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Creating Easy Flash-Style Tooltips

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All we need to do now is take the tooltip away when the mouse rolls out. Insert a new on (rollOut) command, and a new gotoAndStop command inside that:

on (rollOut) {
this.gotoandStop (1) ;
}

It’s very similar to the first, and accomplishes much the same thing: at the specified mouse action, it jumps the current movie clip to the appropriate frame, and holds it there--this time on the frame with the tooltip absent. Now you should have an easy roll in-roll out tooltip, without any complicated scripting.

Have a little looksee at how it works.

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