Flash :: Floating Menu Options

Floating Menu
Hi...

I´m very keen on finding out how to build a menu like this one that is build on this site, I´m not sure about what I should call it a floating, interaktiv or dynamic menu?? well, anyway would be happy for any answers at all, that would help me solve this problem.

http://www.davidbowie.com/freebowie2/index.html

Does anybody have an idea about where I could find the actionscript to build this or how to do it.... I would be very greatful for any tips, answers or even a source file where I could figure this out?!
:rolleyes:

Thanx...

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Floating Menu?
Hey. I am trying to figure out how to make my menu buttons "float" randomly around and then sort of move away (slightly) from the mouse. I have seen this but can't remember where. I am sure it involves some kind of math/actionscripting thing .. >:|
Any pointers or shoves in the right direction?
muchas gracias.

(flash 5)

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'Floating' Menu - Need Some Help
I'm putting together a floating navigation, basically identical to what's here: http://www.wynnlasvegas.com

I know this is fairly easy and has been used ad nauseum for years, but with my limited scripting skills it's somewhat of a challenge.

Anyone here have a link to an example file I can reference? Or possible have the code handy I can use? I'm using Flash 8 if that makes a difference.

Thanks

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Floating Menu Help - Thanks
Hi Guys, I have a menu on my site which floats in the bottom right side of the page. I want to do the same, but for the top left side, so no matter where on the site the user is, the menu will be in the top left side.

Which part of my script below currently tells my menu.swf to stay at the bottom right hand side, cause i can't work it out.

Thanks for your help.

// Includes the tweening extensions.

#include "mc_tween2.as"

// Assigns each button its own functions.

// Of course, these buttons were created at design time, on the Flash IDE itself.
// Usually, you wouldn't do that with serious projects, you'd create them dinamically from some "template"
// movieclip (or from some component).

// This is an array, a list of the buttons used.
var myButtons = [this.myButton_1, this.myButton_2, this.myButton_3, this.myButton_4,this.myButton_5,this.myButton_6,th is.myButton_7,this.myButton_8,this.myButton_9,this .myButton_10,this.myButton_11,this.myButton_12,thi s.myButton_13,this.myButton_14,this.myButton_15,th is.myButton_16,this.myButton_18];

// Loops on all buttons from the first to the last one
for (var i=0; i<myButtons.length; i++) {
// Sets its original Y value. This will be used later for reference.
myButtons[i].originalX = myButtons[i]._x;

// When the mouse rolls over this menu option... go down just a bit.
// NOTICE: I'm not taking into consideration the problem of having the hit area going down and "moving" the
// mouse area and out of the button (possible rollover flicking). This is just a simple example afterall.
myButtons[i].onRollOver = function() {
this.tween("_x", this.originalX + 10, 1);
this.alphaTo (60, 2);
};
// When the mouse exits the menu option.. go back up.
myButtons.onRollout = myButtons.onReleaseOutside=function () { this.tween("_x",this.originalX,0.5);this.alphaTo(1 0,100);
};;;;;;;;;;
// When the mouse clicks.. activate it!
myButtons.onRelease = function() {
this._parent.activateItem (this);
// *** Add some function here or somewhere else to handle real button actions!
trace ("Hey, button "+this+" was clicked.");
};
}

this.activateItem = function(item) {
// Function that activates a button.

// Checks if there's an activated item already; if so, deactivates it.
if (this.currentItem != false) this.deActivateItem();

// Activates it, finally
this.currentItem = item;
this.currentItem.alphaTo (50, 1); // makes it 'disabled'
this.currentItem.enabled = false; // makes it a disabled button, so it won't receive mouse events
};

this.deActivateItem = function() {
// Deactivates the current activated menu item.
this.currentItem.enabled = true; // back to a normal button/movieclip
this.currentItem.alphaTo (100, 0.5); // back to its original opacity
this.currentItem.tween("_x",this.currentItem.origi nalX,0.5); // back to its original position
this.currentItem = undefined;
};

this.stop();

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3d Floating Menu ?
At the website allmusic.com there is a floating rotating 3d menu !

I've looked at the tutorial 3d under the advanced section, but I think that there is more to it than that !

Can anyone help me with the logic here, please !

