RE: FLASH: Is this possible? (html style Menu system)

[Curtis Bay]

We did something like that here recently, Wayne. I can't show you a

sample because of an NDA but it allowed you to have over 40 combinations

of selections that you could change dynamically. Your scenario has many

more combinations but is simpler to implement because you don't have to

dynamically update the main content. 


The trick is to create controller movie clips for each of your selectors

set up with key frames for each selection item. Each time someone

selects a menu item, it fires a command to its selector movie clip,

positioning it in the appropriate key frame. When you finally hit the

"Go to view" button, it will fire a "Go to Next Frame" command to one

selector controller, which in turn sends a command to the next selector

controller, and on down the line. I don't have time to explain it well

now, but there are two tricks you have to use:


1) TT a particular movie clip residing in a Master controller with a

certain Instance. In reality, you will have multiple MCs with the same

instance name, but the TT reaches the "visible" MC and it in turn fires

off the final jump. You can also create labels within different movie

clips with identical names. The actions in the key frame will be

different, but the label and the instance name can be the same. Thus a

single TT to a MC called "Master" with a label called "start" could

actually have dozens of possible responses. Make sense?


2) Create "branching" by nesting MCs inside of MCs with on and off

states. Draw a flow chart of your possible combinations and simplify it

as much as you can based on the logic of the selections. Do all your

work on paper first, sketching movie clip diagrams with consistent

labeling and instance names. The implementation goes quickly, and the

bug fixing takes forever.


Hope that puts you on the right path


Curtis



-----Original Message-----

From: Wayne Townsend [

waynettopher [dot] net (mailto:waynettopher [dot] net)

]

Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 1:07 PM

To:

flashershocker [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: Is this possible? (html style Menu system)



>>Is it possible to make a menu system like this work?

>>

>>http://www.webstaffing.net/menutest


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