Flash :: Help With Menu Animation

Menu Animation
Hi!
I've made a menu for my site.Here's the problem:

Each menu item has 2 animations (rollover & Release). When i press the first it executes the on release animation and stops. When i press the 2nd, it executes its on release animation but the previous pressed to return to its original state. The attached as an exmpla contains two of the 11 items.
I wonder if there's a script that is valid for all items when each one has been pressed before, to return to its original state.

Thanks

Menu Animation
Hi
please help me doing similar menu animation...

http://www.pdk.pl/index_f.html

thanks..ravee

Menu Animation
Hi guys! i'm in process of creating a first complex flash site!
Basicaly, what i'm trying to achieve is a navigation menu that moves up to open space for content. tis should happen once either of the button is release(sound simple) i have created different scenes for each of the button( say scene for main, about, service and contact) but my trouble is once the one scene is open to go to another scene flash repeat the animation of moving up:

each button have this action attached to it

on(release){
if(this._currentframe==1){
_root.gotoandplay("name of label");
} else{
_root.gotoandplay(45)
}
}

Well sure there is something wrong could anyone help me on this please!

Thanx

Menu In/out Animation
Hi all,

Just decided to touch up and improve my website (www.arvindsond.com), and am trouble trying to get my menu working correctly.

I would like the type of button where you put the mouse over and the menu pops out, and then when you move the mouse away the menu slide back.
At the moment with my website and the one i'm trying to re-design is that when you move the mouse away it sanps back to its original state (the menu just disappears until you move the mouse over it again).

Any ideas on how to achieve the animated pop in and out effect, I've been using the mouse over/hit/away states etc.

Thanks in advance.

Arvind Sond

Menu Animation Help
hmm any1 kno what kinda as or tweens where used to make the new menus on www.blink182.com ? I am pretty sure its as.

Menu Animation..... Me Again ;)
hi guys....
i think i become annoying person .
in this time i tried many methods and as usual.. i couldn't .
there are six applications and each one has another five links.
i want if i press in any one of these the others disappear and the one which i pressed move to the left and open it's own links ( five links), of course each link will load different text in the text area, and home button return you to the main movie... haaahaaaa
it's very easy

here is the file i'm working in it.

Menu Animation
I am relatively new to flash, but I'm learning quickly. I need some help on a menu animation. It would look something like below...

beginning = (nothing)

middle (or 1/3 of the way through) = |
| (straight line down)

2/3 of way through = |
|------ (additional line across)

3/3 = |
|------ (button) ------ (button) ------ (button) (and so on and so forth)

If anyone could help me on making this (or if that made any sense) it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

-Jacob Koppang
[frame]line

Animation Menu Help
I'v been looking at the "Creating Drop-Down Menus" tutorial and wanted to make somthing similar to that one. The idè is that I want an door an when you hold your mouse over it and click the door will open alittle and the menu will pop out of the doorway. The problem is that I cant have onrollOver on my movie clip animation. So I was wondering how I could do this. Do I need to make several animations and then but them inside the button. So when I click it starts the open door animation and then more buttons come out? Hope you understand my problem and thanks in advance.

Menu Animation Help
hmm any1 kno what kinda as or tweens where used to make the new menus on www.blink182.com ? I am pretty sure its as.

Menu Animation, How To?
I noticed a site done by Hugo at 24-7 media, and I was curious if anyone knew how to accomplish the effect on the menu at this site ?

Any tips, help or hints would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Animation Within Menu Help Me Plz
i have a menu and an animation within the menu,
just checking, do i just create a motion tween in the menu layer for all the frames the animation takes up.
so i make my animation and then click the menu layer and create motion tween, select last frame and press f6.
and everything should work fine rite?
or maybe wen my animation stops my menu will dissapear ???

