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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:55 am
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Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has any working drop menus like this one out there
they could kindly share so I can deconstruct.

http://www.simonds.com.au/?f=1

I am able to replicate the effect using tweens and basic AS but the process I
have used involves hitareas being place all around the outside of the menus to
get them to slide back in when I rolloff the menu (and onto the hit areas).
They thing works but is quite ugly and makes the space unneath these hit areas
comprimised.

Hopefully someone has a bit more of an intelligent design using more AS
without losing the smoothness of the animation I could take a look at.

If anyone could assist would be greathttp://www.simonds.com.au/?f=1

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:22 pm
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Hi

This should be relatively easy to reproduce, I'll create an F8 sample version
for you to destroy.
I will try to have to you by the weekend.

Send me an email address so I can send it to you.

Caio For Now

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:23 pm
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Hi Feldkircher,

Any help would be great, my email is messlah.DeleteThis@hotmail.com

If the code gets super complex if you could comment it to help me understand would even be better..

Thanks again
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:14 am
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also could you please send me your email so I can send you the files I've been working on
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:11 am
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Hi

Do you want this to be an XML driven MenuBar?, its more flexible that way.
You can change the Menu Options without having to redesign everytime.

And one more thing what will the target be? a URL, Timeline Frame or loaded
SWF.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:43 pm
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Hi Feldkircher ,

No at this stage I am only using text images (.gifs) as the menu items. Just
aslong as I can replicate a similar smoothness of the animation shown in the
link I provided is all I am after. I'll send you the examples I have created.
Whenever I code my dropmenu I can replicate the flyout ok, but its when the
user mouse their mouse away and the menu is still out I run into trouble.

Whether I need to learn a few more objects I'm just not sure.
Another problem I have to regards to the smoothness of the fly out of the
submenu is that the way I have written it

eg:
onrollover menubtn gotoandplay the fly out animation which will run from frame
1-5 etc

& if you rolloff the menu gotoandplay the closing fly in animation 10-15 etc

But if the user rolls onto another menu option while the fly out animation is
playing between 1-5 the closing animation will obviously play and the animation
becomes looks staggered. Just not sure on how I code that function to make it
play the full 1-5 frame before the closing animation plays.

Thanks again for any help
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:28 pm
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:47 am
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:04 am
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Hi FeldKircher,
I sent you the menu I was working on. Obviosuly its more designed based as
apposed to Script based.
Ideally I would like to be able to setup each submenu (a series of premade
images, sprites) in its own MC like in my example.

I'm just not sure how I can get that submenu to function correctly. What do I
need to do to get that to work correctly?

Your example looks nice a little bit over my head but it will be something
nice to learn bits from.

Thanks again
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:24 pm
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Hi

If you can see what I did, why is yours done in Flash6?, as far as I know you
can view Flash8.fla's in Flash6.

As for your design, it seems you've used nested movieclips, this can be
difficult to maintain due to the multiple locations of Actionscript.

Inside but_slide_menu_w.mc somewhere between you 'over' state and 'out' state
you need to check the position of the Mouse if its over the submenu then it
should hold it open until you rolloff it.

I'll play around and see what I can do
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:26 pm
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hmmm not sure why I've done it in Flash 6. I'm using flash 8. Yeah I guess you
could call me a big user of nested movie clips, probably explains why my
projects tend to become so cluttered and hard to create.
As you can probably tell I'm more on the design side as appossed to
programming side and use tweening and images whenever possible. Just gotta put
more time in on AS and progamming I guess, was even investigating on how I can
do a Microsoft Application Developer Course to help impove my programming.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:24 am
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Let me know iff have it all ready ,i can send you this menu.

http://www.rijbewijsgigant.nl

Send me an email address so I can send it to you.

let me know
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:29 am
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Hi roel that a DHTML menu right?

Another example of what I am trying to achieve is the menu on the front page here at:
http://www.cartier.com/
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:29 pm
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Yes it is, but what you show on cartier I can also mail the script.

Just look at http://www.groupinfinity.nl or check http://rijbewijsgigant.nl
again in two weeks. than we have the change in the menu.

For a quik response send a email

Roel

Nick Diel [nick.diel@]
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:34 pm
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Hi Roel if you have something like that Cartier dropdown menu built in flash I'd be interested in taking a look.

Can you email me at messlah.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com

Any help would be great
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