Regards
Shihan

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Floating Menu - Help
Hi, all

I tried to reproduce an original example that I downloaded from internet (Original - MENU) in (Mi - Intento) but I can reach the sub_buttons because when I move the mouse pointer out of the main button, the other sub_buttons hides, however in the original it works.

Also I realized that when the configuration of the publication is Flash5 the example does work but with Flash8 it doesn't
I don't realize how do it with flash8, I hope you can help me...

Thanks in advantage...

PD:
The address is: http://www.threemstrade.com/pub/
Save the link with right clic and save link as ..., their extensions are .fla

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Floating Menu
I'm creating a froating menu. when i click on a button the menu appears (using attachMovie).

How can I make that when users click outside the menu it desappear?

tks,

Edited: 01/29/2007 at 06:16:59 PM by oscmejia

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Floating Menu?
hello,
I´m trying to build a floating menu, wich comes out of a logo by clicking on it.
I mean that little squares are flying out of the logo and are floating ore moving with random on the stage.
When You klick on one menu point, the other ones are going into the selected one and out of the selectet one are flying the submenus.

I think I´ve seen somethimg like that ones but I can´t remeber where.
Maybe somebody can give me a hint where I can find something like that or how I can realize that.

Thnx

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Floating Menu?
Tried to search but not sure what you call this. Basically, I need a menu that is always justified to the right no matter how the browser window is scaled. I dont want the menu to scale, just to remain in the top right corner at all times.

I am open to any suggestions on how to pull this off but I will be building the site in Flash. And refs or links to tuts are greatly appreciated.

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Arrrrrrrgh Options Menu Woes
Sigh... I want to create an options menu for my game that has the options to toggle sound on or off, music on or off, and high quality graphics on or off. This is currently a nightmare.

For starters, at first I just put the main menu (with the PLAY and OPTIONS buttons) on the timeline, and then put an instance of the options movieclip on the layer above it. I set the options movieclip's alpha to 0. Then I created actionscript that did this: when the OPTIONS button was pressed, the alpha of the main menu became 0 and the alpha of the options movieclip became 100. I thought this was working great, but for some stupid reason, even though they are on SEPARATE layers, even when the main menu's alpha is 0, you can click through the options menu that's up and press the main menu buttons. This is bad.

So, I decided to have the options menu be "attached" via actionscript when the OPTIONS button is pressed instead of being one layer above with alpha tweaking. THIS STILL DOESN'T SOLVE ANYTHING. I can still press buttons on the main menu through the solid background of the options menu

Furthermore, instead of buttons, inside my options menu I have movie clips that have 1 frame that says "on" and one frame that says "off", so they toggle when pressed (via a nextFrame / prevFrame setup within the movieclip). There are some problems here, too. If I have to attach the movie, it keeps getting unloaded when the user goes back to the main menu, so all the settings reset, which completely nullifies the point. Furthermore, even if I give the three instances of the "ON - OFF BUTTON" movieclip different instance names, they all responsd to any command made to any of their instances, which is confusing and annoying. So, toggling things is physically impossible also, it seems.

I am sorry for the long, flustered explanation. I am just really frustrated by this whole menu mess, especially since my game was going so well before I started messing with the menus and stuff. If I forgot some information you need to help me, just let me know. I'm really tired, and I'm almost done and would really like to complete my game but at the moment these menu problems make no sense to me and I cannot figure out a solution.

Thank you very much for reading all that and for any help you provide!
- wobbly

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Why Are Certain Options In The Action Menu Unselectable?
I am new to Flash5 and this is what I am trying:

I have an instance of a movie clip in layer two, frame one of my movie. I right click the instance and pull up the actions menu. I want to add this code the instance as per a tutorial on this site:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
_root.line._x=random(400);
for (i=0; i<=2; i++)
{
_root.circle.duplicateMovieClip( "circle"+i, i+1);
}
if (i=2){
i=0;
}
}

The problem is when I look into the actions menu the "OnClipEvent" option is grayed out and it will not let me select it. There are a few others grayed out as well:

else
else if
on

Why won't Flash let me select these options?

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance!

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Specific Display Menu Options?
Hi everybody! Hope you're all doing just peachy.

I am, with the one exception being that I just created a flash animation website and I have some "easter egg" type jokes hidden around the pages and cartoons. Most of them require some severe zooming in, however I have included some so that you must be quick to access them. Obviously if you can pause the movie, it's not how I intended it so here's my question:

How can I disable some (play, pause, rewind) features of the right-click Display Menu but keep others (like zoom in/out)? Or can I just enable the zooms?

