Flash :: Only Some Buttons Work In Drop Down Menus

Buttons: Drop Down Menus
Hi,

I'm working on a very basic Flash website for my girlfriend's Dad and, while I know how buttons work, I have hit a brick wall when it comes to drop down buttons. I hope someone can help.

I have a button marked 'Resume', when you hover above it two sub buttons drop down, (one marked current, the other previous.) All well and good. The problem I have is I can't get these two new buttons to become interactive, (i.e. make an action on keypress go to the required scenes.)

Is there a simple explaination to this? (One that I'm totally missing?)
I have tried looking all over for answers but only seem to find explainations on how to design these buttons, not how to make them work. Any suggestion would be gratefully received.

Thanks.
Ian

Drop Down Menus And Making Them Work With Load Movie.
Thank for your help people...
Im new here so please bare with me..

Thank for your help people...
Im new here so please bare with me..

OK I down loaded an fla tutorial on drop down menus. Its basically a movie with the main menu button and the additional menus buttons with the invisible button within the movie.

The drop down actions and menu work. BUT I cant make the pages/movie.swfs Ive called for in the scrpit to switch.
Basically I am putting a load movie/tell target to change my pages.

What am I doing wrong? is it not possible since the script is inside the movie and not on the movie button?

heres the .fla files... Ill put the one Ive DL and the one I created maybe I did it wrong/
Please let me know..
Thanx- :O)

Its basically a movie with the main menu button and the additions menus buttons with the invisible button inside the movie.

The drop down actions and menu work. BUT fro some reason I cant make the pages Ive called for in the scrpit to switch.
What Im basically doing is putting a load movie./ tell target to change my pages.

What am I doing wrong? is it not possible since the script is inside the movie and not on the movie button?

heres the .fla file... Ill putb the one Ive DL and the one I created maybe I did it wrong/
Please let me know..
Thanx- :O)

Simple Multiple Drop Down Menus Dont Work
I'm trying to get several instances of a menu to work in Flash 8. I want to have 16 thumbnail images, each with a different drop down menu associated with it. I can get it to make the menus, but the showMenu positioning won't allow me to create different locations for each menu. This sample code always results in the LAST menu being shown. Only one will show at a time. What am I missing? Thanks

// sample code to display 2 drop down menus from Flash 8. Only one at a time will display
import mx.controls.Menu;

var my_xml:XML = new XML();

// Create items for the first menu my_xml
var newItem_obj:Object = my_xml.addMenuItem({label:"New"});
my_xml.addMenuItem({label:"Open", instanceName:"miOpen"});
my_xml.addMenuItem({label:"Save", instanceName:"miSave"});
my_xml.addMenuItem({type:"separator"});
my_xml.addMenuItem({label:"Quit", instanceName:"miQuit"});

// Create the second menu.
var my_xml2:XML = new XML();

// Create items for the menu.
var newItem_obj:Object = my_xml2.addMenuItem({label:"New2"});
my_xml2.addMenuItem({label:"Open2", instanceName:"miOpen"});
my_xml2.addMenuItem({label:"Save2", instanceName:"miSave"});
my_xml2.addMenuItem({type:"separator"});
my_xml2.addMenuItem({label:"Quit2", instanceName:"miQuit"});

// now create the first menu - my_xml and my_menu
var my_menu:Menu = Menu.createMenu(_root, my_xml);
_root.my_menu.show(100, 20);

// Create and show the second menu.
var my_menu2:Menu = Menu.createMenu(_root, my_xml2);
_root.my_menu2.show(300, 20);

// now set up the listeners

var menuListener1:Object = new Object();
menuListener1.change = function(evt_obj:Object) {
trace("Menu item chosen1: " + evt_obj.menuItem.attributes.label);
_root.my_menu.show(100, 20);
_root.my_menu2.show(300, 20);
};

var menuListener2:Object = new Object();
menuListener2.change = function(evt_obj:Object) {
trace("Menu item chosen2: " + evt_obj.menuItem.attributes.label);
_root.my_menu.show(100, 20);
_root.my_menu2.show(300, 20);
};
// set up the listeners so we know which item was selected
my_menu.addEventListener("change", menuListener1);
my_menu2.addEventListener("change", menuListener2);

Drop Down Menus And Animated Buttons
Seeing as i cant seem to do either of these, i was wondering if someone could tell me where to go to get some tutorials or at least some general information or how to do this kinda thing.

thanks.

