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How do I get an additional text on rollover?

Apr 18, 2012 9:43 AM

Hi guys,

 

So I'm looking to get an extra text to show when hovering over a thumbnail.

 

Situation: I have a thumbnail linking to a page (frame in timeline) with a YouTube video on it. So I want the title of the video to show up under the thumbnail upon rollover.

What I use: Flash CS5 & Actionscript 3

 

Anyone know how to get this done?

1462 Views   12 Replies   Latest reply: LaurensNL, Apr 23, 2012 1:16 PM
 
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  • Ned Murphy
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    1. Ned Murphy,
    Apr 18, 2012 1:03 PM   in reply to LaurensNL
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    Assign a ROLL_OVER MouseEvent listener and have its event handler function display text in wahetver textfield you intend to use for it.

     
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  • LaurensNL
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    2. LaurensNL,
    Apr 19, 2012 12:01 PM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Allright so I went back into my handy code snippets panel and added a mouse over event and in my actions frame window it says to start my own custom code.

    Is this what you mean and if so what would be the code for me to insert?

     

    Also, after where my code goes it says: trace("Moused over"); ... What does this do and should I replace "Moused over" with the instance name of my tekst box?

     
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    Apr 19, 2012 12:19 PM   in reply to LaurensNL
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    What the trace does is tells you that the mouseover occured. I have no idea why they add that, but you can remove it all.  In place of it you could put the code to assign the text to the textfield...   yourtextfield.text = "whatever text you want to show";

     
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    Apr 19, 2012 12:59 PM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    You seem to desire a simple GUI method of doing this. Unfortunately that's not the case.

     

    You need to associate and extract the information from the object you roll over in order to replace it.

     

    In other words, when you see a Green Saleen Mustang, your eyeballs extract "Green" by looking at it. But that's only because the owner painted it like that.

     

    You need to find a way to associate the infromation with the object that it belongs to. So you need to associate the information with the image/video that is rolled over.

     

    This doesn't tell you how to do it but do you understand so far?

     
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    Apr 19, 2012 2:40 PM   in reply to sinious
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    Yeah I get it, I build the site, I tell it what to do. If I want something to effect something else I have 2 link the 2 of them through code.

     
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    Apr 19, 2012 3:42 PM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Thanks, I'm allmost there only the title I put in is not showing up on rollover and I'm getting the error: URL not found..

     
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    Apr 19, 2012 4:30 PM   in reply to LaurensNL
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    Errors will often stop any processing from working properly.  Since the rollover shouldn't have anything to do with a URL, you'll have to figure out why some file is not being loaded or whatever you are trying to do that involves an external file.

     
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  • LaurensNL
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    8. LaurensNL,
    Apr 20, 2012 12:23 AM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Oke, well my computer doesn't have an internet connection so I have been contantly getting URL error messages. But they didn't stop any code from working and I'm still getting them in addition to the new error code I'm getting since the new rollover text function.

     

    So that would mean that this specific URL error code is being caused by the new code. What do you think?

     
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  • Ned Murphy
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    Apr 20, 2012 4:14 AM   in reply to LaurensNL
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    It is highly unlikely that the rollover is causing a URL error if the rollover is only trying to write to a textfield.  URL errors normally involve mis-targeting a file.  If you show the code you used for the rollover it will be easier to tell if it could be related..

     

    If you don't have an internet connection and the functionality of your file depends on it, you should comment out the code that causes those errors so that you do not have them interfering with things working.  URL errors will stop a file from working.  Also, URL errors usually erupt from loading files, which does not necessitate having an internet connection, just a correct path targeting the files.

     
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  • LaurensNL
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    10. LaurensNL,
    Apr 23, 2012 11:51 AM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Can we start again.. My site is now online, I couldn't wait any longer because I need it for my buisness so I got rid of the code that wasn't working.

    But I still need a rollover text to appear so..

     

    1) I go into the code snippets and add a mouse over event

    2) In my actionscript I add your text: yourtextfield.text = "whatever text you want to show";

     

    So do I make an empty text field first, give it a name and replace "yourtextfield" with the name?

    Or do I replace "whatever text you want to show" with my text and thats just it?

    Or both?

     

    Or am I way off?

     
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  • Ned Murphy
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    Apr 23, 2012 12:17 PM   in reply to LaurensNL
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    Try all of the things you just asked about and you might end up with what you want.

     
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  • LaurensNL
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    Apr 23, 2012 1:16 PM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Yep, both of them! And it only works with tlf text not classic.

     
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