Menu Animation Effect
Hi all,
I want to use a menu effect like the one on the following site

http://www.unlockking.com

Could anyone tell me how I would do it.
Thanks in advance
John

Cant Stop Menu Animation
g'day all

im having trouble stopping animation in this movie. i want the opaque screen to slide in and out on mouse over and roll out. but i want the menu to slide out and stay put, not jump and out as it does in my movie.

any help appreciated

ozdude

Menu Animation Problems . . .
I'm relatively new to all this flash stuff, so there's a good chance I'm overlooking some really simple approach to doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.delta-phi.com/dj_nick_williams/

When you reach the menu, click the "Home" button. If you don't move the mouse off the button, you'll see the animation I'm trying to get to work. I'm planning on doing this for each button. Right now, the end result disappears as it loads the roll-out animation fot the button when you move the mouse. Any idea how to remedy this (something with sprites maybe?)?

Using Dynamic Animation On A Menu
I have a question and a problem. First, what I'm ultimately trying to do: I have a horizontal menu for my website with 7 menu items, and a custom mouse cursor. When the cursor stays over a menu item for a certain period of time, a glass-looking selector slides smoothly over it, with a slowing effect like an elevator arriving at its destination floor.

I have the timer done, but I'm having a problem moving the selector.

Each menu item has a button with this code for it:

whateverbutton.onRollOver = function() {
StartTimer(whateverbutton);
};

whateverbutton.onRollOut = function() {
CheckTime = "off";
};

the startTimer function does exactly that... starts a timer. it also sets the variables 'CurButton', which keeps track of which button is being hovered over, 'RollTime' which is time that the mouse passed over the button, and 'CheckTime', which tells another function to start looking at how long the mouse is hovering over the button:

function StartTimer(theButton) {

set(CurButton,theButton);
RollTime = getTimer();
CheckTime = "on";
};

_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (CheckTime == "on"){
if (getTimer() - RollTime >=600){
MoveSelector(CurButton);
};
};
};

Here's where my problem and my question come in: my problem is, the function I have that moves the selector for some reason only moves the selector to the first menu item, "HomeButton". I also can't figure out how to animate it. All it does right now is just snaps it over there, and I'm trying to get it to show movement.

function MoveSelector(TargetButton){
if (Selector._x < TargetButton._x) {
while (Selector._x < TargetButton._x) {
Selector._x++;
};
} else {
while (Selector._x > TargetButton._x) {
Selector._x--;
};
};

};

One more problem: The selector is an imported MovieClip which only plays when it is click. Problem is, when it starts playing, it loops and won't stop. I have the stop(); command at the end of the flash file that I made it in, and when I test it by itself it stops, but not when I imported it. Is there a way to have it only play once?

That's about it. Just a note- I just started learning ActionScript about two days ago, and while it is a lot like JavaScript, there's still a lot I don't understand, so please forgive me if i've made a silly newbie blunder. Any help will be appreciated. Oh, and I'm using Flash MX. Thanks!

Flash Menu Animation
Hello folks, I'm new to this board but am a relatively new Flash user and have a couple questions about an animated drop-down menu I'm reworking ...

I have been spending a while on the drop down menu trying to figure out how to add a new menu item. I want there to be two items in the menu.

I tried copying the pre-existing button and appropriate library elements to go along with but it looks like those still reference the original files and so it doesn't work. I tried creating the buttons from scratch but couldn't quite figure out what elements need to be created.

Also, another thing... when moving from the single (reworked) drop-down menu to another, there is a slight delay. A pause of some sort. This doesn't happen with the original menus that were already there when I received the project. Does anyone know what rollover state/action script controls this? Or this another issue, altogether?

I realize this may be a bit difficult to respond to without the actual project file. It is somewhat sensitive data but I'll see what I can do about uploading it here so anyone with ideas can take a closer look.

Anyone with any ideas, I'd really appreciate it...

[F8] Menu Bar Animation Question
Hi everyone!

My first newbie post here!

Well I've been using Flash for sometime now and i want to learn action script cause some stuff, i think, cant be done without the scripting...

On to my question:

I made a navigation bar which on top of each button (i.e. Home, About, Services, etc..) have an image that slide over them.

For the more visual persons:

The menu is under the ledge of a bar and a beer is sliding over each menu item.

My problem is:

1) How do i make the object move over each item? Movie clip animation? Action script?

2) When the user click let say the Services page, how do i make the beer stay over the Services button and start from there if they mouse over another menu button?

