Animated and Rollover help (not a newb question)

[mikeguy3086]

Here is my problem. I searched here and found something that made sense, however when I did it, it did not work.

I'm building a site and heres the deal. I have two links. When you rollover one link I want the other to fade out. Not just with alpha, because I don't want it to be clickable. And when you roll out, I want it to fade back in.

These two links aren't actually links as much as they are rollovers to display links. If I am being confusing let me try and clear things up.

I have a bar that rolls out, these two links will on this bar, one on the left and one on the right. I want to be able to have it so when you click rollover the left link-it's sub menu displays horizontally. While at the same time, the right link fades out. And vice versa. I have been trying to figure this out all day and it there seems to be no good news in sight. Any ideas? (and I'd like to keep it all on one frame instead of skipping around).

[ghostface]

Hi,

You can place the link/buttons into movieclips. Example:

place button1 on movieclip with instance name=btn01
place button2 on movieclip with instance name=btn02

On btn01 movieclip
put stop on the first frame. This will display the button/link
on the second frame, just put a blank frame or a fading animation and a stop() actionscript at the end. Do the same for btn02

on the button inside btn01 put this.

on(rollOver)
{
_root.btn02.gotoAndStop(2); //this will make the button disappear
}

or if you have a fading animation

on(rollOver)
{
_root.btn02.gotoAndPlay(2); //this will fade the button and disappear
}

Do the same with btn02.

Hope this helps.