RE: FLASH: Grow Down Menu as on MM site = HOW ??

[Rigdon, Matthew]

I did notice that if you expand all of the carets, the bottom menu

selections fall off.  A suggestion I might make when creating your own is to

collapse a menu group when a new group is expanded.

You can also do something very similar to this using Javascript.  In fact, I

might have replaced this menu with a Javascript one unless you want to use

more animation features (such as having the expanding items grow out of the

menu header)(I hope my description makes sense).  My personal opinion is

that this particular menu doesn't really use enough Flash features to

justify forcing people to download the plugin.  Granted, this is

Macromedia's site and they are showcasing their own technologies.  This

particular menu design could be spruced up a bit with little or no increase

in file size and provide you with a unique menu system that can't be

duplicated by any other tool.  


As far as tutorials, check at www.flashkit.com.  I just went there and typed

in menu in the search tool for the tutorials and it provided links to Flash

4 and 5 examples of menu systems.


> > 

> I'm trying to create a menu system similar to that on MM's site  - see

> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/

> 

> Anyone have any ideas of how to do this ?? Any samples/ tutorials ??

> 


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