FLASH: Dynamically loading a dropdown menu

[DeJarnett, Gary]

I have a Flash movie that interacts with a database and am able to load data

from my database to variables in my movie (using queries in an ASP page)

without a problem.  I've followed some of the dropdown menu examples to

create a dropdown menu movie that plays on the rollover event of a menu

selector sitting at the top of the screen.  This movie "drops down" several

buttons, each containing one text field that I hope to fill dynamically from

my database.  


My end goal is to have a list of employees drop down when the mouse moves

over the "Employee" selector sitting at the top of the screen.  From this

list, I want the user to be able to click on the employee (within our

department) whose records the user wants to work with.  That mouse click

will set up my "current" employee, and the other dropdown menus (project

number, etc...) should only be filled with data pertaining to that employee.


The problem is that the variables holding the employee names within the menu

movie are only created at the time the rollover event is fired.  I'm trying

to figure out when is the best time, and what is the best way to load these

variables with the data from my ASP page.  I can preload an array of

variables holding this data as part of my preload process.  When I try to

move the data from these preloaded variables to the variables in the menu

movie, I haven't been successful.  Maybe my problem has to do with the

syntax of moving a variable from the main movie to a variable used in the

tell target.


I'm new to Flash, so if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I would be glad

to hear them, especially if you've already had experience in this sort of

work.


Thanks,


Gary DeJarnett (

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