HELP Movie Clip Sending A Variable To Control Another Mc
Hopefully someone can help with this menu I have created, I have uploaded the files here:
http://www.crayonmonkeys.com/help
What I want to happen is when the bouncy menu comes to a standstill, the menu selections should appear (epolitix.com etc)
When I click on the next button i.e Print I want the menu to go up then bounce down again then the print menu selections appear.
This is probably very easy but I seem to have flashers block there are 3 buttons and 2 movie clips
Thanks all
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Posted on: 06-18-2002, 10:45 AM
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HERE IS THE SCIPT I THINK I SHOULD BE CHANGING
on (press) {
n = substring(getProperty("", _name), 7, length(getProperty("", _name))-6);
pressTime = getTimer();
trace (pressTime);
if (Number(n)<>Number(/:selectedButton)) {
setProperty ("over", _visible, true);
setProperty ("../button" add /:selectedButton add "/over", _visible, false);
/:selectedButton = n;
/:selectButtonNew = n;
} else if (Number(pressTime-pressTimeOld)<200) {
// extract button number
n = substring(getProperty("", _name), 7, length(getProperty("", _name))-6);
location = eval("/:link" add n);
getURL ("http:/ /" add location, "_blank");
}
pressTimeOld = pressTime;
}
on (release, keyPress "`") {
setProperty ("../button" add n, _visible, true);
}
on (keyPress "`") {
k = 0;
while (Number(k)<Number((1300-CPUlag))) {
k = Number(k)+1;
}
setProperty ("../button" add n, _visible, true);
setProperty ("over", _visible, false);
}
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tellTarget ("nav") {
gotoAndPlay ("http://" add location);
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}
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setProperty ("../button" add n, _visible, true);
}
on (keyPress "`") {
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