Flash :: Drop Down Menu Problem

Drop Down Menu PROBLEM-Down State For Sub-menu Item Linked To External SWFs?
Hi nice to meet everyone. The drop down menu I'm referring to is located in the main movie. The menu is a movie clip with the buttons inside and I have each button as 'track as menu item' in the properties. The buttons are linked to external swfs that load in the empty movie clip on the main movie stage. Everything loads perfectly no problem. I can't seem to figure out the right code to put on the sub-menu items/buttons in the drop down menu to show the 'down' state when the corresponding movie is loaded (i.e., about-main button, philosphy(menu item). When the 'philosphy' swf loads how do I get the 'philosphy' button that is in the main movie to show the 'down' state until another button is pressed on the menu? I hope I explained myself clear enough without confusing anyone!

Below is a sample of the code that I currently have on the the regular buttons that DO NOT sub-menu items:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop("home");
_root.contents.loadMovie("home.swf");
}

And here is the code that I currently have on the main buttons that have sub-menu items:

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("philosphy2.swf");
setProperty("_root.home", _visible, "0");
}

I have searched everywhere on the net, tutorials and still can't find the answer, I've been working on this for almost a week now and I just can't get it right.

Thanks again your help is greatly appreciated!

Drop Down Menu-Down State For Sub-menu Item Linked To External SWFs?
Hi nice to meet everyone. The drop down menu I'm referring to is located in the main movie. The menu is a movie clip with the buttons inside and I have each button as 'track as menu item' in the properties. The buttons are linked to external swfs that load in the empty movie clip on the main movie stage. Everything loads perfectly no problem. I can't seem to figure out the right code to put on the sub-menu items/buttons in the drop down menu to show the 'down' state when the corresponding movie is loaded (i.e., about-main button, philosphy(menu item). When the 'philosphy' swf loads how do I get the 'philosphy' button that is in the main movie to show the 'down' state until another button is pressed on the menu? I hope I explained myself clear enough without confusing anyone!

Below is a sample of the code that I currently have on the the regular buttons that DO NOT sub-menu items:

ActionScript Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("home");
_root.contents.loadMovie("home.swf");
}

And here is the code that I currently have on the main buttons that have sub-menu items:

ActionScript Code:
on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("philosphy2.swf");
setProperty("_root.home", _visible, "0");
}

I have searched everywhere on the net, tutorials and still can't find the answer, I've been working on this for almost a week now and I just can't get it right.

Thanks again your help is greatly appreciated!

How To: Create A Drop Down Menu With XML Data For Menu Items
Can anyone help by showing me or pointing me in the right direction of how I'd go about creating a drop down menu and populating the menu items from an XML file?

I'm creating a tour sort of thing and I have it pulling in the slides of the tour from an XML file and all the next/prev buttons are working fine. I wanted to add a drop down menu from the top that has the menu items pulling in from elements from the XML file. Possible? Ideas?

Thx

Menu Vs. Submenu Appearance : XML-Driven Drop-Down Menu Help
I love Senocular's XML-Driven Drop-Down Tutorial. But I can't seem to get it to make the menu headers look different from the submenus.

Any help?

See the tutorial

Much appreciated.

(and if anyone is interested, i've turned it into a horizonal menu... reply and i'll post the code. better yet, help me fix the GUI issue and i'll post it )

Flash Expanding Menu Instead Of Javascript Drop Down Menu?
I am trying to make a flash file that will take the place of a javascript drop down menu. I need to have a slim horizontal menu bar surrounded top and bottom by the rest of the HTML webpage.

The function of the flash menu would be such that when one of the buttons are moused over > the menu would expand over the HTML images below it with more menu buttons.

This is really easy to do with javascript but I want the creative freedom flash offers. Does anyone know how I can create a flash file that can expand larger than it’s original size on the webpage

I have seen some really neat flash banner ads that definitely are on top of other html. Maybe I could do something like that.

Please let me know any ideas or resources I could use to do this.

Thanks.

