moving button problem

Im trying to make a moving button, one that is constantly moving slowly around until mouseover, where the animation stops, and something happens.

My problems are these:

I can get the button to stop the animation, but the way im doing it means that i have to do an action for every frame of animation. Surely theres a way of just saying 'for all instances of this button, do this'

problem two is very similar. Once the animation stops, i want the button to kind of expand to explain what its subheadings are etc, i assume that should all be done within the button animation [ie insert frames into 'mouse over' section. Again though, i can currently only apply this per instance.

Anyone able to help?

as long as all instances of your button are named you only need to do this once, from the main timeline:


then to implement to tolltips on mouseover you need another mc on the first frame of moving_btn, with nothing but a stop() action on it's first frame....then name the next frame "display" or something and change your code to:

i couldnt get that to work, i got an error, but i found this:

http://www.webwasp.co.uk/flash-samp...utton/index.htm

so problem is solved. Thanks anyway mate!


ps error was:

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler
moving_btn.onRollOver = function() {

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 5: Statement must appear within on handler
moving_btn.onRollOut = function() {

unfortunately im new to this flash game so i couldnt really figure out what it meant. Doh.