Buttons Don't Work When I Use Context (right-click) Menus
When I use the right-click menu to call functions, buttons that call the same functions doesn't work. When I don't, the buttons work.

Why is that so?

Drop Down Buttons Dont Work
I have my drop down menu which works but I cant get the buttons to work.

The drop down menu is a movie clip

How can I tell each of the buttons inside the movieclip to go to a specific frame in the main movie

Drop Down Menu Buttons Won't Work
Ok I think this should be easy, but I must have missed something...I have made a drop down menu, that through shape tweening expands when you mouse over a tab...and when its fully expanded...buttons show up...I want the buttons to perform actions when clicked, but as it is now, I cannot get them to simply trace...

I have a movieclip named tools on the main stage...this tools movieclip is the one that expands when you hover over its tab...in the tools movieclip I have a button that shows up when the tab is expanded...."jButton"

in the main movie...I am trying to access it using the following code...

tools.jButton.onRelease = function()

that does nothing...

in the tools movieclip I tried to put actionscript

jButton.onRelease = function()

this does nothing as well...please help...I am trying to make a simple tools menu which will allow the user to print or save the contents of a movieclip...as as soon as the buttons perform any action I can go on to coding the ideas above...

Drop Down Rollover Menu Buttons Dont Work
hi i need help!! ok the problem is; im in the middle of creating a button that rolls back to original state using onrollover and onrollout - that works fine. The trouble im having is mixing this with a drop down type menu with button on - the buttons on the drop down menu dont work when in the same movie clip as the onrollover script ---

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

--- this is the fla --- http://www.jusloungin.co.uk/dropdown.fla.
this is the swf --- http://www.jusloungin.co.uk/dropdown.swf
I would be very greatful if someone here can help me get the buttons on the drop down to function. or if there is an alt way of doing this...thanks in advance. Paul (i hope i made sense )

Drop Down Menus Drop Down UNDER HTML - HELP
Hello-
I am creating a classic dropdown menu system (5 top elements, multiple elements below) and I have the tutorial and a couple of samples. The menu looks great.

However it drops down below the HTML that is absolute positioned near it.

I have made the movie transparent, and then positioned the html within the space of the movie. The HTML is on top.

I tried z-order (in IE) but to no avail.

Any ideas?

I am doing this to move away from a "frames" site.

Flash And Firefox Drop Down Menus - Menus Appear Behind Flash
Hi,

In firefox, if you browse to http://www.unitedpatients.co.uk/index.php and mouse over "What the Doctors Say" you will see that the drop down menu generated by Fireworks appears behind the Flash file on the right side of the page.

This was an issue in IE but was fixed by adding:

Code:
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Any ideas on doing something similar to make it work in Firefox (this also affects Safari on the mac)

Thanks in advance!

Scott

Drop Down Menus
I am sort of a beginner to Flash but I'm interested in creating drop down menus in flash. I do not want my whole site to be in flash, just really the menus.

My question is, how do I get the menus to drop down over the HTML content? Like the ones at http://www.harleydavidson.com?

It seems now when I enter the .swf file into a table for a web page it needs to enter the whole size of teh Flash file so you can see the menus when they appear?