Senocular's XML Drop-Down Menu - How To Use Different Clips For Menu And Item?
I have been playing with the Senocular's tute on xml, and was wondering how i would implement one look for the menu items and one for the submenu's.

I tried doing if statements (if name attribute = name, the use a different clip) but that didnt seem to work.

Any ideas?

Drop Menu With Toggle Menu Items
I am having an issue with the toggle state of a couple of buttons in a menu.
I have provided a simplified version of a menu system I am trying to build as a zipfile attachment.

the first menu is empty. For this demonstration it has no purpose but to move the main time line from from frame 1, to frame 2.

The second menu (on frame 3) turns off and on two movie clips that are loaded externally. I have no problem initially loading them, and no problem turning them off and on with the toggle switch's loadMovie and unloadMovie commands.

The problem comes when I've unloaded a movie using the toggle button in the second menu, then click on the first menu. When I've clicked on the 2nd menu again, the toggle switch isn't in the same state that it was last left in. I have no idea how to make it remember which state it was in.

Is there someway I could ask,
"If movie is not loaded, got to off state.
If movie is loaded, go to on state." ?

Here is a zip file with the FLA files and the external SWF's.

Here is the menu in action:
Click here

Please help if you can.

Scolling Menu With Drop Down Menu In Side
hey all im trying to design a site with a scrolling menu which will let you scroll from page to page also on each page there is a drop down menu. I was wondering how I would go about doing this. Thanks all for your help.

from Rublink182

Horizontal Scroll Menu With Drop-down Menu Over It
hey guys, i'm running MX 2004 pro.
here's what's going on:

i've got a horizontally-scrolling menu (in a movieclip) that is constructed similarly to the tutorial here: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-815/index.php

in the same .fla, there is also a drop-down menu, that when down covers part of the scrolling menu. this, of course, triggers the scrolling menu. ideally, the scrolling menu would instead continue to scroll, and be unaffected by a user selecting an item from the drop down menu.

in the timeline, i have the following code pasted onto the instance of the horizontal scrolling menu:

onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
xmousepos1 = _xmouse;
ymousepos1 = _ymouse;
if (xmousepos1>xmousepos2 && ymousepos1>-45 && ymousepos1<60) {
_root.scrollclip.nextFrame();
}
if (xmousepos1<xmousepos2 && ymousepos1>-45 && ymousepos1<60) {
_root.scrollclip.prevFrame();
}
if (ymousepos1<-45 || ymousepos1>60) {
play();
}
xmousepos2 = _xmouse;
ymousepos2 = _ymouse;
}

how could i modify this so as not to be affected by the drop down menu? unfortunately, moving the position of the drop down is not an option.

thanks for reading and thanks for your time,
decerebrate

XML Drop Menu: Close Menu On Roll Out
Hi,

As I was working through this tutorial I noticed that once the submenu is open you have to click the button to close the submenu.

Any ideas on how to have the submenu close once you roll out of the hit area.

This may be counter-intuitive to the idea of the tutorial but I don't think I'll have any menus beyond the drop down.

Thnaks

Ponyack

XML Drop Down Menu That Populates A List Menu
I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I've taken a few tutorials and from different sites and customized them, but I'm still new to AS 3 and a bit scared of XML, arrays and loops. if anyone can tell me what im doing wrong, that would be excellent. I've attached the xml file as well.

thanks in advance.
-b

ps. if someone has a better way of doing this, i'm open to suggestions. thanks.

//Imports needed for animation
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import caurina.transitions.*;
import fl.data.DataProvider;

//Array used for the tween so they won't get garbage collected
var tweensArray:Array = new Array();
//Used later when we animate the buttons
var buttonTween:Tween;

var yOffset:Number;
var yMin:Number = 0;
var yMax:Number = scrollbox.sb.track.height - scrollbox.sb.thumb.height;

var leagueXML:XML = new XML();
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var request:URLRequest= new URLRequest("league.xml");

loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loaderOnCom plete);
loader.load (request);

function loaderOnComplete(event:Event):void{
leagueXML = new XML(event.target.data);

// Define an array
var league:Array = new Array({label:"Select a Conference",data:""});

