View The Hit Area By Enabling Buttons; Change The Hit Area Of A Button - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

128 Basic Tasks: Add Button Animation and Navigation
View the hit area by enabling
buttons
When the Enable Simple Buttons feature is active, you can view the less
complex aspects of your buttons, such as the hit area (the clickable area of a
button) and the colors used for the button states. More complex button
design, such as animation, does not play.
1.
Click in an empty space in the workspace to make sure you don't have
any objects selected.
2.
Select Control > Enable Simple Buttons, and move the mouse pointer
over different areas of the button that you created.
The only areas of the button that are clickable (as indicated when the
pointer changes to a hand) are the text area and the logo. The white
space around the text and logo are not clickable.
3.
Select Control > Enable Simple Buttons again to deselect the feature so
that you can edit the button.
Next, you'll redefine the hit area so that the button area covers the entire
grouped area.

Change the hit area of a button

You can specify a hit area that's a different size from the default hit area by
adding a keyframe to the Hit frame of the button symbol, and then
drawing a shape that defines the hit area.
1. On the Stage, double-click the logo button that you created to view the
button Timeline. The button Timeline contains the following states:
Up
Over
Down
Hit
2. Double-click the Layer 1 name in the Timeline and rename the layer
Hit Area.