Flash :: Building An Accessible Flash Navigation Menu

Clip Building Techniques Such That Each 'colour' Is Accessible By Code
Hi all,

This is a bit messy to describe but I think it's an interesting topic and I hope someone can shed some light for me.

There is a problem I've been toying with and I can't find a 'good' solution.

I'm working on a bunch of flash games. The animation style doesn't lend itself fully to automated tweening. Some things need to be redrawn on occassion. An example is a shoe. When the character walks, we have a few frames of handdrawn keyframes as the toe bends compared to the rest of the foot.

So far, so good.

I want - at a future date - to allow players to choose their character's colours and have them replace existing colours on my graphics.

For example, the girl character has tights with two tones. Just now, they are both shades of green. In the future, I will store (via 'normal' web site back end) profile informatin for each player and will allow them to chose two tones to repllace those on the tights.

Again, so far so good.

In theory.

As far as how to do this... forget the 'colour picking' part - that's easy. And ignore the webby back end bit - that's easy too.

But as far as I can see, when I apply a colour transform to a MovieClip, it changes the whole clip's colour.

This means that I need my artist to break each individual graphic she draws into a few movie clips and give the instances names.

I have been thinking that I would swap the colours in a fashion similar to this pseudocode:

Code:
start game
place character MC on the stage, invisible.
maintain a list of MC's (so far, just player avatar)
while ( MC list != empty) {
get next movie clip
examine each property of clip and if "instanceof MovieClip" is true, add it to my list
examine "_name" of the MC to see if it contains a predefined word (such as "skintone" - so 'ankle_skintone')
if (match) {
look up table and apply colour transform
}
}
OK. so you may suggest a better route - but in a very small demo, this works fine.

BUT!

Because the animation has redrawn keyframes, when I hit a new keyframe for whatever MC needs one, the NEW drawing hasn't had its colours changed.

It's obvious, and I can see why (it's not on stage in my initial loop).

What isn't obvious is how I can fix this issue.

Now, I COULD make sure that the animator places each component-graphic on the stage in the MC's initial frame - and manages key framing by controlling x/y and _visible - but that's a bit messy.

I could also ask the artist to put a function call or something in every key frame, but IMHO that's a terrible idea! - It's messy, it spreads my code all over the place... it has an artist programming... bad bad bad.

The whole thing is quite messy already actually, because it requires such careful breaking down and building up of MC's.

So...

I have either one question or two!

"The one question version"

Can you advise how, with my current implementation idea, I can access 'future' MC's - so with a 'leg' MC, not just access the current 'tights_dark_green' and 'tights_light_green' areas, but also the future MC's corresponding areas?

"The two question version"

Is there a better way to do this ( '"palette switching" actionscript' Google searches didn't show up much)?

So...

Thanks for anyone who got this far!

Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Muchos Grazias!

David

Help With Flash Menu Building
Well, I am not expereinced in flash and I need a menu modified for me. the menu is attached and the changes I need made are below:

1) I need the top half of the menu deleted totally (the login section and domain check section) so only the 6 buttons and their background are seen.
2)I need the hosting button changed to say packages, support button to say network, about us button to say partners, partners button to say support and the contact us button to say forums. (all leters must be caps)
3) I want the 6 buttons to be centered (not aligned to the left) and they need to still float in from the bottom (and go straight up) when the menu loads. (So I need the menu buttosn centered at all times).

If you can do this please do so and send me back the .fla file so I can further modify it and publish it with my settings. Thank You.

Building A Dynamic Menu In Flash.
Short version:
I'm trying to build a menu exactly like this site has: http://www.ivangarcia.net/index.htm (popup)
Using: PHP-generated XML-file that contains the menu structure

Long version:
I have set out on this magnificent journey... blahblah... No really: I suck at building flash apps but I've set myself a small goal hoping to learn some things while I go, so I need a few pushes in the right direction.

