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Animated Menu - HELP
Hi people!

I´m new here and I´m brazilian...so, sorry about the english.
I need helpppp!
I´m trying to create an animated menu, where the item clicked moves to the center of the stage and than the contents appear. When another item of menu is clicked, the content on the stage must desappear, and the active item must move back to the original position, before the "new one" goes active.
I´m having some problems...like...it doesn´t work. lol

What I have is:
Menu items in movie clips, where the animation is - stop - going to the stage- stop - going back to original position - stop.
A variable ActiveMovie, initialized as "none", that holds which movie is on stage.
A variable movieOnHold, also initialized as "none", that holds which movie is on hold.

The script on _root:
ActiveMovie = "none";
movieOnHold = "none";
function PutMovie(whichMovie) {
if (_root.ActiveMovie== "none") {
_root[whichMovie].play();
} else {
_root.movieOnHold= whichMovie;
_root[ActiveMovie].play();
}
}

The script on item movies:
on (release) {
_root.PutMovie("movieNameX");
}

In "middle frame" of animation movie I set the ActiveMovie to the new value.

The script on last frame of animation movie:
_root.ActiveMovie= "none";
_root[movieOnHold].play();

The ActiveMovie goes back to the original position ok, and the variable movieOnHold receives the right value, but the play doesn´t work.

Did anyone understand?
If so...pleaseeee help me.

Thank you very very much

Julia

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