MultiStateButton

Kind of class: public class
Package:
Inherits from:
  • MovieClip
Classpath: org.asaplibrary.ui.buttons.MultiStateButton
File last modified: Friday, 13 May 2011, 22:20:34
MultiStateButton is a flexible button class that gives the designer the freedom to create timeline states and animations for buttons. The animation is driven by labeled keyframes in the timeline.

The button may start out without any keyframes and later be enhanced with up to nine labeled keyframes. There should be NO scripts that affect the position of the playhead (stops, gotoAnd...) in the button's timeline. After that, the designer may decide what other states need to be visualized in the animation chain:
multistatebutton_all.png

If any of these keyframes are missing, the flow will skip over them to the next possible keyframe. So it would be possible to have just a simple setup like this:
multistatebutton_simple.png

A bit more advanced is a button with 1 transition label plus an intro label:
multistatebutton_transitionlabel.png

Or one with a hard down state, but with an animated in and out sequence:
multistatebutton_animatedinout.png

Mouse activity is stacked, in order to maintain a fluid experience of the button's animation flow. In lengthy animated buttons this may very soon become irritating.

Summary

Constructor
Instance properties
  • tHitArea : MovieClip
    • Hitarea MovieClip.
Instance methods
  • setEnabled (inState:Boolean) : void
    • Enables/disables the button.

Constructor

MultiStateButton

function MultiStateButton()

Creates a new MultiStateButton.

Instance properties

tHitArea

tHitArea:MovieClip(read,write)

Hitarea MovieClip.

Instance methods

setEnabled

function setEnabled(inState:Boolean) : void

Enables/disables the button. When switching the enabled state the button will always jump to label "up".

Parameters
inState:state of the button