I am trying to build a menu, just a menu. I want this menu to be built using a file with an XML structure. The menu should have max 3 levels, and should look like this one, sliding in and out smoothly: http://www.ivangarcia.net/index.htm

What I CAN make: A php file that when called builds an XML file for a tree structure (example 1) or a sub tree structure (example 2):

PHP Code:

// menu.php (example 1)
<main_menu>
   <item>Home</item>
   <item>News</item>
   <item>Links</item>
      <submenu>
         <item>Business</item>
         <item>Partners</item>
         <submenu>
            <item>
               <label>Macromedia</label>
               <url>[url]www.macromedia.com[/url]</url>
            </item>
         </submenu>
      </submenu>
</main_menu>

PHP Code:

// menu.php?main=links (example 2)
<submenu>
   <item>Business</item>
   <item>Partners</item>
   <submenu>
      <item>
         <label>Macromedia</label>
         <url>[url]www.macromedia.com[/url]</url>
      </item>
   </submenu>
</submenu>

What I can't make: ... well... basically the rest of it

Any hints/clues?

I have read through a tutorial on how to load xml contents into a dynamic text area, but only as HTML text. Obviously I will need to be able to distinguish between objects that have an URL-link and objects that should make a submenu popping out.

Well... I could write lots and lots of more questions, but I dont want to discourage people from reading this by writing too damn much

Building Navigation
Hello All,

I was curious if anybody had any experience building a navigation that reacts like the one on http://www.squarewave.us. The collapsible menu on the left side.

Any examples or ideas from everybody would be great.

Thanks,
Brian

Building A Navigation Bar
I am building a navigation bar using several buttons. I have the buttons working properly, but when I click on a button and it loads the appropriate page, I want the button to display the down state. Is there a way to do this as a button?

I figure that I could convert the button to a movie clip, and put the down state on a designated frame and then do something like:
instanceName.gotoAndStop("downState");

But it seems that I should be able to call the down state for a button.

Thanks for any help pointing me in the right direction.
Brian

Building Navigation Like On Trevor Van Meter.com
Anyone have any idea how this was built?

http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flash.html

is there a componant out there or file or instructions that would help me get going?

thanks!

Building A XML Thumb Navigation / Portfolio / Gallery
Hello,

I would like to know how to generate a thumbnail based portfolio grid in AS3 that fetches all images declared as <thumb> in my XML with additional information like <title> <description> <bigImage> <category> for e.g and position in on the stage after loading it.

If the grid is built there should be some buttons to sort the thumbs based on its categories and if you "click" one of the thumb the bigger content should be loaded in some extra movie clip that automaticly scales the width and height properties of the image or swf content comming from the xml.

It should be possible to add tweening to the container that holds "all of these thumbs" and it should be possible to add tweening to every single thumb so that you can give them the look not comming up to the stage all at the same time and with custom tweening.

It would be really great if someone could help me, i am searching on this topic for months now and every tutorial i find does not cover all of these things

Thanks!

Help With Building Scrolling Navigation Based On A Circle.
this is a bit complex and I have tried many things with no luck.
If anyone could even get this started I would be more than happy...

The circle with the smaller circle is draggable, it spins around, and spinning one way it should scroll a mc behind a mask, and spinning the other way it should scroll the movie clip the opposite way...

I tried setting it up like a typical scroller but I can't get it to work...

Anyway take a peak... I deleted most of my code and commented the a small part of it so you can see where I was going with it...

cheers!

Help With Building A Menu.
I am trying to build a menu that when you roll over a up or down arrow it will allow you to move a set of thumb nails up and down on the edge of the flash movie? is there a source that any one can point me to or help ne with building this menu. here is a link to a site that has an example of what i am looking for. http://www.jimerickson.com/mainframe.html

Building Menu
I have seen a very beautiful menu in the site:

http://www.consumer500.com/home.htm

Can you help me building this. I am in trouble. Please help

Help Building Menu?
I need to build a flyout menu like the one pictured here. This menu will be imported into Director MX 2004 Prof. Has anyone done anything like this or can point me to a tutorial?

