RE: FLASH: drop down menus

[Verhaegen Tom]

Hi,


try using variables in your tell target,


imagine

You create your 2 scripts, One for to Open the DropDown and one to close the

DropDown.

On each rollover you do first a Close and then a DropDown. With the call you

als send 1 Unique Variable ex:"MovieToOpen=1" depending on the movie you are

in (if you are in the movie1 the value is "1"), then in the close scripts

you would have something like this


Tell Target ("movie"&MovieToClose)

	go to and Stop (1)--or wathever it has to do

end Tell Target


Afther the Close Call you do the DropDownCall and it would look like this


Tell Target ("movie"&MovieToOpen)

	go to and play (2)--or wathever it has to do

end Tell Target


Ather the DropDownCall you set the variable MovieToClose=to the appropriate

Value (if you are in the movie1 the value is "1")



When you start your piece and you have your first rollover you have to check

wether the MovieToClose has a value, if it is empty you don't have to call

the Close function.


Tom Verhaegen

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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:15 AM

To: flash

Subject: FLASH: drop down menus



the question (im sure its been asked before)

the situation

5 icons each a mouse roll over

as an icon is rolled over a small drop down menu apears

i will do this with "telll target"

but i would like the menu to stay down (ill add a stop action)

then as the next icon is moused over

the previous drop menu dissapears

and the new one apppears

i would do this by

sending tell target to" park" the other menus

and play the current selection

is this the best way?it does work

but is there a command to stop all other tell targets in one command

rather than list each mc seperately?

ie

on mouse over

tell target movie1

go to and play

tell target movie2

go to and stop park

tell target movie3

go to and stop park

etc

thanks in advance

peter





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