pop up box with a close button

[pauZe]

umm i was wondering how you make a pop up box appear, in the flash window, once you have clicked on a button
and for it also to have a close button

any help would be much appriciated

[Mike]

There are a few ways to do it..

I tend to create my popup as a MovieClip and keep it off stage somewhere then to make the popup appear I tween it into place, and to make it popout I simply have a buttton in the movie clip that tweens it back down.

eg:

Make your popup window as a movieClip and give it the instance name MyClip_mc

Then make a button on the main stage to make the window popup, give this an instance of Pop_btn

Inside your MyClip_mc popup MovieClip you want another button to click to get rid of it, give this the instancename PopDown_btn

On your main stage make a new layer, name it actions, and in the first frame enter the ActionScript:

function TweenItY(what, pos, time) {
easeType = mx.transitions.easing.Strong.easeOut;
ballTween = new mx.transitions.Tween(what, "_y", easeType, what._y, pos, time, false);
}
Pop_btn.onRelease=function() {
       TweenItY(MyClip_mc,200,15);
}
MyClip.PopDown_btn=function() {
       TweenItY(MyClip_mc,1000,15);
}

This basically says when the pop button is pressed it will Tween the popup to the specified Y axis coordinate (ie: On Screen and displayed) and when the close button is pressed it will tween it to another Specified Y avix coordinate (ie: Off screen and out of view).