// Loop through each video in XML
for each (var conf:XML in leagueXML.conf){
league.push({label:conf.name.toString(),data:conf. team.toString()});
}

// Add array to Combo Box
confCB.dataProvider = new DataProvider(league);
}

confCB.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);

// Tell Flash what to do when an item in the ComboBox is clicked

function changeHandler(event:Event):void {
if(ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem.data != "")
{
//trace(ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem.data);
createMenu();
//trace(leagueXML.league.conf.team.toString());

function createMenu ():void {
//This will be used to represent a menu item
var menuItem:MenuItem;
//Counter
var i:uint = 0;

//Loop through the links found in the XML file
for each (var team:XML in leagueXML.league.conf) {

menuItem = new MenuItem();

//Insert the menu text (link.@name reads the link's "name" attribute)
menuItem.menuLabel.text = team.name;

//If the text is longer than the textfield, autosize so that the text is
//treated as left-justified text
menuItem.menuLabel.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

//Insert the menu button to stage
menuItem.x = 0;
menuItem.y = 0 + i*31;

//Make the button look like a button (hand cursor)
menuItem.buttonMode = true;
menuItem.mouseChildren = false;

//Add event handlers (used for animating the buttons)
menuItem.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);
menuItem.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
menuItem.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick);

//menu_container.holder_mc.addChild (menuItem);
scrollbox.content.holder_mc.addChild (menuItem);
//Increment the menu button counter, so we know how many buttons there are
i++;
}
if (i < 12) {
scrollbox.sb.visible=false;
scrollbox.x = 8.5;
}
}

Drop Menu / Combo Box Menu In Flash MX
Im trying to develop a really simple (i.e. 4 or so links) via a Flash MX Combo Box component...

Im lost as to how the action script looks to actually make it 'work'... I understand how to use the component to create the drop menu (i.e. - the labels and the data (URL) lists)...

Does anyone have an example they can show me or is there a Tutorial somewhere that I've missed in my Googling? (I tried Flashkit.com but no luck.

Thanks for your help!

How To Add Drop Down Menu To This Slider Menu
Hi All,

I need to add a drop down menu to the main menu button called "galleries".

The menu came from one of the awesome kirupa tutorials here, and below is a link to my existing menu w slider:

http://www.innova-techsolutions.com/...8_18_05_bu.htm

When I try to add a popup menu to "galleries" to the over state in galleries, the popup menu dissappears when you rollover the first item.

Here is the .fla, click on gallery, and open up popup_but to see what I've done in the "over" state:

http://www.innova-techsolutions.com/flashgroup.fla

This if my first flash site, and I long over schedule, so I'd sure appreciate any help w this.

Thanks,

Art Hans

Menu Slider With Drop Down Sub-Menu's
I've downloaded the sourcefile for a standard menu slider. How do I now include the ability for it to have drop down sub-categories under each menu heading?

All help will be greatly appreciated.

Lisa

XML Drop Down Menu: How To Hide Sub Menu?
Could anyone shed some light on how to hide the sub-menu on mouse out on the tutorial by Senocular?

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...down_menu7.htm

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Drop Down Menu Within A Dropdown Menu
Hi There, I'm new to the forum and to flash - which is what brought me here in the first place!

My question is; I have a dropdown menu which is fine, but now I need to make two of the buttons in the drop down have their own drop down options, My drop down menu is a movie clip with the buttons etc inside the movie clip and I've been trying to put another movie clip inside the origional to try simulate my origional drop down but it just won't work, am I asking too much of flash or is there an easer way to do this?

Drop Down Menu Help
I've got a movie clip set up with a button on frame one that says "Section 2" on the same frame is a command to "stop." When the mouse moves over the "Section 2" button, the movie clip timeline continues playing, and reveals 4 other buttons. How do I make it so that when you leave the area of those buttons ("Section 2" & Sub-Section 1 - 4), the movie clip returns and stops on frame 1. Is this possible? PLEASE HELP!