[AS] Menu Building Like This...
Hi people, i found this menu example from a project review

http://www.joshuadavis.com/portfolio...us/liquid_nav/

and this is the site where i found the example

WEBSITE

could you help me to build a menu like that? Bendings 'n stretching excluding, just transitions

Ciao ciao

Help Building A Menu
i'm stuck and quite franckly dont know where to start on this. My project requires a menu that goes as follow:

[item1] [item2] [item3] [item4] [item5] [item6] [item7] [item8]

when item4, for example, is clicked this is the end result:

[item4] [item1] [item2] [item3] [item5] [item6] [item7] [item8]

of course when item4 is clicked all the menu items shift in the right place complete with a ease out. It seems that more items could be added on the long run so i figure the buttons must be created dynamicaly from an array.

I will greatly appreciate help on this, i'm no programmer at all and this is out of my leagues i think...

Thanks

Flash, Accessible Or Not ?
maybe this wasnt quite the right place to post this but anyway...
working on a dissertation which generally debates weather flash is accessible or not.. in all ways really, eg.. search engine optimization, disabled users, back buttons etc...

i was just wondering what everyone els's views are on this, some developers despise flash and will always argue that code and css is better..

thanks for any opinions

joey.

Accessible Flash
Hi all,

I work for a web design company who for some reason have got it into their heads that flash = bad. The main concern is that it is not accessible to screen readers etc.

Is Flash accessible? What about in menu's / navigation?

Any help in this matter would be great

Flash Menu Navigation
Hi everyone
Its been a while since i used flash and im all rusted.So here goes,thing is im making a navigation for a website and want to add
some effects to it.The navigation consists of 20 items (links)and
what i would like to do is that when you have your mouse over a link,
that same link would go lets say 10 - 20 % brighter(color or alpha)
while the rest of the links would become almost transparent,this i would like to happen gradually (tweening).And when the mouse is off that link everything would go back into its original state.So im asking,is there anyone here that can get me going ? And id rather have all this tweening go on with actions instead of manually tweening on the timeline.Hope i made myself understood.

Thanx in advance

Using Flash For Navigation Menu
I have my swf in an iframe and another page I want to be load many different pages in another iframe. I have given my iframe a variable name but i cant figure out how to change the iframe using flash. I'm sure this is simple but I've never done anything like this with flash before.

Flash Menu Navigation
Can someone please help?!

I have made a nav. menu in Flash, with animted buttons. When a user click on a link/button, i would like that button to remain highlighted somehow (different color, font, arrow, etc.) to denote what section the user is in. Right now, when the user clicks a link, the animation run and ends in the "hit" state, however when the page reloads, the menu returns to its original form. The only way i have gotten this work the way i want to, is if I pop the url into a new window.

Thanks in advnace for your time!!!

Help With A Flash Navigation Menu
hey guys i traditionally just create sites in photoshop and upload them but i'm trying something new. i want to animate the navigation menu a certain way but i just don't know how to do it....i don't even know how to explain what i want it to do...but to give you guys an idea this site has exactly what i want to do with my navigation menu ...http://www.entheosweb.com/flash_website_templates/default.asp.....if you look at that site on pg 7 in the middle of the 9 templates is an example of what i want my navigation menu to do. If anyone can help with this i WOULD TOTALLY APPRECIATE IT!!!

thanks

Navigation Menu Bar With Flash
In order to replace a DHTML troublesome menu I made up my mind to design the very same
stuff with flash , despite I don´t know exactly how ;

The nav bar will have the following features :

- 6 items on the "main" menu , as the mouse rolls over one of them , it will drop down
its respective navigation buttons ;
- as the mouse rolls out the main menu button or one of its navigations button , the dropped down
menu in a couple of seconds is reseted to its original "neutral" position ;
- the menu items are (they´re already movie clip & instance names at a time ) by the order :

#1-mcenglish ,
#2-mcservices ,
#3-mcases ,
#4-mcprof ,
#5-mcontact ,
#6-mcflash ;

- mcenglish will have two buttons :
button bteng is responsible to collapse the bar , and
btenglish , which is a navigation button will be assigned with a geturl ;