Thank you in advance,

Apotheose aka Math

Some Flash Menu And Animation Help
I'm trying to make a site that is has a lot of animation. I have five main buttons and 5 sub buttons on the main stage. When you click on one of the main buttons say B1 only 3 of the sub buttons are active. I would like to animate the three unused sub buttons and make them disappear. So i can figure out how to do that from the home page for each page (if you click on B1 three sub buttons go away or you click on B4 you get one sub button), but what happens if say B3 has 4 sub buttons. If i try to go from B4 to B3 how do i get those buttons back. I could animate ever possible combination but that seems like its overkill. There has to be a way to do this more efficiently. I hope all that makes sense.

I'm sure this subject has been covered in the forum but for the life of me I cant find it. If some one can even give me a search term to google that would be great. I don't know how to describe what I want to do in any less words that I did above and that seems like a long google search.

Thanks in advance for the help and let me know if you have any questions about what I want to do.

Josh

Menu _ Disable Btn And Animation
I need a menu. See attached file.
What I need:
When I press BTN_1 opens an animated submenu, when the BTN_2 is pressed the animated submenu play the animation from trame 10 to 1 and BTN_1 is disabled.
Same thing for BTN_2.

How can I do this?

I hope you understant me.

DuplicateMovieClip With Animation (menu)
Hello all,

I am attempting to duplicate a button with a movieClip inside, however I would like the duplicated movieClip to animate to it's new position. Currently, I have the following script on my button -

Code:

on (release) {duplicateMovieClip("home", "home" add 1, 1);home1.targetx = 100;speed = 5;if (home1._x<=200) {home1._x += (home1.targetx-_x)/speed;}}

I am trying to create a menu that will animate from a single button using duplicateClip. Is this something that requires a function?

Thanks,
ChaoticGoodNoImage = NoSigImageNoImage = NoImageRes

Question About Menu (animation)
If you enter this page: http://www.vodafonejourney.com/ You will see a little vertical navigation menu.

My Question is: How can i let grow an item and reposition the rest of the menuitems same time?

Do i have to store all values of x,y into arrays- and check wich is selected?
If one is selected > go trough the rest items and let them slide to the rest values of the x,y from the array's?

Just need some tips..

Thnx in advanced.

Question About Menu Animation
Hello all,

New user here. I have some experience with Flash but am by no means a professional user. So Im appealing to you kind folks.

Im recreating a menu bar similar to the one in this tutorial.

http://www.flashperfection.com/tutor...enu-35891.html

And for the most part it works just fine. However I would like the whole bar to slide into position from the left of the screen.

When I place the bar created in a movie clip it goes berserk. The animation continuously loops. Yet outside the clip it works just fine. I know I'm missing something simple.

Would anyone be kind enough to give me a hint here?

Menu Animation Script Help
This is my first new thread post here, i hope anyone could help me with this issue.

I've created a simple menu. (see attached please)

i want the menu to stay there as long as the mouse is either over the "My Menu" or over the menu itself. When i move the mouse away i want it to roll back and hide (of course!)

Note that the menu contains items (movie clip instances) that are animated when hovered on!

I would really appreciate your help guys! :upset:

Rollover Menu Animation
Hi,

I've had a good hunt through the forum for some help with a problem I'm having but I've been unable to find anything that works.

I've been asked to design a menu that rolls out from the side and has buttons which will point to a frame in a frameset. I'm an amateur at actionscript and after three days hunting tutorials, going through them, tearing my hair out after failure upon failure, I'm nearly ready to pack it in.

Can anyone help me out here? I've built the menu based on this following tutorial without success;

http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/flyoutm...youtmenus.html

I'm not much of a coder and despite my efforts nearly all tutorials about animated rollovers/rollover menus has lost me.

Thanks
Jason Just

Tweened Animation Over A Menu
I have used the menu tabs template to create a custom menu that works fine, and i now want an animation to over the top when the menu has loaded. At the moment i have created a new layer over the top and made the tweened animation, but when i test the movie, or load the page the animation doesn't work unless i select play. How do i make it execute automatically?

Template Menu Animation ?
My currently drab looking Template menu on my website www.allinclusivewebdesign.co.uk needs jazzing up a bit.