Thanks!
AJ
chocochipp@aol.com

Drop Down Menu
I've been through the tutorials and can't seem to figure out how to get it to work. I followed Adam Weeks tutorial to the T and I still couldn't get it to work right. Although, messing about with the code helped me to figure out how to drag stuff around on the stage so that was a major plus (have been trying to do that since I started with flash).

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. If I figure it out myself I'll let you know. I'm going to try it again.

Anita
http://apotterdd.150m.com/

Drop Down Menu
Can any one help me... I want to know how to create drop-down menus and also how can I make a dropdown menu with a movieclip in it.

Drop Down Menu
I am sure you all know the menus that open on mouse over then close on roll out what i was trying was one that slowly scrolled down but all so scrolled up but this is where i get stuck.

1: I dont want it to "Jump" back to the close look on mouse over

2: I all so dont want it to jump to open and then start to close if it is not all the way open when you mouse off

3: not to shut when you mouse over the menu buttons

sorry for the long list it is mainly 1 and 2 i need help with any ideas?

Drop Down Menu
All right everybody!

I have a menu smart clip that has about 25 states in it. When it drops down it extends the length of my Flash movie. Is there any way to set default to maybe 12 states appear at a time and have the rest scroll so it is manageable. Here is the code in my smart clip...

onClipEvent (load) {
myArray = new Array("Arizona","Alabama","California","Florida"," Georgia","Illinois","Indiana","Louisiana","Massach usetts","Michigan","Minnesota","Missouri","New Jersey","New York","Maryland","North Carolina","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania ","South Carolina","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Virginia","W ashingtonDC","Wisconsin");
this.items = myArray;

function onMenu (item, label) {
labelArray = new Array("home","Arizona","Alabama","California","Flo rida","Georgia","Illinois","Indiana","Louisiana"," Massachusetts","Michigan","Minnesota","Missouri"," New Jersey","New York","Maryland","North Carolina","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania ","South Carolina","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Virginia","W ashingtonDC","Wisconsin")
val = labelArray[item]
_root.theClip.gotoAndStop(val);
}
}

Does anyone have any ideas, I really do not want to break up this and say states a-m here and states n-z there....

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe

A Drop Down Menu Box?
Is it possiable to have a drop down with lets say 20 buttons:

Button a
A Button
B button
Button b
etcc..
z button

If a user hits the Z key, the drop done menu will auto. goto the location of the z button????? I have the buttons in a mask. Any help please.

Thanks,

Drop Down Menu
I made a button that when you go over it a drop down menu appears. How do I get the menu to stay, so I can click on a button in the menu? When the initial button loses focus the menu disappears.

Drop Down Menu
I am trying to make a pop out sub menu off the main menu.
When I go into actions to activate the main button to play the movie script. The "on" choice is not activated and if I do it in expert mode it says that it is only for button instances. I realize I am probably missing something very simple. Please help!

Drop Down Menu
I have a button, that i want it to open a dropdown menu movieclip and then click on another button within the menu, then play a reverse movieclip of the menu reversing and move onto the new scene. I'm lost on the actions!

Thoughts?
cheers
Michael

Drop-down Menu Help
Hi,

I've created the popup menu found within this site (by Brett Taylor). Now, I would like to link my submenu buttons to a scene in my movie. The problem is when I add the actionscript to one of my buttons within my movieclip nothing happens.

Here is the script I'm trying to attach to a button within the movieclip:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", "appl");
}

Am I going about this completely the wrong way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
volmer76
lisambuss@hotmail.com

Drop Down Menu
HI,

anyone know where I can get the .fla for a decent drop down menu? I've looked in the movies on Flashkit, and there aren't any good ones there, most don't use actionscript anyway.

thanks

phil.

Drop Down Menu?
helo....

guy i got problem with the drop down menu...

I am trying to make a button that have a drop-down menu when click or highlight...

But i got this problem once i click or highlight it either submenu stuck there and doesn't go away when i highlight / click another button.... and also another thing i can't highlight the submenu at all coz once i go over the hitstate of the BUTTON the drop-menu disappear...

i put the button on the left of the page and when i highlight or click it the drop-down-menu will appear on the right on the button...so this is my problem hope you guyz can give me a help....or send me a sample to help me...