Thanks,
Mark_Mess

Drop Down Menus?
Looking for a quick tut on how to make "SIMPLE" drop down menus. Example: On rollOver of button..Drop menus appear!...(Actually I want to make it animated..the drop down menu animated..that is).....
So any help..or tuts on this would be appreciated. Can someone explain the "TRACK AS:" option does?? Track as button or track as menu?? I thought I saw it once...somewhere... Any help?..THANKS!!

-whispers-

Drop Down Menus?
I've seen some drop down menus on sites, and in a new site I'm doing, the clients want to use them.

What's the proper way of doing this? I can think of a way of sorta fudging it, but that's bad design. Better yet, can anyone send me an open source fla that I can look at?

Drop Menus
Hi,

I am looking for some help with making expanding sub menus or to be pointed to a tutorial on this.

Basically I want to have some thing like the below happen...

Menu 1
Menu 2
Menu 3

To become...

Menu 1
Sub menu 1
Sub menu 2
Menu 2
Menu 3

When a menu item is clicked on.

Thanx for any help!

Drop-down Menus
if you go to kascope.com

how do you do the bouncing effect on their navigation?

Drop-down Menus In Mx
Greetings,

Intro: I am experienced with drawing and animation in Flash 4. I just accquired some commercial web space and now I am starting over in Flash mx. My goal is to create an interactive and inviting site featuring my work (e-gallery) and an online store. I am using the paypal shopping cart. The "theme" of my site is Afro-american art with a jazzy neo-soul bohemian type of feel.

Problem: For starters I would like to create a simple navigation bar-style menu along the top edge of my Flash movie (home page). I would like the menu to
1. be animated (all menu headings and options highlight when moused over)
2. be a strip of main headings that when clicked, a "box" of subheadings slides down.
3. include a main heading that controls the type of background music (loop) that plays. The subheadings would be the music choices.

I have no experience with this type of project. All I know how to do is make animated buttons. I am not familiar with action scripting. Can someone recommend how this project should be appraoched? Where can I find a good tutorial and sample?

My current page is at http://www.haynesart.com
Please ignore the bugs (didn't finish because I want to overhaul the whole thing anyway) You'll see right away why I want to jazz up my page

Thanks

Drop-down Menus
I'm trying to create a site that has a navbar with drop down menus using Flash 5, on a Mac.

So far I've looked at the 3 tutorials I could find here at Flash Kit and the best one was "Creating Popup Menus" by Brett Taylor. However, it seems that tutorial was created only for single buttons. I say that because the final step in that tut. is to create a "hider button" that lets the user roll out of the area so the menu disappears again. The hider button is to be slightly larger than the menu area.

SO the problem is: I have my navbar buttons nested right up next to each other. Therefore, the hider button runs into other hider buttons next to it... creating popup menu chaos.

Does anyone know a different last step to that tutorial? OR Does anyone have a much more efficient way to create a navbar with drop-downs?

All help is welcome, but the quicker the response, the more I'll respect you.

Drop Down Menus
I'd like to create drop down menus for my website. Can this be done with flash or is this something that must be doen with Javascript?

Drop-down Menus
Drop-down or fly-out menus are everywhere and mighty useful, but I cannot figure out how to make them work right. The tutorials I have found so far have not helped. (It might help if I was a little better at this) Anyway, if anyone knows any good tutorials for this, I would love to check them out. I am becoming addicted to this stuff. Thanks.

Drop Down Menus
I need to make drop menus in flash and I cant find out how anywhere! Can someone help???

Drop Menus
Having problems with my drop menus. Basically, the menu items are cascading down out of sequence. I'm trying to get it to look sort of look like the menus on this site. Thanks for your help.