- mcservices has 8 buttons :
btservices, btmaingoals , btsurvey , btsystan , bt const , bt homol , btimplan , btdatadm ;
btservices causes mcservices to run down the bar ;

- mcases has 6 buttons :
btcases , bthealth , btretail , btinsur , btindust , btarenautic ;
btcases runs down mcases ;

- mcprof is a diferent kind of bar , this one has a "sub menu" ;
it has 3 buttons :
btprofes responsible to run down mcprof , btprofile , and btrobvaz which opens to the right
the sub menu on which there are 3 more buttons : btresume, btprofexp ,btquotations ;

- mcontact has 7 buttons :
btcontact , btoplinks, btform , btemail , btsitemap , btwebmast , btwebdes ;
btcontact runs down mcontact ;

- mc flash , 2 buttons :
btflash and btsiteflash ;
bt flash runs down ;

I am feeling a bit uneasy at dealing with buttons because I realized that every time
I assign more than one command to a button , it becames quirk and sometimes fails
as it is clicked ...... and all I don´t want is to get nut with this menu ;

.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..
I´ve had troubles with this action , note that even the releaseOutside has not
assured the proper functioning :

on (release, releaseOutside) {
gotoAndPlay (148);
}
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndStop (90);
}
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay (92);
}
.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .........

I would appreciate very much to have some help on this matter , because I honestly don´t have
any idea on how to put together all that stuff ;

I am not quite sure whether I´ve been clear enough ;
if I have not please take a look at the original DHTML menu @ :
http://multi-media-mkt.sites.uol.com...roj/index.html

Thank you very much ;

Top Navigation Menu In Flash
Hi,
Can anyone please tell me how to create the navigtion menu like this one:
http://www.cartier.com/us/index.html
I want to create exactly like that one,so that a box of menu appears from left and stop below the main selected menu.
Any help in the shape of tutorial or .fla file would be greatly appreaciated.

Dynamic Menu Building And Some ..
howdy folks,

I'm on the lookout for some specific tutes and my googling has been relatively fruitless as indeed have my searches for threads here too.

What I'm after are tutes/source files which I can learn from because I am looking to make a dynamic menu system for a uni project but I don't really know where to start.

I'm looking to make a dynamically generated menu (in MX) which will be just simple buttons, probably just 1,2,3 etc - no real need for button titles (home, contact etc) but if I can get them in then all the better. The menu itself will be for a qtvr project I'm doing in flash and what I'm making is a small engine which will build the navigation/buttons based on the number of panoramas I've got in a root directory.

Ideally I'm looking for it to detect jpgs which will be the stitched panoramas which I'm hoping can be imported into flash as well. Basically a drag and drop sort of thing where a person can put (for example) 7 pre-stitched panoramic photos (360 deg) into a directory where the main swf is and then the swf builds the navigation based on the number of jpgs in there (and rebuild it if one is added/deleted etc) and import the jpgs into a movie clip which will then scroll around based on the mouse cursor being dragged around like with a normal quicktime panorama.

What I'm after then is recommendations for tutes etc that will help me with this project as for me it's a pretty big and advanced project so any help/ideas/tutes/source I can learn from would be much appreciated

Cheers,

jammers.

Menu Detection / Building?
I'm well stuck on this, it's probably quite easy but I don't know where to start.

Basically what I am trying to do is create a simple menu (in flash) which duplicates a button (and perhaps has a text label description) x number of times based on the number of swfs or jpgs in a directory.

I intend to use the attached scroller to display my 360 degree photos and want to make it more dynamic than the present fla because at present it's just a couple of duplicated buttons with no dynamic-ness whatsoever.

What I'm trying to do is create a new "content scroll" (see library in fla) movie clip and a corresponding button which puts it into the correct place etc when it loads up and detects the number of jpgs in a directory (the jpgs will be loaded into a holder movie clip which will handle preloading etc)

I'm trying to create this movie with one button which will be duplicated the correct number of times and also start with just one content scroll movie clip which again will duplicate itself and position and scroll the correct amount rather than the current movie where it's 5 buttons and 5 movie clips which is not so flexible when it comes to updating (for example should I decide to add a further image to the root directory)

Any ideas on how to do this as I don't know and I can't find any tutes or source files that might help me. Hopefully I've explained it reasonably

Building Dynamic Menu
I need to create a dynamic menu according to the data extracted from Mysql thru PHP script.

