I have the layout (movie) for a site and I need to create windows that drop down from the menu bar as each button on the menu is pressed and I don't have a clue how to do it. I've figured out that I have to tell the button to goto a frame but I get lost after that.

I've read lot of info about doing stuff in flash but nothing describes how to do what I want it to do.

I haven't used Flash in a very long time, so I have no idea if Flash MX has a better way to do this or not..

Anyways.. I suggest you create a few frames and in each one you put the submenus for a button. Then you link the menu bottons to the correct frame. For example, lets say when button one gets pressed you want 5 submenus to show. So you put those 5 submenus in frame 2 (since frame 1 must be the menu with no submenus). Then when someone clicks on menu1 you do "gotoAndStop(2);". You do the same thing for menu 2 but put its submenus in frame 3 and when someone clicks on menu 2, you will do "gotoAndStop(3);", and so on.. Don't forget to not put any submenus in frame 1 since you most likely don't want submenus to show when the user has not clicked on a menu.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

flash mx comes with a tool that creates flash 'drop-down' boxes which i think is what u wanted.

anyways, if u don't have flash mx, u can go to www.designsbymark.com, he has a tutorial there that will make a drop down menu, but its for 'intermediate' not for newbies so i hope u know something in flash.

btw good luck

pm me if u need any help

I think I have just what you need.. Go to www.guistuff.com they have several flash menu generators which work great and are pretty customizable.. And best of all there FREE!

haha I suck at Flash :D

and yes I have Flash MX. The template I'm trying to do something with is here http://www.pmdawnonline.com/sitetest/ so far all I've managed to do is make the window appear in all frames.
My goal is to not have it appear at first and then when the first button is pushed it displays the window with text and as the second is pushed it clears the text in the window and displays differant text and so on for all 6 buttons

Thats quite a nice template.. Did you make it yourself of get it from somewhere.. ?

nope I didn't make that, I've made a few like it but they never worked right so I gave up and went in search of a working template I could build on.

as you can see my "building on" isn't getting very far :D

Originally posted by Sainthax
haha I suck at Flash :D

and yes I have Flash MX. The template I'm trying to do something with is here http://www.pmdawnonline.com/sitetest/ so far all I've managed to do is make the window appear in all frames.
My goal is to not have it appear at first and then when the first button is pushed it displays the window with text and as the second is pushed it clears the text in the window and displays differant text and so on for all 6 buttons

best chance is use a movie clip for the windows and use actionscript to control it from the different buttons.

Originally posted by Sainthax
nope I didn't make that, I've made a few like it but they never worked right so I gave up and went in search of a working template I could build on.

as you can see my "building on" isn't getting very far :D


If you dont mind me asking where did you purchase or find it?

I have downloaded Flash MX and have been messing around with it I would assume I am at about the same level as you and I need something to work with.. and that there looks like a good example..

Originally posted by OKIHost


If you dont mind me asking where did you purchase or find it?

I have downloaded Flash MX and have been messing around with it I would assume I am at about the same level as you and I need something to work with.. and that there looks like a good example..

I found it on flashkit.com it's about the only good one on the site

direct link http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Interfaces/Sites/ready_to-inspecto-6053/index.shtml

Thanks alot.. I will have to take a look.. Be sure to let us know when the finished product is done.