Flash CS3 button click-away question

[jamesjh]

How can I make a movie clip button disappear when it is clicked away from? So if the user clicks the button and a menu comes out, but then the user clicks another part of the screen, the menu goes back in? Any ideas - I can't see it in the code hints.

[jamiemac2005]

What's your code to show the menu?

Could you give me an example of the code you're using so far?

Or if you like you can zip up the .fla and i'll have a look and help you out.

Cheers,
Jamey

[jamesjh]

Jamey

My whole movie is 35Mb (is that big?) so I've just attached the one movie clip in question.
I don't know much Actionscript yet so please bear with me if I'm doing it totally the wrong way.
It is essentially a drop down menu that i'm trying to do.

Thanks

James.

[jamiemac2005]

Originally Posted by jamesjh

My whole movie is 35Mb (is that big?)

35MB is very large, do you have embedded videos/pics in the movie? because it may be adviseable that you dynamically embed them instead (basically cus 35mb could take about 10 mins to load on the web.

I did what i consider to be a big project for my ICT c/w not too long ago and the final main movie was 857kb but i dynamically embedded my vids&pics...

I'll take a look at the movie now and see what i can do to help you. I'll get back to you ASAP.

Cheers,
Jamey

[FredT]

If you want an object to disappear, you could use

something.visible = false; //AS3
or
something._visible = false; //AS2

If that's what you're looking for...

[FredT]

Oh, I just looked at your .fla, so you have a MOUSE_OVER event listener, and then it continues playing the timeline which shows the things rolling out...

If you add an event listener that is MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, then that will detect when the person isn't hovering over the button any more and you can use the same concept of playing the timeline, except tween the stuff back in (so it disappears).

Does that make sense?

[jamesjh]

Originally Posted by jamiemac2005

35MB is very large, do you have embedded videos/pics in the movie? because it may be adviseable that you dynamically embed them instead (basically cus 35mb could take about 10 mins to load on the web.

I think the large file size may be due to the fact that I created a little movie clip for making an image enlarge and then a pop-out description appear, then I duplicated it about twenty five times for all the different images on the site. This may seem a dumb way to do it but my AS is limited, and also how can you control a motion tween within AS? I've been reading some tutorials and can see that there are probably far more efficient ways of doing what I want using classes. I feel I'm still a long way away from being able to do that though.
Thanks for the help everyone!