Drop Down Menus
Hey guys. ive seen it done i think before. if i want to have a webpage with frames, two rows, top row only say 75 pixels high and i want to put a flash drop down menu in it. the thing is, i can't afford to waste space on the page as its already fairly busy. is it possible to have the flash drop down menu appear over the frame border? like have it go from one frame to another overlapping so that its on top? if this is possible, please drop me a line and if so, how can it be done?
thanks in advance

Help With Drop Down Menus Please
if anyone knows how to make a drop down menu work, and i don't mean the drop down bars found in registration pages, but drop downs on a menu, that would be very helpful thank you

Pop Up/Drop Down Menus
I'm a bit of a novice here, I'm using MX and I would appreciate any and all advice, help, or reference regarding this subject. Do you incorporate them into the main timeline or not, if so how, if not how do you target the main timeline from one in a movie clip.

Drop Down Menus
I just started learning flash about a week ago. I have learned all the basic stuff and some action script (i already know JAVA so programming is no problem). When I was reading the tutorial on how to create drop down menus i came across something i had not read about before. It instructed to create a submovie. I looked it up on this site and i looked on google and i was unable to find out how to do so. I am using flash mx 2004 pro . Thanks for your time

Drop Down Menus
Can anyone out there tell me how to make a drop down menu as a button so that i can script the drop down menu's button to go to different scenes. apparently this can''t be done if the drop down menu is a movie clip.

phew, hope that makes sense

Drop Down Menus
Hey gang!
I am working with a drop down menu...
could someone help me out with a detail?

for some reason, my text falls down WAY below the area where i would like it to.. how do i fix this so make the drop down shorter?
i hope this makes sense!
thanks

Drop Down Menus
Urgent Help needed...
I'm having trouble getting drop down menus to work, currently i've got a menu bar with several buttons that have rollover effects, and a movieclip in the _root timeline that has all the submenu items in it, they've all been animated and have code to play the submenu items when the buttons are down, and a reference to a variable in the root timeline to read, to get the buttons to go to the next frame, defined in the on release of the main menu. my problem is that i cant get the variable to actually play.
the submenu doesnt actually play when i release on the buttons.
any suggestions?

Drop Down Menus
Hi,

I am working on drop down menus for the of my www.mondesign.net protfolio website. I am able to get the menus to drop down fine and hover like a link, it even could load a hyperlinks fine, but when I try to get those links to goto a frame in a different scene it errors out and goes to frame one.

The buttons symbols themselves are inside a movie symbol, so they are buried atleast one symbol down. Is it possible to contol the top level of the movie from a couple symbols down?

I am using Flash 5 right now and would like to finish the site in Flash 5, but I do have Flash MX2004 if that is the only way to get this to work.

Thanks
Steve B.

Drop Down Menus
Hello first thread and first website in the making!, in flash MX i am trying to create a drop down menu when you click on a button and it makes a menu scroll up or down and then the user can choose an option to go onto another page. sorry if there is tutorial here but can not find it. can anyone help me please?
If there is anyone who can help please can you tell me it in simple terms as i am not up with the technical talk yet!

thanks
cazwalks

Drop Down Menus
Hi,

Really newbie question - am trying to do a simple rollover menu where the lower level buttons overlap, i.e. something like this site . Can I achieve this without inserting any action script? No matter what the answer is, are there any decent tutorials on this that somebody can point me to? All the ones that I have tried are either too advanced or don't quite achieve the effect I am looking for. Any help would be much appreciated (am using Flash 8).
Many thanks

Drop Down Menus
i need to include a dropdown menu, and i want the dropdown menu to contain three different fields from a database fed into flash though COld Fusion. Any idea how i:

a) can include a dropdown menu
b) feed the values from the database into this menu.

thanks

Drop-down Menus
Hi ppl.

I was trying to built a menu in flash, i wanted to built with a drop-down
effect by move over, then publish and insert the swf file on frontpage.
the problem is the swf will have the space work that you used on flash
to make the drop drow menus to appear.

I want to move over or click then the menu appears vertically ou horizontally,
but it will move over the rest of the web site, is that possible?

Here's an example - http://www.comingsoon.net/
the drop-down menus move over the rest of the site which is made in frontpage.