I wish to have an animation whereby a mouse rollover on each of the button would do some animation.

I wish to have animation that makes the button (Template 1) "flip" inside out (like a tossed coin), as in turning 360 degree but staying at the SAME place & within the same space.

Could anyone point me in the right direction ???

Quick Script Help... For A Menu Animation...
Hey everyone,

I'm sure this is a simple one... I have a menu in a movie clip. When a button is pressed it starts an animation and sets a corresponding buttonId number (variable = buttonHit).

What I'm trying to do is to set up a checker at the end of the animation to see which button was hit and to go to the corresponding frame. Something like if buttonHit == 2 gotoAndStop frame 7. Better yet, to create an if statement that uses an equation. Something that says whatever the buttonHit # is, add 3 and go to and stop at that frame number.

Does that make any sense? I've been tinkering with it for hours now and can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance.

JSn

Quick Script Help... For A Menu Animation... (MX)
Hey everyone,

I'm sure this is a simple one... I have a menu in a movie clip. When a button is pressed it starts an animation and sets a corresponding buttonId number (variable = buttonHit).

What I'm trying to do is to set up a checker at the end of the animation to see which button was hit and to go to the corresponding frame. Something like if buttonHit == 2 gotoAndStop frame 7. Better yet, to create an if statement that uses an equation. Something that says whatever the buttonHit # is, add 3 and go to and stop at that frame number.

Does that make any sense? I've been tinkering with it for hours now and can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance.

JSn

*Menu Buttons Animation HelpREWARD
i am making buttons with menus in them, i want to have these one other buttons load in side the buttons like a menu, and i cant figure out how to get them to do mouseover and stuff and load in the button. it is simple, just give my buttons on my menus an loading animation, in an order i will tell u, and then jutst give them each a mouseover animation with i have the on and off for for each button, i have all the files neccasery to make it, and an example of what it will look like when done.
Thanks,
Vcdman

Slow Menu Animation Problem
I'm working on this project and I can't figure out why the annimations in one page of the movie are slower than all the rest.

Visit here: http://deepthoughtdesign.com/parkplace Hover over About Park Place on the top right and then choose News and Events. Once you're on this page, the popup menus across the top run super slow! Any ideas, gang?

!jon

Forward And Back Menu Animation
Hello,
I have no idea what to search for, so I wasn't able to find the answer to my question although I know the answer is out there.

About a year ago I found a tutorial on how to make a menu in flash with rollover animations. There are many simple rollover tutorials out there, but instead of having the animation jump to a set point onRollOut, this one calculated the number of the frames in the animation minus the current frame, and used that to determine which frame to start playing from--basically, if the animation doesn't get to the end before the user rolls out, you can have it play the animation backwards from where it is at the moment.

I've got a rollover menu working, but if you roll out before the animation finishes it always jumps to the same frame for the rollout animation. I think I could figure if out if I just knew the correct syntax for the math part. Basically, I want this:

Let's say frames 2-10 have the animation going forward, and frames 11-20 have the same animation backwards.

On roll over: Play frame 2. If you get to frame 10, stop.
On roll out: Go to frame (10 - current frame + 11)

Current script:

Code:
this.onRollOver = over;
this.onRollOut = out;

function over() {
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

function out() {
this.gotoAndPlay(46);
}
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!

Button And Menu Animation Question
I've been trying to find a tutorial on how to make "jiggly" and "bouncy" buttons.

Here's an example of the sort of navigation buttons I want to make/replicate.

http://www.envbike.com

Anyone know where I can find a tutorial or can anyone tell me how to make buttons "jiggle" so naturally? And how the submenu items start fast and slow to a stop?

Thanks!

