ActionScript 3.0 :: Dynamic Animated Menu Header
Dec 18, 2006
When someone clicks a menu item, lets use "products" for example, a Products header appears and the content is loaded.In the products area of the site they have a choice of products to choose from. Let's say they choose the Product "Dog Food". After clicking the link for product "Dog Food" the content is loaded, and at the top where the initial "Product" header is i would like a secondary header product "Dog Food" to be dynamically typed.In between the "product" header and the "Dog Food" header i would like to have a arrow shape.Thus the header would look like this after product "a" was clicked:Products > Dog Food.The word "Product" would be a mc, the word "Dog Food" however i would like to be produced via actionscript. There may be a additional link past the "Dog Food" such as "Health Info"
The header would have two functions.. first as a navigation reference, and secondly as a go back buttons. The user would be able to click "Dog Food" when looking at the health info and it would bring him/her back to the "Dog Food" page.Both the "Dog Food" and "Health Info" would have a drop shadow effect.in a cool effect, such as typewriter or something to that idea... i can figure out the effect myself, just thought i would let you know where we are heading with this.Now what i need in a nutshell is a actionscript that does the following:
1. Finds the length of the mc that contains the first header.. in this case it was "products" however there are other ones such as "Locations" which is longer....
2. places the arrow icon about 7 pixels away from the "products" header
3. type out the subsection .. in this case "Dog Food" and apply the drop shadow filter to it.
4. Create the "dog food" header as a button, linking to its content page. Initially this won't do anything but refresh the page, but when they go into the next subsection.."Health Info" it will act as a go back button
5. When "Health Info" Sub Sub Section is pressed find the end of the x axis value if "Dog Food" and about 7 pixels away place a arrow icon.
6. Find the X axis location of the second arrow icon and type out the "health Info" header. Create the new "Health info" button with link to it's content page.
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