change button alpha on mouse over

[miro20 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi

I have made plain rectangular buttons for a movie and have set the 'transparent' option to 40% so that the background shows through and the button appears translucent.

What I want to do is add a mouse over state for the button changing the transparent option to 80% so that it becomes more opaque in appearance. So far I have only used the script:

on mouseenter me
sprite(the currentspritenum).membernum=2
updateStage
end

on mouseleave me
sprite(the currentspritenum).membernum=1
updateStage
end

I am trying to change this so that only the transparency property of the sprite is changed but can't get it right :-(

on mouseenter me
sprite(the currentspritenum).ink=1
updateStage
end

on mouseleave me
sprite(the currentspritenum).ink=1
updateStage
end

but how can I set the LEVEL of transparency? - or am I barking up the wrong tree?

thanks
Karen

[Rob Dillon]

Hi Karen,

You want to change the blend value of the sprite:

on mouseEnter me
sprite(me.spriteNum).blend = 50
end

on mouseLeave me
sprite(me.spriteNum).blend = 100
end

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Rob
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