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Stylish buttons alpha effect using actionscript

In this flash tutorial you will learn how to make a very useful alpha tween effect controlled by flash actionscripting.

This is quite simple all you need is a button, image or what ever you need to add this effect to, as long as you will convert it to a movie clip and thats what we will do first.

Import your button to the stage, right click and convert it to a movie clip.

Now go to the properties panel and give our new movie clip an instance name, I named my button "btn_1" as you can see in the image below.

Now all we have to do is to write the actionscript code, I have made a screenshot of the code, so you will have the same syntax and color code as flash will make it.

Remember when you type in actionscript code in AS3 you do not select any movie clips when you hit F9 to get to the actionscript panel, just type in the code in layer1.

Thats it, you are done, try to test your flash movie button now.