The data that returns to me are:
1) Name of the button
2) Where it link to
3) Number of Buttons for the menu

I have already create a movieclip which is the image of a single button. With dynamic text on top of the button in the movieclip.

I just need to loop it thru the number of buttons and display the buttons on screen. But i can't seems to get it right.

I can do it if I were to drag the button MC from the library into the stage and the list of buttons will appears. But what i need is to display the list of buttons after another button was pressed. I can't get it going for that.

I attached the .fla file and hope somebody can point me how I can fix it. Thanks!

P.S change the for loop in the .fla into a fix number.

Building A Menu System From Xml
... and I'm really close
I attach a bunch of instances of a class/move clip called "MenuBox" - which holds each menu's buttons. I have a class MenuSystem which has an array containing all the MenuBoxes, and a recursive function that creates and places the MenuBoxes.
the recursive function (and this is where I start having trouble) ends with a return of the MenuBox it's working on, so that each call can add the new MenuBox to its list of subMenus. I'm using subMenus so that I know which button points to which menu, so that when you roll over one button (say button 1, out of 3 on a MenuBox), its corresponding menu opens, and button 2's and button 3's menu system are recursively hidden.
the problem is somehow this setup is not giving me the right subMenu array for each MenuBox.
for example, when you run the fla, you get an output of:
menu0 submenus: null,null,null,_level0.page.menu.portfoliomenu.men u1,null,null,_level0.page.menu.portfoliomenu.menu2 ,null
when menu0's only subMenus should be:
menu0 submenus: _level0.page.menu.portfoliomenu.menu1,_level0.page .menu.portfoliomenu.menu2,null

what am I doing wrong here?

go to http://www.ribaldyouth.com/krishna/ to get an idea of what the menu system is supposed to look like (that way you can see the heirarchy and all that)

the fla (flashsite_r2.fla) and .as files can be downloaded here:
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~krjain20/flashsite07.zip

Help: Building A Dropdown Menu
Dear All,

Can anyone pls direct me to the right direction on how I can start to build a drop down menu using Actionscript 3? Do you know a tutorial? a website? I would appreciate any advice or information.

Thanks,
Lite

Building Menu - Big Help Needed.
Hi Everyone.

I need to build a menu, with a similar behaviour of the one you can see on this website. http://www.manhattan-cosmetics.com

IÂ´d like some hints, flaÂ´s, anything I can start. IÂ´ve looked on the net, but I have found some very advanced AS menus I wonÂ´t be able to adapt to my presentation.

Well, besides that, IÂ´m sick with an amygdalitis and a 38ÂºC fever, so IÂ´m not thinking very well.

Any help is very welcome, because I need to produce an entire cd presentation until fryday, so I canÂ´t wait to recover from this.

Thanks in advance

Help With Building Menu Script
New to Flash so excuse the basic quistion ...Iâ€™m building a menu driven project which contains mainly slides and movies.

Iâ€™ve built a text menu and have figured out how to make the text a button f8 and then f9 however not sure how to code the script so when the text is selected the slide Iâ€™m linking it to within the project appears.

Building Of Dynamic Menu
Hi,

I came across this method and I would like to try it, however I was prompt that the method is having error.

codes:
var myItem:MenuItem = new MenuItem();
myItem.tLabel.text = prop.team;

Please advise if this coding have some error.

Thanks for reading.

Building Dynamic Menu
Hi guys, I have managed to get data out from Mysql database.

All it returns to me are:
1) Name of the button
2) Where it link to
3) Number of Buttons for the menu

So now, how can I build a menu of buttons such that I can display according to the database return on the number of buttons?

Can someone point me to the exactly codes on how I should do it?

I have already create a movieclip which is the image of a single button. With dynamic text on top of the button in the movieclip.

I just need to loop it thru the number of buttons and display the buttons on screen. But i can't seems to get it right.

I have looked through the XML dynamic menu but it's not very similar to mine as I'm using PHP script to connect to the database.

Building A Menu With Sub Elements
hi folks

I have a big problem. Since I have restarted working with flash this year I wasn't that confused than today about this problem. Lets start:

My menue consits of serveral instances of a rolling-out paper. It rolls out, if you roll over it with your mouse. Building this was quite easy for me

But now I want to add sub-items to that Menue which are located onto the "paper-buttons". The user should be able to roll over the paper and roll over the sub-items while the paper is still rolled out. The sub-items should zoom in, if your mouse comes over it.

All the menue items text information is generated dynamically whith actionscript (I fill it with an array).

The problem I have is, that the paper buttons doesn't behave yet as they are intended to
Check out button 2 ("das Pub") and you see what I mean.....

Here is the FLA: http://www.infobild.de/download/menüneu.zip

I would be way happy about any help.............

robbatse

Building A Remote Menu
Hi, I am trying to build a menu that controls different actions. If you take a look at my fla you will hopefully understand what I am talking about.

I would like to be able to choose "square" or "circle" via the "left" and "right" arrow. If I choose "circle" and press the "ok" button I enter the "circle" instance. Then, if I press the "left" or "right" arrow i see different circles (different frames). Then if I press up arrow I go back to choosing "square" or "circle". It sounds complicated but I am sure it is quite simple

Really appreciate it!

[AS] Building A Dynamic Menu
i've been trying to figure this out all day. i don't understand why this would work:

ActionScript Code:
var sections = ["One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six"];
var navXPos = 19;
var navYPos = 440;
var navSpace = 1;
var navLength = sections.length;

for (var i=1; i<=navLength; i++){
if(i==1){
var counter = sections[i-1];
}
nav = this.attachMovie("navButton",sections[i-1],i);
nav._x = navXPos + (navSpace*i);
nav._y = navYPos;
navXPos += nav._width;
}

but this won't work:

ActionScript Code:
loadSections = new LoadVars();
loadSections.onLoad = function(){
var sections = this.section;
}
loadSections.load ("test.txt");

//build nav///////////////////////////
var navXPos = 19;
var navYPos = 440;
var navSpace = 1;
var navLength = sections.length;

for (var i=1; i<=navLength; i++){
if(i==1){
var counter = sections[i-1];
}
nav = this.attachMovie("navButton",sections[i-1],i);
nav._x = navXPos + (navSpace*i);
nav._y = navYPos;
navXPos += nav._width;
}

the second one just loads a variable from an external txt file that is formatted just like an array.
["One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six"];

i'm trying to develop a CD that will read external text files that contain an array that the Flash will load in and build the menu system based on that array. There's gotta be a way to read an array from an external text file into Flash. Or maybe it can't. If it can't does anyone know how I can accomplish the same thing?

Thanks.

Accessible Flash Video
Hi, can anyone help - I want to use Flash to deliver video content. More poeple have the plug-in and it is far easier to provide just one version of video for everyone.

However I want to be sure that the Flash Video is accessible. I have used Flash 8 to encode video and linked via a playback component. This provides a 'skin' with common controls. However, JAWS just goes 'button' with no description when I tab in IE. Is there anyway to add a description in Flash to each button in this skin "SteelExternalAll.swf".

Also is there anyway to get this working in Moz Firefox?

Thanks
Steven

PHP/Flash MX 2004 Pro Navigation Menu
Alright...

I've got the following items:
Product Database
Navigation Menu

The "main buttons" of the navigation menu are static and I have three that on rollover I'd like to have display a submenu. They are:
Hardware | Software | Services

These submenus are coming from a database column subCat.

I have created buttons - and have the Up Over Down Hit state all defined.

I've been monkeying with the XMLConnector, DataSet components in Flash MX 2004 Pro - but I'm not doing something right.

Does anyone know an excellent tutorial that will step me through accomplishing a Dynamically Populated Flash Navigation Menu using XML and PHP???

