Flash Rollover Expansion

[yochanda]

Just wondering how to create a text box that expands to reveal more text upon rollover in Flash 8. Please help! Have searched with no results.

[-FMA]

Not sure if this would fully work, but you might have some luck by,

-Create a sprite
-Goto Actionscript, and put a stop to the first frame of the sprite.
-Create your first box in the second frame of the sprite and create the second box in the third frame (what it will display when you mouseover.)
-Create a motion tween, if desired.
-Goto actionscript and script the sprite to go to and play .spritename frame 2 on mouse rollover and go to and play frame 1 on mouse rollout. (or you could create another object at the top right corner with some text that says "restore/retract" and script that to retract instead of a mouse rollout.

As for the text, I'd have to look into that, maybe experiment. I'm sure it would be a lot easier to include the text content inside the sprite, or maybe as a seperate spirte within the opening box sprite.

I'll check it out.

Can you show me what you're working on? Upload the .swf so I can take a look, if you can.

-FMA

[-FMA]

Alright, check this out and tell me if it's along the lines of what you're looking for.

I just whipped that up and suprisingly, it didn't take much to create.

Edit: I can make it smoothly retract when you rollout instead of abruptly returning to it's original state, but it was a quickie.



-FMA