text morph rollover

[melA~16]

hi!!
i'm not sure which forum to put this in but..here goes::
i know how to create a text morph in flash [basic right] but what i really need is...when i have that in my website [dreamweaver] how do you create a rollover text morph effect...so when your cursor is placed over the top of the original text it morphs to something else?
Any ideas would be appreciated!!

Thanks

Mel

[bathurst_guy]

morphs to something else... can you be a little more specific? Like to a different colour, or to an image.. or what

[nshiell]

What exactly r u trying 2 do

[PhillMc]

Yes, please elaborate. :)

[melA~16]

Sorry about that guys:: what i mean is that...when you place your cursor over the text it morphs into a different font [sizes/typeface]...I know how to create a looping animation in flash...but I only want the text to morph when someone places their cursor over it

[PhillMc]

Sorry about that guys:: what i mean is that...when you place your cursor over the text it morphs into a different font [sizes/typeface]...I know how to create a looping animation in flash...but I only want the text to morph when someone places their cursor over it

Ok,

this is best done with css, such as:

a {
font: monospace;
font-size: 10px;
}

a:hover {
font: serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

Where 'a' is the color and font of any normal link, and 'a:hover' is the color and font of any link that is hovered (mouse cursor on top of) over.

Does this help?

edit:
I'm leaving work now and wont be able to help any further, but I'm sure just about anyone else can help you the rest of the way through. :)

[melA~16]

Thanks very much for that...that *kind of* helps...ok...i'll try to explain it better:
I have created a morphing text animation in Flash MX pro [morphs original text into a new word :D)...and i'd like to insert it into my website [using dreamweaver mx] and then,,,make it so that ONLY when the users cursor is over the top of it does it START to morph...yup..so if there's anyone out there with any ideas that would be great!! also, thx phil for the normal rollover effect info...but anyway

thanks

[bathurst_guy]

make what you have a movie clip and then make a new button, then insert that movie clip into the hover state of the button...

[melA~16]

ermmm...how do you "insert that movie clip into the hover state of the button"? sorry i'm not very good at this :S but thx

[bathurst_guy]

do you know how to do the steps before that? If so, once you have your button, there are 4 stages in the timeline, up, hover, down and clickable area. You can select the hover state and just drag your movie clip that will be in the library onto the, whats the name they call it, the document area.. um, scene or something, the white area lol, and yeh, then just save that button, you then can also use actionscript to it so when they click on it it takes them to another page just like a link.

[bathurst_guy]

well i whipped up this little thing (http://resources.sdstudio.com.au/flash_button.php) for you to look at, i stated from the start so i can use it as a sort of tutorial for others aswell. Hope it helps. Oh remember I "whipped it up" so its definately a rush job.

[melA~16]

awsum!! thank you SO much!! it's realli easy to understand too!! thanks again!! i'll try that...i'm pretty sure it should work now thanks again!!

meL

[melA~16]

hang on...there's only one bit that i'm not sure of:: Step 12-> "Go to the Up state, and drag the Graphic of the text into the document, place it in the exact same place"
yah...i'm not sure how to do that...but so far the steps have been pretty straightforward ... so thanks!!

[bathurst_guy]

ok what if i change to this:
Go to the Up state, and drag the Graphic of the text (from the Library - F11) into the document, place it in the exact same place as it appears on the Over state...

[melA~16]

ahhh...now i understand!! thank you SO much once again!! it's actually working!! thanks again i really appreaciate your help!

meL