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Combine XML Menu Tutorial With Verticle Sliding Menu
Hey Guys,
IM trying to combine the dynamic XML menu tutorial found here on Kirupa with a tut ive found else where.

Now I under stand how the sliding tutorial works, but its based on some fixed dimensions.

Obviously the dimensions of the XML menu can change as items are added ...if any one could take a look a source (below) and tell me where to start referencing the variouse dimensions involved?

The news.xml and news.fla files contain a rough working model of the XML menu in case they are fo any use?

LINK: www.nineironmusic.co.uk/scrollmenu.zip

Scroll menu AS:

ActionScript Code:
mouseX = _ymouse;menuX = menu._y;if (mouseX > 280) { diff = (mouseX-280)/15;}if (mouseX < 220) { diff = (220-mouseX)/15;}if (mouseX <= 250 && menuX <= 56) { setProperty("menu", _y, menuX+diff);}if (mouseX >= 250 && menuX >= -204) { setProperty("menu", _y, menuX-diff);}if (menu._y >= 56) { menu._y = 56;} else if (menu._y <= -204) { menu._y = -204; }gotoAndPlay(2);

Thanks... once again!
Zaid

Menu Tutorial
Hi,

I have found a tutorial that describes how to make a dropdownmenu in Flash 4.(I think it is version 4)

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-121/index.php

Does anyone know how to modify it for Flash 5?

regards
//ikaros

Menu Tutorial Help
Dear Friends
"MERRY XMAS!!!! & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!"

I was reading your tutorial on http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-541/more2.php
about Very Highly Dynamic Menu, .Author: ::::: Daafy ::::: .

I dont understand the bit (on page 2 of the tutorial, 1st paragraph) "Name it "Rub MC" for ex, choose Movie Clip and press ok. Double-click on your MC "Rub MC" and fill the occur name like "Rub".

How do I fill the occur name??? This is confusing I dont know how to fill in the occur name! Please could you explain this to me.

Kind Regards,

Tony.

Pop-up Menu Tutorial
Good Morning Flash Community,

I been trying to follow the pop-up menu tutorial on FlashKit.com (http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-121/index.php). When I try testing it I keep getting these error meassges;

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Symbol=PopMenu, Layer=MenuButton, Frame=1: Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (rollOver) {

Symbol=PopMenu, Layer=Hider, Frame=10: Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (rollOver) {
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. I'll attached the file I am working on.

I am using FlashMX

Menu Tutorial
I'm looking for at tutorial tha explains how to make this kind of menu: Menu

Bit-101 Menu Tutorial?
Hi all,
I've searched all over but can't seem to find any tutorials for creating a rotating menu like bit-101? can anyone please point me in the right direction? thanks

Menu Tutorial
Does anyone know of a tutorial on making a menu like the one on this site?

http://www.lightcore.net/

Fly In Menu's Tutorial
I hope i am putting this in the right place. I am new here so im sorry lol.

The tutorial i am referring to is provided in this link:
http://actionscript.org/tutorials/in...us/index.shtml

I like the way the pages change inside this tutorial. As you can click the button and it will change the text in that area.

Would it be possible to use a couple buttons i have in my flash file.. There are 5 of them, and have them change the text in a certain area like done in here.

I tried modifying the script to work but it says they need to be movie clips so i change it and it just gets highly confusing.

Basicly. I have 5 buttons, and i want the text in a certain specefied place to change when i click the buttons using frame labels and such.

Menu Tutorial
http://www.idofficialsite.com/homepage.asp
The menu tutorial.. does anyone know where I can find one silimar to that?

Need Tutorial For This Menu
hi, I was wondering if there are any tutorials to make a menu like the one on this page where it says recent work..

I want it to pop up like that with each name..

http://www.coma2.de/main.html

thanks

Menu Tutorial
hey i was wonderin about that 1 tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm)
on the part where your supposed to ut in
"on(rollOver){
gotoAndStop("open")
}"
this is the error i come up with:
"Symbol=Menu, Layer=Buttons, Frame=1: Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on(rollOver) {"
what am i doing wrong?(as you can tell im new with flash) any suggestions would be greatly appriciated

thanks

Tutorial On This Menu?
Does anybody know of any tutorials of some sort that shows how to make a navigation menu similar to
THIS ON THE LEFT

Can you please show me how to do this?

thanks much!

The Menu Tutorial
Hey I'm quite a n00b and I've been finding this site very helpful!

I used the Menu Tutorial and made it, but I don't know how to change the name from "button" to something else. I'm also unsure on how to set up links onto the buttons.

Can anyone out there assist me? Thanks very much.

Tutorial For Pop Out Menu?
Hi, my new layout for my blog has limited space but I would like to still have a menu. I want a menu that visitors can click on, see the content, then close it to continue reading. Does anyone know of a tutorial for a pop out menu in flashmx (2004)? I saw a site with this feature but forget the URI.

Thanks.

Is There A Tutorial For This Menu?
marcjacobs.com

Any clues on how this menu was created? Trying to figure out how the rollover form left to right to left increases and decreases the size of the text.

Thanks in advance

AS Menu Tutorial
So I just got done reading the tutorial on this feature and I'm trying to mess with the menu.

Here's my problem. I created a menu item. It will not have any sub menu items. What I want to do is make that top level menu item go to an html page when clicked. Here's what I currently have. It's not yet pointing to the html page because I can't even get an output window to come up!

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// AI Home Button
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var aiBar = aiMenuBar.addMenu("AI Home");
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// AI Home Button listener
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
aiBarListener = new Object();
aiBarListener.click = function() {
trace("It worked!!");
};
aiMenuBar.addEventListener("click", aiBarListener);

I'm just now starting to dig into AS so forgive any newbie errors.

I'm assuming that the top level menu can't have an action but I know that's probably not true.

Thanks,
Chris

Looking For Menu Tutorial
Hello All,

I'm looking for a tutorial that gives the effect similar to the one found on http://mediatemple.com/home.html on the bottom left hand corner where the background is moving slower than the foreground items. I found a couple of background scrolling tuts, but didn't have the same "easing" effect. Hopefully you guys can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Slide Menu Tutorial Help
Help I would like to make a nav like this

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...5104/index.php

yet I have no clue how to add to each button the loadmovie function? here is the code

fscommand("allowscale", false);
fscommand("trapallkeys", true);
MovieClip.prototype.acc = 3.9;
MovieClip.prototype.smorz = 1.22;
// ACTION FOR THE BUTTON
MovieClip.prototype.DoSomething = function(theClip) {
trace("nome: "+theClip._name);
trace("valore: "+theClip.mov.txt);
// here you can add your script for the button action...
};
// label sui bottoni
nomi = new Array("work", "resume", "play", "contact");
loghi = new Array("cubo", "triangolo", "ottagono", "sfera");
max = 3;
// creo il menu
for (i=1; i<=max; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip("_root.menu0", "menu"+i, i);
myMenu = _root["menu"+i];
myMenu.mov.txt = nomi[i];
myMenu.attachMovie(loghi[i], "logo"+i, (5000+i));
myLogo = eval("_root.menu"+i+".logo"+i);
myLogo._x = -76;
newColor = new getColor(myMenu);
}
_root.menu0.attachMovie("cubo", "cubo", (7000+1));
_root.menu0.cubo._x = -76;
// coloro i menu in modo differente
function getColor(what) {
inizio += (255/nomi.length)/3;
colore = new Color(eval(what));
alex = new Object();
alex = colore.getTransform();
alex.rb += inizio;
alex.gb += inizio;
alex.bb += inizio;
colore.setTransform(alex);
}
// comporranno il nostro menu
//

I'm new to this stuff so please help if you can and laugh if you want... thanks
george

Popup Menu Tutorial
I've been following this tutorial:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...21/index.shtml

I got stuck on the botom of the second page where it says to create keyframes in every frame from frames 1 thru 20 (correct me if I'm wrong). Now, every frame in those three layers (Frames & Actions, Menu Button, Menu Items) has a filled-in or blank circle.

Going on to the next page (page 3) the screen shot of the timeline only shows a keyframe in frame 1 and 20. Recalling the previous step was to insert a keyframe in EVERY frame. What happened here?

This tutorial is very confusing for the beginner. Is there another tutorial out there on this same subject but step-by-step walk through?

Any help is truly appreciated. BTW, I'm using Flash MX.

Horizontal Menu Tutorial
I was trying to make the horizontal menu tutorial but i lack on the looping part. In the flash file of the tutorial there are some actions in the buttons but in the explanation part it doesnt says anything about this actions. Can anybody help me? This is the code from the buttons.

on (release) {
_root.swapclip.gotoAndPlay(18);
_root.container.gotoAndStop(2);
}

thanks. Andrea.

Drop-down Menu Tutorial
I want to make a "simple" drop-down menu. Just a button that in the over state reveals a menu of additional buttons that you actually use to navigate. I cannot seem to find good tutorials for this anywhere. Anybody have one, or know where I can get one. Thanks.

Tutorial On Wave Menu
i am currently trying to do a wave menu, like the one that Widegroup did for their navigation button on the previous version site. So i would be happy if someone out there can help me on this. Is there any tutorial or example in fla for this kinda menu?
thanks

Colaspible Menu Tutorial?
Does anyone know of a good tutorial on how to make a colapsible menu?
Thanks.

Enhanced CD Menu Tutorial?
Is there a tutorial on 'how to create a menu for an Enhanced CD' My problem is that I want when I click the play button in my flash movie to start playing the video file inside the movie without having to embed it.
I've attached an example screenshot of such menu.

Help W/ The Dynamic Menu Tutorial
does anyone know of a very similar or current version of this tutorial
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-541/index.php
i really like the tut and want to use it, but its hard to understand and some of the AS isnt clear
any help is appreciaed thanks

Flowy Menu Tutorial Available?
Hello,

Please take a look at this site:

http://www.hello-sexy.com/

Could anyone kindly tell me whether there is a tutorial on flashkit.com that can make that very elastic feeling menu object (the two green square which is the main navigation) there's a lot of tutorials to shift through as the site has grown so much now. Thank you.

Looking For Tutorial On Collapsable Menu
Hello,

Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on making a collapsable menu. I have a vertical menu and, for example, if I click button 2, I need all the bottons below button 2 to slide down to make spaces for all the sub-categories within button 2. And when any other button is clicked they need to go back to their original spot. I've seen this around, but don't have a tutorial for it. Help anyone?

Thanks

Mac OS X Menu Tutorial Problems
I have just finished creating the Mac OS X style menu following this tutorial:-
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-722/index.php
I finished scripting it, ran the movie all the images were there, but the nice scrolling and scaling action was not working. However, there was not a single scripting error. I am a complete newbie at actionscript, but the fact there was no errors does baffle me. I am using Flash 8 so if anyone has any ideas why this isn't working I would be most grateful.

BTW I have made sure that all instance names and references to them are case matched (I have made that mistake before)

Thanks!!!

[F8] Sliding Menu Tutorial?
I'm not sure if this goes in the ActionScript forum, but I'm just hunting around and around on Google looking for a tutorial or something that'll help me make a menu like this:

http://www.happymenus.com/products.php?th=1&me=7

I'm just still quite bad at Flash, so I don't know how to do something like that myself, if it requires a lot of scripting or just a lot of animation.

Any help is appreciated.

DropDown Menu Tutorial
Is there a tutorial for DropDown Menu over another drop down? for Ex:

About Us ------------->Contact Us
--------------->Phone
--------------->Address
--------->Alternative Address

Tree Menu Tutorial?
Does anyone know of a good tree style menu tutorial? thanks

Drop-down Menu Tutorial?
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Drop Down Menu Tutorial
Does anybody knows a good drop down menu tutorial for AS3? The ones I saw are kinda of sloopy.

Thanks

Slider Menu Tutorial
Can someone help me tweak my slider menu? I created it based on the tutorial here on Kirupa.com, however I need to tweak it so that when I click on "1" it goes to the first pic, when I click on "3" it goes to the third pic and so on. I am new to flash and am not familiar enough with the code to figure it out.

If you could tell me where the actionscript is that controls where the slider starts at and how to make it land on the proper pic when the proper number button is clicked. It is based on this tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/slidingmenu.htm

Thank you.

Drop Down Menu Tutorial?
Ello!

Anyone know where I can find a tutorial that shows how to make drop down menus?

e.g.

Main nav has Home - About Us - Services - Contact as buttons stacked ontop of eachother....

...someone clicks 'Services'....'Contact button animates down to reveal sub sections of 'Services'......then when 'About Us' is clicked....'Contacts moves up to hide the 'Services' sub menus and then 'Services and 'Contacts' animate down to reveal sub sections of 'About Us'!......the again it sub menus hide when other buttons are clicked.....does that make sense?

Ive found this one HERE which is just the idea Im after....however does it have to be XML driven?

The one on this site is a bit too basic.

Thanks

Infinite Menu Tutorial
Hi,

I'm a Flash noob, I was looking at the tutorial on making infinite menu. I wanted to add sound to each button, but when I tried to add sound to one, it changes it for the whole group of buttons. Is there a way to "fix" this? I really don't want to start over again. Thanks in advance!

Need A SCROLLING MENU Tutorial
Ok,

So I need a scrolling menu that will hold thumbnails - kind of like the infintie menu tutorial here, but I need it to be more controlled ie, I need it to stop scrolling when you mouse off it.

Maybe someone can help me modify the actionscript on that tut to better suit my needs?

I just need the mouse to be less sensitive in the scrolling action

and

Have the menu stop scrolling when you aren't over it.

If you can think of any other tut's I can check out let me know

Thanks!

Menu With Slider Tutorial
is there any way to make the buttons into movie clips in this tutorial? i much prefer those over buttons. too much mess otherwise.

Followed Tutorial,and Still No Drop Down Menu
Hello all! I'm pretty new to XML, and I have been trying to duplicate this menu

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...pdown_menu.htm

for some time now.....I even copied and paste the code from the example given, and still no luck. What am I doing worng? I've tried just about everything, and still the menu will not show. Can someone PLEASE point me in the right direction.

Thank you,
SpyGuy

Menu Slider Tutorial Help
I have problem that I need a little help with. I'm trying to modify the following tutorial for a project. http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...ith_slider.htm
I have changed it so that each button will movie a movie clip vertically from behind a masked area and it works but I have two small problems.
I want the movie clips (which I'm using as submenus) to move back on rollout, but when I add the script on (rollout) name.yMove = 300, my buttons on the movie clip don't work. When I take the on (rollout) script out, my buttons work on the movieclip but the submenus stay put.
There is probably an easier way to do this but this is only tutorial close to what I was trying to do.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
thnx

Sliding Menu Tutorial
I try to follow your sliding menu tutorial but when I try to resize it, keep having the old size, where i have to change it? other question, can I write a text for each button out side the mask?
really hope you can help me,
thanks a lot!

Menu With Slider Tutorial
In the Menu with Slider tutorial as you see there is a sliding object when rolling over the buttons. My question is, if we have buttons at differentsizes, (if you check the tutorial, they are all at the same size) can we make the sliding object change its size according to the size of the button?

TAKE CARE ALL FRIENDS

The Infinite Menu Tutorial
I've completed the infinite menu tutorial and am going to implement a menu of this type on my site. I would like to know how to slow the menu down a bit so that it does not scroll so fast when the mouse is all the way to the left or right edge. Here is the code:

onClipEvent (load) {
xcenter = 150;
speed = 1/10;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
var distance = _root._xmouse-xcenter;
_x += (distance*speed);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
var distance = _root._xmouse-xcenter;
_x += (distance*speed);
if (_x>0) {
_x = -300;
}
if (_x<-300) {
_x = 0;
}
}

I tried changing the speed variable to 1/5 and such but it seems to still go really fast. Can anyone help.

Need FLA For Sliding Menu Tutorial
Hello,

Could someone please email me or post the FLA for the Sliding Menu tutorial by ilyaslamasse. When I click to get it, I just get html text, no downloadable FLA.

Please email to jjk362@stu.aii.edu

Thanks...

Drop Down Menu Tutorial
I have tried to do Creating Drop-Down Menus
and do not know where I should paste the last codes:
Now click on the new symbol and add this piece of code on it:

on(rollOver) {
gotoAndStop("closed");
}

Help please

Using Of Scrollbar In XML Menu Tutorial
I use this XML menu of Kirupa tutorials.

I use the message area (message_txt.text is name of the text field in the source of the tutorial - link above) to display the text on my site.
Now I solve the problem how make the srollbar component (srollbar component of Flash MX) invisible if ist not needed.

Can you help me?

I tried to use this tutorial, but in the http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...pdown_menu.htm can I not use it.

Thanks

Problem With Menu Tutorial
I seem to be having a problem with this tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm

I've created my own version of it (still in the very early stages) and thats where the problem is.

When I mouse over the Button, my animation plays and stops in the correct spot. Yet when I leave the button area, and move the mouse to the animated area (which is still above the invisible button) the invisible botton on(onRollOver) event is fired. I cannot figure out why.

I've attached my .fla. Hopefully someone can take a brief second to take a look.

Thanks!

Help With Infinite Menu Tutorial
i'm trying to implement this menu in a site im building, the turorial worked great and the menu is moving correctly but im having trouble applying commands to the button in the movie clips. I cant seem to make it work? Is there a special code I have to add to the GoTo command to make is work from inside the MC??? Im aiming it at the main scene.. any help would be great...

thanks
Doug