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When designing in Flash, using a button symbol for an animated button presents several problem. The biggest problem for most designers being, if you put an animation in the roll over state, it'll snap back to the beginning once you roll out. Today I’ll show you one way you can approach animated buttons using a MovieClip and the nextFrame() and prevFrame() methods. The advantage to this method is when you hover on the button then mouse off, it’ll play backwards from wherever it is, instead of snapping to the beginning the way it would if you designed it using the built-in button symbols.






