ActionScript 3.0 :: Creating Efficient Menus ?
Aug 16, 2010
I'm designing the UI for my level editor and I found managing multiple menus and buttons can become complex and annoying to program for every single situation and for every single button. Which as you can imagine it becomes tedious.Imagine you have 2 buttons both of them open drop down menu's when clicked but I only want to have one menu open at any time.To further complicated the situation in one of the drop down menu's there is a button that when clicked it'll open a further sub-menu in place of the previous one.Here is how I've gone about programming such a situation.
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I want to open menu 1:
checks if any menus are open
if so close them and open menu 1...
...and so on for every menu further multiplying the amount of programming every time I add a new menu. I have to go back to the buttons that open all other menus and program for the occurrence that, the new menu may be open.I was thinking some kind of function could handle all the menu's but my brain is to frazzled to think.
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