At the tenth ... frame? Tenth what? :)

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You might put these buttons into a movie clip and hide the movie clip
(via its _visible or _alpha properties, or by moving it off Stage); you
might reference the buttons themselves (via the same); you might move these
buttons to frames that appear later. The list goes on.


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

They are in my movie clip timeline, I have them on the tenth frame where if
you click on one of the category buttons and they take you to the slideshow
that starts and that is when they are supposed to appear. They are each on
there own layer, there is a blank keyframe and then blank frames up till the
tenth frame where the first slide show starts. Should I have them on the main
stage and make them load movie instead? I don't know what else to tell you
David, I'm sure it's something simple but I don't see why it would do this.

ferlyman,

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Okay, no problems yet, that I can see. You have a movie clip on the
main timeline, and inside this movie clip, you have two buttons on the tenth
frame.

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Assuming your movie is at 12fps (frames per second) or faster (12 is the
default) it would take less than one second for those buttons to show up --
unless you stop the movie clip they're in. Movie clips just *go* unless you
tell them to stop. Have you done that?

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You can put them wherever you want. It may make perfect sense to
contain them in a movie clip. But you do have to understand how movie clips
work, just like any other tool. :)


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Use the Debugger panel to see the actual _currentframe property of the
movie clip that contains those buttons. Then you'll know for sure. The
good thing is, it's programming, man ... there's no guess work. Once you
see the lay of the land -- you simply must not be aware of all that's going
on yet -- you code accordingly.


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

I have put a stop action above the buttons on the first frame and they are
still there, it's not like it's playing the movie clip, it's like the buttons
are there on the first frame of my movie clip and then they disappear when I
click on the next button as it goes to the tenth frame and stops and then the
buttons show up like there suppossed to. Gonna go mess with them and try to
figure them out cause it's really annoying me.

Hey David, yeah I don't know what the heck is going on in the debugger, I don't
know anything about code, I go to debug movie but I don't know what I'm looking
for, the _current frame is non excesible and I can't seem to figure it out so
I'm going to try and read up on this debugger and debug movie. I don't like
code,lol, I just want it to work like I made it,lol.

ferlyman,

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The Debugger is mainly for code, but not entirely. :)

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You're looking for the _level0 node in the upper left hand corner. Find
the movie clip in question via its instance name. Click on that, look in
Properties, below.


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."