Hey thanks everybody, I really appriciate the help.

-Space Chicken

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Right Clicking On Movie/menu Options
What determines on how the right click menu is displayed when clicking a movie? Most of the time you get all the options like Zoom In, Zoom Out, Show All etc. but sometimes all you see is About Macromedia Flash 7...

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Options Menu On Library Panel
Hi
1. am a starter with flash mx 2004. i do'nt see the options menu at all on the library panel. i do'nt see it in a grayed out mode too. can somebody help me with this please!

2. can you also recommend some good tutorial sites for beginners.

thanks
Sharada

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Floating Menu/button
I'm not sure how to phrase this, but here it goes.

Can someone tell me what I should look under in the tutorials, or movies, or basically tell me how to do the following;

I created a map in flash, the map is much to large to display the entire map on one screen, even at 1600 X 1200 resolution. I want to create a smaller key map plan of the entire map in the upper left hand corner. When the user clicks on a location of the smaller map, it'll bring the user to the location on the much larger map. The small key map would have to be able to scroll with the user up, down, left or right, but would have to stay fixed in the upper left hand corner. Can someone direct me to the right location on learning how to do this, or what to look under?. Thanks.

p.s. if what I'm explaining isint clear, I'll post a pic of what I'm trying to do.

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[F8] Floating Flash Menu
I have taken over a Flash project and am wondering how to proceed. Any input/links/tutorials would be greatly appreciated.

There are 4 separate areas to the site (all separate Flash movies) and a 5th movie that acts as a "communicator" between the sites. The communicator should pop up and float over the open site (with the open site still visible underneath) and contain the links to the 4 areas.

What are the methods to accomplish this? Is it done with ActionScripts and layers in Flash?

Thanks

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Randomly Floating Menu
i have a menu (as seen here: http://topic101.com) that is floating but not how i want. its just a fake thing i did up really quickly.

i would like it to appear as if it were really in water, floating around randomly. i'm also wondering if there is a way to have the image change when the menu hits the edges of the image.

any help would be very very much appreciated.

thanks.

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3D Floating Carosel Menu
In trouble and in need of actionscript help.....!

I have created a 3D floating carosel menu from a tutorial ...which moves around as you click on the individual "balls"(couldnt think of a better word-will make sense if you see the file...) but basically I need to attach each individual ball to its own function ie(loading a Movie clip on the main timeline)....

I would imagine this is possible but am struggling to get it working...

anyone up for the challenge>?????

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I Need To Create A Floating Menu
BEGINNER; PLEASE HELP!!!

I have created a menu at the bottom of my webpage but it sometimes doesnt appear if opened on a computer with a small screen. How can I tell this menu (which is a self contained movie clip symbol) to always appear at the bottom of the page without creating a scroll bar.

Should I make the menu into a floating menu and if so what is the actionscript to do this?

Thanks in advance

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3D Floating Menu With Perspective
Anybody knows a thread or link to a tutorial for making a 3d menu system where the buttons are floating on the screen like around a globe and they move closer to the mouse cursor when they are selected?
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Floating Menu System
I've been trying to develop this menu system in which you can collapse/drag and rearrange menus. I've attached what I have so far, but I've been running into problems and I'm hoping someone can guide me in the right direction.

One of the larger problems I'm at right now is rearranging the menus. If, for example, I move the top menu to the bottom, the other 3 menus don't shift up and I can't seem to figure it out.

Any help would be really appreciated.

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Floating Sticky Menu
Hello all
I need to come up w/ some sort of small nav bar for a cd portfolio I have to do for school. There was something I saw a while back on this site (I found through here) that I really liked. I put this in my favorites, but it won't load anymore. Anyways, the buttons were like "floating" and moving around, and when the mouse went over one, the button like "stuck" to it, and followed the cursor, unless you "yanked" it away from the button. It was way cool. Anyone know where I can learn how to do this? You can try the link, but I doubt it will work, maybe some of y'all even know this guy, I have to say that his site is one of my top 5 favs.

Thanks, out.

http://raf.lavaland.net/

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Is it possible to blend/alpha/opacity a part of a website (in this case a drop-down menu) with flash (like have flash over the text thats semi transparent)

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Floating Motion Menu HELP
wot Im trying 2 do is thus

a menu of seven graphics/buttons floating around

when you mouse over one of them it STOPS

if you follow thought and click it gets bigger and then the fuctionality to link out.