Adding Actionscript Animation To Menu ...
Hi,

I have built a simple menu which makes its buttons from variables (using the 'dynamic menu with submenu's' from the tutorials on this site).
I would like to know if its possible to add some actionscripted animation to this menu - for example when a submenu opens, all the main buttons below are forced down to reveal the submenu options - I'd like the buttons below to move down to reveal the new buttons.
I think that any actionscript which causes this to happen would have to go in here:

Code:
//hide all the submenu items and return the main menu items to their start position
function resetMenu() {
for (i=1; i<=_root.total; ++i) {
if (_root["subText"+i]>=1) {
name = "stext"+i;
for (n=1; n<=_root["subText"+i]; ++n) {
this[name+n]._visible = false;
}
}
this["menuMC"+i]._y = this["menuMC"+(i-1)]._y+this["menuMC"+(i-1)]._height;
}
}
// called by clicking themain menu buttons, this shows the submenu andmoves the main menu buttons to give them space
function submenuShow() {
resetMenu();
if (_root["subText"+choice]>=1) {
name = "stext"+choice;
for (n=1; n<=_root["subText"+choice]; ++n) {
this[name+n]._visible = true;
}
this["menuMC"+(choice+1)]._y = this[name+(n-1)]._y+this[name+(n-1)]._height;
for (i=choice+2; i<=_root.total; ++i) {
this["menuMC"+i]._y = this["menuMC"+(i-1)]._y+this["menuMC"+(i-1)]._height;
}
}
}
I have attached the menu as a zip file in case anyone has time to have a look at this.
Any help would be great,
Thanks for your time,

Tim

Drop Down Menu Over Flash Animation
Help please, I've put together a website using a drop down menu system that needs to drop down over a flash animation - I've managed to get the drop downs to go in front of the animation using the transparent tag - but each option has to be clicked on twice to get the link to work.

Does anyone know how I can change it so the link needs to be only clicked once?
The drop down menu system I've used is : * AnyLink Drop Down Menu- Â© Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)

thanks

Edited: 02/12/2007 at 04:09:40 PM by swizzle_16

How Can I Create This Menu Animation ? [renamed]
check out this site for example ...
http://www.eyeviewdesign.com/main.php?lang=en
when u choose somethin from the menu nothin changes but the bottom side
how can i make somethin like this i mean a the menu and the banner ...... doean,t change
only a certain area ?
this too ...
http://www.slidepoint.pt/main.php?lang=en

Question About Animation In Menu Buttons
Hello all,

I am currently designing my website and I have a question about something I can't figure out. It has to do with animation on menu buttons.

Let's say you're on the main home page of a site. You press one of the menu buttons to take you elsewhere on the site, for example, the "about us" page.

After clicking, the "about us" page loads beginning with some kind of animation or tween. After you view the animation and the page itself, you decide to go elsewhere within the site such as "contact us".

After clicking "contact us", the animation on the "about" page plays again but in reverse before the "contact us" page loads.

I was wondering how I would achieve this?

How To Make A Flash Dynamic Menu With Animation
Hello,

Pls refer to a simple animation on rollover
http://www.ydesignit.com/index2.html

How do I create that and what action script is needed. I hope to learn how to make a full Flashed site. This is just the beginning.

thanks,
Su Lin
http://tsldesigns.com

I Want My Flash Animation Stays Below The Unfoldable Menu
I made an animation on Flash, that`s ok but i also did a desplegable menu on Fireworks and i Published bot of them on one page, So this is the problem:
The unfoldable menu is on top of page and a little more below is the flash animation, but when you pass the mouse over the unfoldable menu (that it`s supposed to unfold OVER the Flash animation)it unfolds below the flash animation .........
how can i make that the flash animation stays below the unfoldable menu so that when its supposed to unfold, unfolds OVER the flash animation not BELOW

NOTE: I used dreamweaver to publish both the animation and the unfoldable menu.
If someone knows the solution I would aprecciate

Sorry my english , Im from Dominican Rep.

Dynamic Menu From Array (animation Problem)
hey, i'm using mc tween to animate my dropdown menu. but for some reason the loop i made to go back up only calls the last object in the array.. help?