I've searched tirelessly with no results. I want to strangle this client!! :-)~

Thanks,
Rich

Flash Navigation Menu Tutorials
anyone know where i can get good tutorials for good flash navigation/interactive menus?

im not sure how i want my navigation to work on my site so i need some ideas!

thanks ppl

Help. Flash Navigation Menu In A Frame
I am using Flash MX

Ok here is the scenerio:
I have a framed HTML website. I have a bottom horizontal frame where i made a Flash navigation menu. When the user clicks on a link, i want that link to load "x.html" into the MAIN FRAME(which is labeled "mainFrame" by dreamweaver by default).

Problem:
Cant seem to figure out some kind of target = (frame) command
I tried a bunch of things. I know if this was 100% HTML i would use target = "mainFrame", but dont know about flash

Thanks for the help

Flash Sub Menu Navigation Problems
Greetings,

I'm designing a horizontal navigation bar in flash, where some entries upon being hovered over have a horizontal submenu that pops up.

The link is here: http://www.graveidea.com/profile/lindseyphillips

For example, if you roll over the navigation link "Gallery", you receive a submenu underneath quite nicely. However, if you roll out and roll over the Gallery link again, it shows the pop up for the next menu down the line that has is set to show a submenu upon rollover. I have no idea how to stop that.

Here are some of the details. If I miss something, please let me know. I'll do my best to explain from there, if need be:

1. Each menu link that has a submenu simply is coded to go to a different keyframe with the submenu in it, and a stop action so it stays there.

2. The keyframes that are set up for each submenu are all next to each other in the same layer.

If anyone can help, I'd be most appreciative. I'm novice in action scripting. Mostly rudimentary stuff on an as needed basis.

Thanks!
Nathan

Help Building A Scrolling Image Menu
I am working on a new project and I am unable to get a menu that will allow me to scroll a set of images to move up and down. any help would be great.

Building A Menu : Replace _root
I am currently working on a drop down menu. It works on the main stage but when i place it in a movie clip i loose the functionality. I believe it is because of the _root:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
for (i=2; i<_root.items+1; i++) {
["item" add i]
_y = ["item" add (i-1)]
_y+(_root["item" add (i-1)]._height)+_root.gap;
}
}
I know that _root is not good code, how would i replace that to enable the menu to work inside a movie clip?

Appreciate any help
david

Building Menu + Submenu, With 2 Arrays
Hello,

I'm building a menu with action script, the menu has an interval, so the items follow after each other. This is not a real problem. But the submenu is. I want to build it the same way, with the interval.

But the menu array contains, some years, and with a loop a go trough this array and flash builds it with the items of the array.

The submenu array, contains the quantity of the year, so the quantity of subbuttons..
But i can't fix it to use the number in the array as quantity of subitems..

here is the code:

Code:
menuYearItems = [0, 4, 6, 5, 9];
menuYear = ["2004", "2003", "2002", "2001", "2000", "INFO"];
i = -1;
function func_menua() {
i++;
mcIntsetInterval([menuYear[i]], 1000*i);
if (i>=menuYear.length-1) {
clearInterval(mcInt);
}
var menua = _root.attachMovie("buttonyear", menuYear[i], 10+i);
menua.year.year = menuYear[i];
trace(menua);
menua._x = 50;
menua._y = 55+24*i;
menua.year.hit.onPress = function() {
untVar = menuYearItems[i];
trace ("unt"+untVar);
mcInt2 = setInterval(func_menub, 150);
u = -1;
};
function func_menub() {
u++;
mcIntsetInterval([menuYearItems[u]], 1000*i);
if (u>=menuYearItems.length-1) {
clearInterval(mcInt2);
}
var menub = _root.attachMovie("buttonunt", menuYearItems[u], 20+u);
menub.unt.unt = "unt"+menuYearItems[u]+".";
trace(menub);
menub._x = 115;
menub._y = 55+24.7*u;
}
}
mcInt = setInterval(func_menua, 150);
stop();
hope somebody can help me a little bit..

Maarten