Thanks

Drop Down Menu
I made a drop down menu that consists of 11 buttons in a column, and when the button is clicked, a list of submenus appears. The only problem with it is you can open more than one menu at a time which makes the menu very long. I would like the user to only be able to open one button at a time. For instance, if button 2 has been clicked and its submenu is visible, and the user then clicks on button 3, I would like button 2's submenu to automatically close. Could somebody tell me how to do this and where to put the script? Do variables in the script have to be changed and if so what part of the script do I have to change? I know nearly nothing about scripting, I don't really know what I'm doing. Thanks

Drop Down Menu Help Please...
Basically I have my site and I want add drop down functionality to it. Simple, but what I am missing are the understandings behind the code to make it. If you could show me, teach me, provide a .fla file to work with or just explain here, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
ZogDog:

Need Some Help With Drop Down Menu
I need to make a simple drop down menu. I mean VERY simple! I need to have it so when someone mouses over a button a menu drops down with 2 or 3 different options for them to choose.

If anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

Drop Down Menu Help
I made a menu in flash consisting of 13 drop down buttons. When you click on the button it pushes the buttons below it down and other options show up. This is working fine. I just want to know how to only allow one button at a time to be opened. The way it is currently is all the buttons can be opened at the same time. I would like it to work this way: for example say button #3 is opened. When button #4 is clicked I would like #3 to close and then for #4 to open.

Could somebody please let me know how to make this possible. Ill paste the script into here and I would really appreciate it if soembody could tell me what script I need to add and where to put it. Thanks

Here is the script in the main part:

menu_num = "0";
stop();

counter = menu_num;
while (Number(counter)<13) {
counter = Number(counter)+1;
setProperty("/menu" add (counter), _y, getProperty ( "/menu" add (counter), _y )-100);
}

counter = menu_num;
while (Number(counter)<13) {
counter = Number(counter)+1;
setProperty("/menu" add (counter), _y, getProperty ( "/menu" add (counter), _y )+100);
}

Here is the script for the Up and Down states for each button:

on (release) {
../:menu_num = "1";
call("../:down");
gotoAndStop("down");
}

on (release) {
../:menu_num = "1";
call("../:up");
gotoAndStop("up");
}

Drop Down Menu: Please Help Me
I made one that works but then I tried to make another and it wont work. Take a look at it http://www.aimdl.netfirms.com/1.swf The picture one works but the movie one dissapears before you can click it. Any idea what I did wrong? If you are interested in helping me I can e-mail you the .fla file so you can take a look at it.

Drop Down Menu
does anyone know a better way, in mx, to make a drop down menu. i tried the invizable button, but i dont like it too much. is there any script i could use instead? I'm pretty sure i can remember an "End on" command in flash 5, but i can't find anything like it in mx.

Drop Down Menu
I have a button and inside the button, in the over tab is a movie with the animation for my drop down menu. the plan is that i roll over the button, the menu drops down and then i move my mouse over the dropped down bit. Now heres the problem, when the button is rolled upon, the menu drops down. But when i go to roll over the fallen menu, it reverts back to the starting button. i have tried putting a stop command at the end of the movie but this does not work.

If what i just wrote sounds like gobildegook then tell me and i'll try to explain better.

All susjestions gratefully accepted!
Cheers, Gavin

Drop Down Menu
Hello..I'm having difficulty with a drop down menu...wondering if anyone knows how or has a tutorial on how to do one???

BT

Drop Down Menu
Hello,
i am trying to create a drop down button menu. It works like this.

On the main timeline is a movie clip, inside this movie clip is an invisble button,

frame 1 is the button in the down state

when you roll over the button it goes to frame 2, which shows the dropped down buttons. It has a second invisable button which is the size of the drop down menu, when you roll off this button it is supposed to go back to frame 1 .

The problem is this, if I put the second invisable button on the top layer, you cant select the buttons under it. If i put it under the buttons, as soon as you roll over one of the buttons, the menu collapses.

any help would be great.