Hey everyone...

I need help doing this in flash. So I have a navigation bar with 4 buttons (home/shop/support/bio). Now what I want done is when a user puts cursor over like "home" I want the text to fade out and a small image of a house I made to fade in (image that matches button). Now first off would I need any actionscript to do this? Then could someone help me do this...I have no clue.

Thanks
BrandBurnMedia

You can do this with AS or using the button instance and the timeline.

Heres how to do a 'simple' animation technique with a button which you can also apply when using images:

- Create your image (off status)
- Convert to a symbol (button)
- Double click on the button to enter its timeline
- Create a key frame on the OVER state
- In that new keyframe, once again select the whole button and convert to a symbol (MOVIE CLIP)
- Double click on the new movie clip
- Create a keyframe at frame 10
- Select frame 10, change it to what you want
- Select and frame between 1 and 10 and create a motion tween

Easy as that.

I've attached an example but you will need flash 8.

Cheers

okay thanks, so doing what you explained I can do my text to graphic fade effect?

Thanks!

Sure.
I've replaced the example with a new one...Gee i'm a nice guy

Btw, one word of advice. When making menus, it's not best practice using flash as SEO becomes an issue. You want bots to be able to crawl properly. so using flash u'd have to apply some workarounds or include a sitemap.

Disassemble it and try and build it again, it's the best way to learn.

http://rapidshare.com/files/16741721/demo.fla

Cheers.