Can This Be Done With Tweening? Or Better Off With AS?
Hi there. Something to put the collective Kirupian Brain to:
I'd like to save some space using a navigation system similar to this:
http://paulbalmer.com/
Is there any way to tween this stuff, or is it better done with AS - if yes, I'd love to stay away from XML if possible - any ideas?
Thanks!
-Beanpie
Maybe I should be more specific - I've looked at lots of tutorials for dynamic menus, but what I'd like to do is have a whole movieclip drop down, instead of just dynamically generated buttons...does that make sense? How shall I tell my menu to expand and collapse based on the size of the movie clips I'm attaching? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted on: 12-01-2004, 02:49 PM
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i have tried searching for anything like this in the movies and on the board.. guess i am just not asking the right question to the search engine....
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djshank@optonline.net
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