I guess it sounds easy, but im having a bit of thouble.

I tried puting a button into a clip, the clip onto a motion path in a clip and then gave the command on mouse over stop to the button... do you think it worked NOT A CHANCE

Any help please would be great a .FLA would be better

cheers

Jason

jason@roomone.com

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i want to know how to disable a menu option and enable it when needed. i have included the file here. please help me out!

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Floating Menu Won't Stop At Ends?
Hi,
I'm trying to do a floating navigation bar at the top of the screen. I've combined three different scripts, so that when I roll out of the menu, it stops, instead of continuing to scroll. Problem is, I can't get it to stop when it reaches the end of the menu on both sides. It just keeps on scrolling, and gets lost off screen. Is there some way I can tell it to stop, or set speed to 0, or something like that? It's controlled by a follow mouse movie clip. The second frame of the follow mouse clip has this script

:drag = "/dragControl";
/:w = getProperty("/nav", _width);
/:xPos = getProperty(drag, _x);
/:yPos = getProperty(drag, _y);
// next 2 lines center the menu drag to the screen
/:yPos = /:yPos-50;
/:xPos = /:xPos-200;
// SET DRAG SPEED (inverse)
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setProperty ("/nav", _x, getProperty("/nav", _x)-(/:xPos/speed));
if (Number(getProperty("/nav", _x))<Number(-(/:w/2))) {
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} else if (Number(getProperty("/nav", _x))>0) {
setProperty ("/nav", _x, -/:w/2);
}

The movie clip is called "dragControl" and the menu is "nav"
I've been staring at this clip for a week and I don't know which way to go. I would really appreciate any thought, ideas! Thanks!
miakazi

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How Can I Stop A Floating Menu On A Rollover?
I have a menu that floats around the screen counter to where the mouse is positioned. Within the menu movie clip there are four buttons housed in a single movie clip of their own. What I'm trying to do is stop the menu mc from floating when the mouse rolls over any part of the menu mc.

I can accomplish it on the main timeline by putting a stop action on the first frame of the menu mc instance but this makes my four buttons inactive.

Is there any way to adjust the commands within the floating menu timeline? Here is the code on the first frame of the menu MC:

xspan = getProperty("_root.menu", _x)-getProperty("_root.center", _x);
yspan = getProperty("_root.menu", _y)-getProperty("_root.center", _y);
setProperty(_root.menu.balls, _rotation, (360-xspan)+(360-yspan));

if ((xspan*xspan)>0) {
setProperty("", _x, Number(getProperty("_root.center", _x))+Number((xspan*0.9)));
xspan = xspan-1;
} else {
setProperty("", _x, getProperty("_root.center", _x));
}
if ((yspan*yspan)>0) {
setProperty("", _y, Number(getProperty("_root.center", _y))+Number((yspan*0.9)));
yspan = yspan-1;
} else {
setProperty("", _y, getProperty("_root.center", _y));
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_y += (getProperty("_root.center", _y)-_root._ymouse)*.1;

I'm not sure where to put a rollover conditional statement within the code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a link to show you how it works without the rollover effect:

http://www.robpedini.com/floatingMenu.html

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I am creating a bar with several buttons for the top which I am including on
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looks good and crisp, however, when I preview in Dreamweaver or IE6 it is
fuzzy. I have been able to reproduce the fuzzy problem in Flash by
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publish settings of Flash and the option is not available in Dreamweaver.
Can I hardcode it in Dreamweaver?

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I have been asked to come up with a similar interface to this one:
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_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
positionX = _root._xmouse - 50;
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I have it floating just fine, moving from my mouse just as i want it, but unfortunately i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to stop at the document bounds. I have tried everything i can think of and have been searching tutorials all over the place but with no success. If anyone can help me out, i would greatly appreciate it. BTW, this is my first Flash project, so i'm new to the program and actionscripting, please bare with me. (btw, my motivation for this menu is the xmen 3 dvd site. . .http://www.xmenthelaststanddvd.com/# Once you click 'enter site', skip intro, and click the navigate button, you'll see what i mean).

Edited: 05/29/2007 at 12:40:14 PM by maverick21383

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i'll attach what i have so far so you can see what i'm talking about lol

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