Drop Down Menus
Could someone point out a tutorial or something to me for more advanced drop down menu. I've always used the method seen here http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm

What happens here tho is that when you have multiple drop down buttons like this on the screen and you quickly move your mouse across them the menus will stay open and it looks really bad. What can I do to prevent this?

Drop Down Menus
I have created a flash drop down menu by creating a movie clip of each individual category of my menu. I'm having a little trouble with the retration of a few of the drop down menus. I was wondering if anybody knew whether I was supposed to create just one movie clip that contained all of my different menu buttons, or if I was supposed to create individual movie clips for each one of my menu items.

Thanks,

caelliot

Drop Down Menus
I am trying to design a drop down menu, and when a button is rolled over, a list of new buttons pops up below. For now, to close the menu when the user rolls away i used invisible buttons (roll over, go to frame #) to close it down. The problem with this is the user moves too quickly over these buttons, the menus stay open. Is there an easier way to do this?

Drop Down Menus
Hi everyone

this is my first post so I hope you understand what im on about!
I have created a flash movie with drop down menus in it. When you click the button at the top the menu expands. I have several of these all in a vertical line. My question is this... How do i make those buttons 'shuffle up' when the menu items are not expanded?

eg.

button- Sesame Street
drop down- - ground floor
- 1st floor
- 2nd Floor
- 3rd Floor

Button- Pigeon street
drop down- - Basement
- Ground
- 1st floor

so when sesame street drop down is not expanded i want pigeon street to move up so it is underneath sesame street

like this

button -Sesame Street
button -Pigeon street

and then when it is expanded for pigeon street to move down so it doesnt obscure the text. hope that makes sense

Drop Down Menus?
I'm been searching for a while for a simple solution to create a drop down menu nav bar for a client's site. What is the preferred method for this? CSS, Flash, javascript??

I've found software that generates the menus, but they all seem to be for Windows and I'm on a Mac. I don't need anything fancy, just the basics. Where can I turn?

I would prefer a Mac-compatible software solution at a decent price or a detailed tutorial that a programming newbie can follow. But I really just want to know how the majority of these are done. Any help is appreciated.

Fly-in Drop Down Menus.
Does anyone know how you would make the Fly_in drop down menus from this http://www.actionscript.org/tutorial...us/index.shtml tutorial work with flash8?

Drop Down Menus
Just trying to figure out how to make a button, that when hovered over, extends to a menu, over the page. Tried it with DW, but the drop down menu doesn't come out of the box. How to do this? Thanks!

Drop Down Menus (Can't Get It Right)...
hi everybody:

i'm trying to build a drop down menu for a site's navigation.

i've searched google and all the flash forums i can think of, and i keep getting the same results.

i've tried the "invisible button" method -- whereby rolling over an invisible button surronding the menu causes it to collapse -- which works OK, but not too great. My buttons are close together and the sometimes the mouse doesn't recognize the invisible button.

I'm happy with the results when I attach an rollover/rollout actionscript to my menu, but that overrides the actions on my submenu.

Is there any way I can get around this?
Can I put the actionscript somewhere so the rollover/rollout doesn't screw it all up?

Thanks in advance for any wisdom...
R.

Drop Down Menus In CS4
To be specific, would these drop down menus on this page http://www.flashden.net/category/flash/menus-buttons/horizontal-menus work in CS4?

Cam Flash CS4 create drop down menus without getting into scripting? If so, is it like DW? Want to do a site like this http://www.theswag.com/about.htm Thanks.

SH

Edited: 10/08/2008 at 01:00:32 PM by shoutzager

Drop Down Menus
hey again, i have a question about drop down menus. i am curious how to create drop down menus with the menu items then being clickable themselves. This seems like a relatively simple thing to do and there are tons of sites that have them. If it's unclear what i'm talking about, go to
www.macromedia.com/software/flash/
and just click on any of the links, that have a down arrow, on the right side of the page.
thanks -