Re: FLASH: Floating menus example?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 12:04 PM 3/10/00 , you wrote:

>Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media

>

> >This menu could certainly be done in Flash3 using movie clips. If you're

> >handy with action scripting that would probably be an easier route to go.

> >

>

>Marc,  I thought that the way the submenu's resize dynamically as you

>scroll over them had to be an Action script.  They also seem to move in

>response to your cursor [menus float from side to side like they are

>tracking you - which has to be Flash 4 right?].


If you look again, you'll see that the movement is independent of the mouse 

position. So althought it's more easily programmed using Flash4 Action 

Script, it could just be done with tweens in Flash3 MC's with TellTargets 

on mouseover and rollout. Each MC has two views, call them "open" and 

"closed." It tweens from closed to open and back again, with a stop action 

at key frames. TellTarget is used via invisible buttons in each clip, 

telling that clip and other clips to play the various sequences. There'd be 

some device so that the movie clips that are already "closed" stay that way 

unless moused over. All this is Flash3. Flash4 would keep track of MC 

states using variables and, based on those variables, would send them to 

other states. The tweens could be scripted as well, using set position and 

scale and loops. But I can't script it for you :-).




>Do you think it is more than just a rollover effect on submenu buttons?

>Or if so, it looks like a very complex rollover telling the other buttons

>to scale down by percentage [as in a wave... rather than a set

>percentage...]

>

>Any idea how you would code something like that?

>

>  > http://www.deepend.co.uk



Marc Hoffman


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