heres' the file, http://www.pactrim.com/new/

Code:
//------------------
// CREATE MOVIECLIPS
//------------------
menuData = [{url:"thumb.jpg"}, {url:"thumb.jpg"}, {url:"thumb.jpg"}];
_parent.nDropList._visible = false;
for (i=0; i< menuData.length; i++) {
this.attachMovie("nDropDown", "item"+i, i);
//this.attachMovie("nDropDown", "item"+i, i, {_y:i*34})
this["item"+i].nThumb.loadMovie(menuData[i].url);
trace("item"+i);
}
//-----------
// OPEN MENU
//-----------
function nSlideDown() {
this._visible = true;
for (i=0; i< menuData.length; i++) {
this["item"+i].tween("_y", i*this["item"+i]._height, 0.3, "linear", i*0.1);
}
}
//------------
// CLOSE MENU
//------------
function nSlideUp() {
for (i=0; i< menuData.length; i++) {
if (i == menuData.length-1) {
var callback = function () {
this._parent._visible = false;
};
this["item"+i].tween("_y", 0, 0.3, "linear", i*0.1, callback);
}
}
}

[F8] Problem Organizing A Flash Menu For An Animation
Hello people! I'm putting together a collaboration with some friends of mine, it's an animation and i'm having a lot of problems with actionscript since my knowledge on that area is very limited.

What I want to know is:

1. Is there a way to stop a specific sound? Not stopallsounds() but a command to stop a certain .mp3 file.

2. The collab has 3 parts, in the menu there is a button for each part of the collab (3 buttons) and a play all button (the 4th button), is there a way I can apply a command where the 3 parts play completely: one after another when I use the play all button but when I use the button for a certain part of the collab it goes back to the menu when that specific part ends?

I hope i'm making myself clear, my head hurts and I know my english is very bad, still i'd appreciate some help, thanks a lot!

Flash Animation Covering Up CSS Drop-down Menu
Hi,

I am building a webpage and I have a problem with my Flash animation covering up my CSS drop down menu. I have set the drop down menu to have a z-index of 100, but it still gets covered up by some Flash animation elements. How do I solve this problem? Help appreciated.

Flash Animation Hidden Behind Drop Down Menu
Hi everyone,

I am hoping one of you Flash gurus could help me resolve this Flash issue I'm having with Firefox 2.

For some reason, the drop down menu gets hidden behind the flash animation, when it should be laid on top of the flash movie instead.

I have "transparency" and "opaque" set for the wmode property which seems to work fine for every browser but Firefox 2.

Has anyone of you come across this problem and is there a way to fix it?

Here is the website:
http://digital-abode.com/i2c/welcome.htm

If you hover over the main navigation, you will see that the drop down menu gets hidden behind the flash.

Here's the bit of code I'm using to embed the flash object:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">Please download Flash Plugin.</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("flash/i2cHomeBanner.swf", "mymovie", "709", "166", "7", "#ffffff");
so.addParam("wmode","transparent");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

Any help is much appreciated!

-Catherine

Javascript Sub-menu Opens Behind The Flash Animation
Hi,

I have a program called Pop-up Menu Creator to create web menus. I created web menus using it, everything is fine. The menu is placed on the left (content), when clicked the sub-menu opens to the right over the main page. I don't have frames.

Everything was fine until I created a flash animation and placed it in the main area. What happens now is that the sub-menus open behind the animation, as if I have two layers. How to make the flash animation run behind the menus when the menus open.

I am using frontpage to insert the flash plug-in.

Thanks a lot
Paulin

Button In Draggable Menu To Cause Animation Elsewehre On Rollover
Hi,

I have a webpage set in a room, the menu is in it's own movie clip and draggable. In the menu movie clip is the Buttons. I want when I mouseover a button in the menu, that something in the room starts to animate. Since I can't simply add the animation to the rollover part of the button in the menu, (when it's dragged the animation is dragged too) I put each animation in a seperate movie clip.

I tried tagging the Frames in each animation, and calling them from the button. But I'm doing something wrong, because it just goes forward a frame in the menu movie clip, and stops.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

- Mira

How Do You Stop Flash Animation & Allow Menu Buttons To Work
A site I'm designing in Flash 8 opens with a Flash animation which is followed by a three-button menu. I tried actionscripting "stop ();" on the last frame of the animation and put an instance of a button on the same frame (different layer) with this code:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(280);
}

as I want the button to trigger a small animation of its own beginning in the next frame. However, I get this error message:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Work button, frame=279:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

I don't understand this because the button is an instance I pulled in from the library which I want triggered by a click of the mouse.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks!