Flash :: Draggable Menues And Sliding Menues...

DVD Menues - How?
I have a client who needs to have a DVD done as a presentation of his brand...

Basically it's going to have a video i have already imported into my pc and maybe some pictures and text in other sections of the DVD.

Now, what i need to know is how to create the menues (if possible animated ones). I can draw, animate or whatever in flash, but what program should i use to make DVD menues that work in a home theatre?

Should i burn the DVD with this same software or should i use another one?
Which burning program makes the more universally playable DVDs?

I searched the forum but i didn't find anything about DVD MENU AUTHORING... if there is i missed it
I did read something abot Adobe Encore... would you recomend it for this case?

Thanks a lot in advance, help will really be appreciated

Drop Down Menues
Hi, this is my 1st post, previously i had chance to work on presentation, and i had to create drop down menue in presentation for a company. but i was having problems. would somebody help me.

XML Menues And Text
I would like to create xml menue and add also to xml text so when you click on some menu load and text.
Is there any good tutorial for flash and xml or something like that

tnx

Menues And Buttons
I know this probably seems really simple, how to you script a button to move to the next scene in your movie? I know how to make the button, i dont know how to script it.

thx

Old Fashion Menues
Hi

Please bear with me, I'm a newbie... Is there a web-site or an example that explains how to make these types of menues:
I have 3 choices that I want the user to choose from: 1) More Information 2) Register 3) Quit. Menu 1 should automatically be highlighted and marked with a see-through rectangle. If the users presses down-arrow, the next menu should be highlighted and marked with the same rectangle, and so on... I think this is the old way of navigating through a menu. No use of mouse, only selecting with arrows for up, down,left, right and Enter as OK instead of click with mouse.

Best Regards,
Bjarte

Links To Specific Sub Menues
hi!

the website i did consists of one flash file. it has probably 7 points in the navigation plus some sub menues. as the one flash file can be found in google with meta tags i wanted to find out if it is possible to add meta tags to google regarding the sub content of the site. lets say now if i find the page in google i come to the home menue. but if i look for another name i would like to specifically be able to link to that part of the flash site. so i would need to tell flash that if i come to a specific value in google it has to link to submenue two for example. as the page always comes to one website address, it is not split in different html files i hope that there is a way to do it.

i got told that what i have to do is add the param name in javascript with the gotolink function to a specific value and then let flash understand if that specific value is called then it has to jump to this specific part of the application - not using any buttons. like that:

<param name="gotolink" value="home"/>
<param name="gotolink" value="submenue1"/>
etc.

thank you very, very much for your help - if you've got any suggestions it would be great!

Flash Menues And XML Files...Help Needed.
Hi everybody,

I am trying to give a new feeling to my menus, so I want to learn how to populate the menu component with an XML file+. I already know some basics about XML, I can write the document I would need, that's easy but I dont know how I can populate the menu component. To illustrate what i am saying of my teacher's website is written in flash and he used this method, but he doesnt teaches in my school anymore and moved out of state. The web site is www.iragreenberg.com, the menus he is using are an example of the menu component populated with an XML file.

If anybody know an easy or whatever way to do what i want, please i would appreciate any help. My email is ysaisalberto@hotmail.com or u can post a response here.

Thanks a lot.

Html Menues Embeded In Flash
Ok.. so i am good at html and good at flash, and new at putting the two together.

So i wanna put together gallery menus that will be updated an awful lot. I figure embedding a simple html page into a flash shell would work nicely.. but with preload, added animation on start up, vertical scrolling and locking pretty much all else out.. there any tricks to making this uber easy, simplified, and all that goodness?

Any tips would be appreciated. ^^

Draggable Item On A Draggable Mask
hello, i was trying to make a sniping game, and i can get the mask to drag. but i want crosshairs and it won't appear in the mask, so i put it on a diff. layer and it still won't work. has anyone had this same problem, and if so, please help me.

Please Help With Sliding Menu Static Copy Works, Sliding Doesn't
I have a copy of the same sliding tab menu. On has actionscipt on the MC telling it to slide in/out. The other does not.

The moving one loses all it's sub-timeline actions.

The static one works fine. How do I get the moving to work?

Please help.

Will be very simple for the flash gurus out there.

RR

Slideshow: Sliding Images. Repeat Sliding After Last Image
Hello.

Scenario:
I have 5 images. With a setInterval I slide the images - back-to-back - from left to right under a window (mask). When the last image is under the mask, I'm trying to figure out a way to start over again. So that when the last image is sliding out, the first image is sliding in, thus retarting the slideshow.

I figured the best way to do this is to 'move' the image that last moved out of the mask before the other images. So if im1 move out of the mask, im2 move into the mask, im1 would move to position itself after im5 (since I have 5 images.)

The problem. How to tell flash to move the image that slides out to move to a position after all my images.

im5-im4-im3-im2-im1 becomes im1-im5-im4-im3-img2

Each image is 80 pixels wide.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

/Flip

Sliding Menu - Need MC To Play After Sliding Has Finished
Hi,

I have created a Sliding Menu with about 12 sections. In one of the section/s I have a MC inside that I want to play. Is there a way to tell a MC to play once sliding has completed? Say based on pixel position (of the sliding MC) or something similar?

At the moment I'm using "on release" but with this method, the animation starts too early. (By the time you slide from section 1 to 12 the MC has already started playing)...

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!

Sliding In/sliding Out Images Using Actionscript
I know I should probably know how to do this by know but I'm stuck.
How do I create this effect using Actionscript?

http://synap-sys.com/in_out_slide.html

When a user clicks on button "1" the image slides in from the left. When the user chooses to view image "2" image one slides out of the way and image two then slides in. I would like to do this using Actionscript because there's going to be a bunch of pictures that are part of this slideshow. It's how to tell the Flash player how to slide out the current image and slide in the new image that I'm struggling with. Forgive my lameness.
I'm also trying to do this without dynamically loading each image everytime they click on a button. The reason for this is so all the images load at once, thereby eliminating the delay that would occur as each image loads after a user clicks a button. A fellow Flashkit member(Garbage) suggested I do this using a Library clip (all the images placed on a keyframe of a movieClip that are referenced per button click) but I'm not sure how to do this (goToAndPlay?).
Any help or guidance would be most appreciated.
I've attached the .fla if anybody wants to look at it.
Thanks
Adam

Sliding Nav ( Can You Make It Stop Sliding)
*USING FLAH MX
Hello Im having some issues trying to get this sliding nav to stop sliding.

I was referenced this file

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...y-87/index.php

It seems to be controled with a button called tracker but I cant get the nave to stop sling on roll out (also the text fields in this fla are not needed)

The effect I want to achieve can be found on this site

http://www.theopiumgroup.com/index2.html

If you click mansion and then click info you will see how they set up there sub navigation

Any help would be great,thank you in advance

[F8] Sliding Interface With Sliding Buttons
I'm trying to get a sliding interface going with the buttons (that move the interface) moving along with it.

At the moment it looks like this: http://www.flashvista.com/details/item/746/

I got there by following by following the first page of this:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=26319

Basically I want to encorporate the buttons with the interface images.

I tried putting the buttons in with the images_MC, but nothing happens with you click the button.

Whats the easiest way to make this work?
thanks

Draggable
hmm can someone tell me or point me in the direction of how to make a mc draggable using flash 5...
thanks

More Than Just A Draggable Map
All I need here is just a small push in the right direction and I am sure it will all click.

I have been looking for some time to get a map that I am going to use for navigating through a site, to drag on both the _x and _y axes. however rather than just creating a dragabble MC I was hoping to have a controller to make the animation look that much smoother. Has anyone seen a good tutorial or example to assist me or can recommend a solution.

Any response are greatly appreciated.

Draggable Help
problem:
i want to have a toolbar where you click the button, a movie clip will appear, and the user can drag it to any location they want.

Extra Credit:
in a perfect world, i would love to have a save button, that would save where the user placed these movie clips as a seperate swf file.

anyone that can help please do so...
thanks!

Draggable Nav Bar
ive made nav bar which i want to be draggable on my site, i made the background, then the buttons, grouped them as a movie clip and gme them the actions

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
this.startDrag(true);
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
this.stopDrag();
}

the problem is when people click one of the buttons it picks up the nav bar to be dragged and also when some clicks anywhere on the screen, the bar jumps there. how can i limit the bar from moving to only when its clicked on it a certain place and not the buttons or any random place on the page?

--> Following A Draggable MC?
I've been experimenting for several weeks now and haven't been able to figure this out.

I would like to set up my flash movie so that when the user drags a movie clip, other movie clips will move along with it depending on which variables are set. I can get one movie clip to follow another when dragged (using onClipEvent(enterFrame), but I would like to set this up on the individual buttons and only have it run when the user is in the process of moving an MC.

----------------------------------CODE----------------------------
on (press) {
_global.depth = _global.depth + 1;
this.swapDepths(_global.depth);
startDrag(this);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
//If piece is placed in following location lock it so that it can't be moved
if(this._x>467.5 && this._x<487.5 && this._y>53.75 && this._y<73.75){
this._x=477.5;
this._y=63.75;
_root.piece1MC.piece1._visible=false;

// If MC is placed in this position, it should be locked to the piece it was next to
}else if (_root.piece1MC._x < (_root.piece2MC._x - 62) && _root.piece1MC._x > (_root.piece2MC._x - 82) && _root.piece1MC._y > (_root.piece2MC._y - 8) && _root.piece1MC._y < (_root.piece2MC._y +12)){
_root.onetwo = "true";
}
----------------------END CODE------------------------

This is the code I have one MC (they're all similar to this). When variable "_root.onetwo" is set, I would like piece1MC to follow piece2MC and vice versa. The code to do this must be placed on each individual piece, otherwise only one will work.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Draggable Mc
Hi, i have a function which allows me to drag my mc's on the x axis, but i now want them to be draggable on the y axis too.... so they can be put anywhere. My code for the x axis is below, any thoughts as to how i can make it completely draggable, not just on the x axis?

I'm fairly new to flash, thanks for your help.

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, false) && _root.blocksDrag == false) {
this.startDrag(false, -800-this._width, this._y, 800, this._y);
}
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
this.stopDrag();
}

Draggable MO + Following MC
Is there any simple actionscript to get a MC to follow a draggable MC.

Draggable MC
I basically need to drag a movie clip (just an image, nothing else) around the stage.. just did a search for it, but couldn't find anything in AS3.. anyone know where I would start?

Thanks!
Zg

Draggable MC Help
Hey folks,

I've been developing a little game thing...one part in particular is giving me problems.

There is a pic of a turtle, and a tortoise, and land and water. You're supposed to drag one of the two to its corresponding environment...if you're wrong, it goes back to the original spot, if it's right, it's supposed to stay.

It works on it's own (as seen here), but when loaded into the main container movie, they don't stay put.

Here's what i'm using on the MC's of the buttons of the turtles;

Code:

on (release) {
stopDrag ();
if (_parent.tortoise_drag._droptarget == "/tortoise_target") {
//_root.tortoise_target.gotoandStop("tortoise_hold");
_parent.tortoise_drag == stopDrag();
}
else {
this._x = 490//the old xposition of the MC
this._y = 145//the old yposition of the MC
}
}

I"m guessing i'm incorrectly using the _parent and _root somewhere, but not sure.

Thanks!

Draggable Mask?
I have tried but failed miserably to accomplish this task...

Using Startdrag, make a draggable mask layer to create a magnifier effect.

Can it be done?
Any hints?

Regards,

Draggable Pop Up Window
what I want to do is have a draggable window pop up at a certain location within the main movie when I press a button. what code do I attach to the button? I know the drag stuff, but how do i set the position?

Draggable Buttons - Help?
ive got a 'nav bar' (movie clip) on it are 7 buttons.
the 7 buttons are in the movie clip.
the nav bar is called 'menu'
i want to make the nav bar draggable and have the buttons clickable to go to 7 different scenes in the main movie.

help would be great as Im at work and struggling

Draggable Buttons
I have created a draggable button that works fine. The problem is that I created another button which leads to a URL that seems to get dragged along with the other button even though it is on a different layer and has no script. Does anyone know how to seperate the button behavior or keep the entire movie from being dragged with the draggable button? Thanks for your help
Terry C

Draggable Menu
Hi there,

Reading about inertia and dragging things in Foundation Actionscript (thank you mr. Sham Bhangal), I wanted to make a draggable menu. One button is used to move the menu, the menuitems are supposed to follow that button. My problem is that the menuitems aren't aligned after moving the menu around. Any suggestions?
http://users.skynet.be/sky39384/flash/drag_menu.fla
http://users.skynet.be/sky39384/flash/drag_menu.swf

Draggable Mask
Hey Guys,
Just wondering if it was possible to make a draggable mask. I tried making a mask, turning it into a button and then making it draggable but that didnt work since it takes everything below the mask with it. So when I just want to drag the mask, I end up dragging the maskED images as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys
Don

Draggable Scrolling Help
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
This will be the third time I've tried to post this! Flash kit is TOO SLOOOOOOOOW. It's really frustrating.

So anyway, I really need to find a good, fairly basic tutorial on the scripting involved in creating a draggable scrollbar, preferrably a "continuous feedback" one. I've been working with a tute here on flashkit, but it's a little more advanced than what I need right now. In fact it doesn't even contain any real explanation of how the scrollbar part works, but focuses on adding more advanced features to it. It seems a tad convoluted, but this is the best thing I have found. If anyone knows of a clearer tutorial on the web, or if you could even post a little code with a brief explanation, that would be great. I appreciate any help that anyone could offer.

Draggable Windows
i've been tryin to get this draggable window thing down can someone please help me out? i'm tryin to make a draggable window, alost where you can close it, and also make it retractable as it opens. andy info would help, thanks

Draggable Scroller
i want to make a small scroller in my flash project.

on sreen at the moment i have a line and a small square, the square will be
the draggable scroller and the line will be the guide.

how can i slide the square back and forward the lenth of the line

Draggable Popups.- Help
HI I need some help here. I am trying to use a draggable popup window (a flash generated window, not a browser popup.) and i have gotten one window to work quite well. if usiing multiple windows it doesn't work. To recap what i did....i took the movie clip and buttons and duplicated them gave them other names and in the actions (set property _visible) changed them according to the new file names. still it doesn't work. I downloaded the fla from masaflash's tutorial and have been trying to get a hold of him...no luck. i'd appreciate any help anyone could give me. my deadline is approaching!!!

thanks in advance.

Draggable Objects?
Howdy all-

I'm an experienced programmer (but new to Flash) trying to figure out how to create the appropriate button/movie to allow for a mouse-draggable object (as seen in the myriad draggable/throwable ball demos).

I have the actionScript written for start/stopdrag-ing the button, and the physics for the ball graphic movie, but can't seem to figure out how to connect/link the ball movie and the button to make things work. Is there a way to make the button a child of the movie somehow? Right now my ball object bounces around fine, while the button used for 'grabbing' it just sits in the scene.

Any help (or direction to related tutorial) is much appreciated. Thanks!

Draggable Mask
i am trying to make a "draggable" mask using two movie clips. like the tutorial given here on FK. the mask is working, however when i test the movie and even publish it, the mask, and image that is being masked is cutoff in the upper left hand corner of the page. does anyone know how to get the entire image on the page, i would like the user to get to drag the mask over the whole image, not just that small area.
Thanks
Jon

Snapping A Draggable MC
how can one snap a MC to different spots along a line?

i want to drag a MC along a timeline and have it snap to different spots along the way... or if neccesary, after i release the mouse.

so the effect i'm looking for is for a MC to snap to many different spots as you pull it across a timeline... always snapped one spot or another.

any feedback greatly appreciated!

quazi

CONROLLING A DRAGGABLE MC
Ok, here's the scoop: I have a button in a MC (glossary). when U click the button (in frame1) it goes to frame 2 (still in glossary) and displays another MC that is draggable, minimizable, and maximizable. When the close button is clicked, it goes away. Fine and dandy, that's what I want it to do...

However, I would still like to click the glossary button to run this draggable MC again in case I need it again. What's the scripting for this?

Draggable Objects
How do you make more than 1 draggable object that dosen't take others with it? Give me a detailed explanation with an example.

Draggable Plane
I'm trying to make a Window (Draggleable Plane) in my flash movie. This is what I want to happen:

1. You click a button
2. Window comes up
- I want the window to have a Dragable title bar
- An [X] button that closes the window

Also my movie to have multiple windows but so that each windows open they dont open on completely on top of each other.

-Thanks

Draggable MC Snapping
can you have a droptarget inside another movieclip...and detect it with drop target... any work arounds?

if(eval(_root.draggable._droptarget)==_root.hotspo t.MC){
}

[en]

Draggable Resize
Question. How could I make something like: http://www.globz.com

The resize button where the user can click and drag the movieclip bigger. How can this be accomplished?

Draggable Mask
can someone point me to a tutorial on making a mask draggable? I have tried but have not had any success

thanks

Draggable Window
I have this working script for a draggable window:-

on (press) {
startDrag("/well", false, 0, 0, 640, 480);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

I can't figure out what the part in bold does, it works with and with out it.

false, 0, 0, 640, 480

I think the 640 and 480 may be the drag area, Any Suggestions? If you know please gimme loads of detail!

Thanks and Merry Christmas

Draggable Menu
i want a menu that can be drug to only a certain _x and once it has hit that mark i want it to stop how do i do this i have tried allot of things.

Flash MX

Draggable Windows
I'm making a flash site, and I would like that when I click a button a draggable window will pop up, with the information I want. I would also want to do this the easiest way possible. If you can help me with this I would really appreciate it.

How To Make Something Draggable?
Hello

First of all, let me say that I am relatively new to Flash. I am working on something for a web site and want to do an effect like this: I'm going to have about 5 different mustaches and you can drag the mustaches onto a picture in a Flash movie. I have no clue how I would go about doing this. Could someone please help me and sort of explain it to a newbie?

Thanks!

Draggable Masks
I have 2 movieclips in my interactive movie, which have 2 sepearte masks inside the clips. this movieclips are 2 draggable sliders which can only move in the horizontal axis. if you drag any of the slider, the mask inside that clip is also dragged and reveals the filling(the graphics which i want to be seen). my problem is if 2 sliders are dragged in random, then the slider in the bottom layer doesnt function properly meaning there are image jerks. this happens only when you move the slider(in the bottom layer) inside the region already covered by the the other slider(the movie-clip in the top layer).
i am lloking forward if you can come up with a solution for the problem.

Draggable Polygon
I have drawn a polygon, now I want to make the buttons/ MC's on each corner point, so that when a corner is dragged the lines goes along with it. For some reason I can't target the _x and _y values of the duplicated MC's. Please Help

Thanks

Code:
Arrayx=[50,300,0];
Arrayy=[300,315,0];
function DrawPoly1b(StartingPosx, StartingPosy) {
Test.lineStyle(1,xx000000,100);
Test._x = StartingPosx;
Test._y = StartingPosy;
Test.lineTo(Arrayx[0], Arrayy[0]);
Test.lineTo(Arrayx[1], Arrayy[1]);
Test.lineTo(Arrayx[2], Arrayy[2]);
//Creates MC to be placed on
for(i=1; i<4; i++){
duplicateMovieClip(Test, "Test"+i,i);
temp="Test"+i;
temp_x=Arrayx[i-1];
temp_y=Arrayy[i-1];
trace(_root.i._x);
}
}
DrawPoly1b(50,100);