I am using Flash 8 by the way. Anyways what I am doing is making a menu with different options. I need the user to click on various buttons from the menu and then after those buttons are clicked, an animation needs to play and then return to the original menu. I have got the mouse to follow my custom cursor and made the general outline of the menu, but no buttons so far.
View 3 RepliesI would like to create an Options Menu in my Flash AIR application for Android. I've figured out already, that this ActionScript code could be used for capturing the hardware Menu button press event:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, _onKeyDown);
function onKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.MENU) {
event.preventDefault();
trace("Menu Pressed");
}}
But how do you create the actual menu? If you can't do it with AIR, then has anybody tried to recreate/mimic it manually already and could you please share the properties (colors, transparency, any gradients?) and transitions (sliding in/out) you've used? I've found some guidelines already, but any Flash-specific tips/properties (like which easing to use for sliding transitions?).
im trying to create a button, in which when highlighted should bring up options relating to that specific scene. I cannot seem to get it working, because whenever I highlight the options movie clip, it play the animation which hold the buttons, but as soon as my mouse moves over to click the buttons it disappear.I have attached an example .fla file.
P.S. If what i said above is confusing, then basically my problem is that when i select the options movie clip, it brings up another box, with the options. But i cannot move my mouse into the box with the options because it disappears when my mouse enters the box area.
im trying to create a button, in which when highlighted should bring up options relating to that specific scene. I cannot seem to get it working, because whenever I highlight the options movie clip, it play the animation which hold the buttons, but as soon as my mouse moves over to click the buttons it disappear.
P.S. If what i said above is confusing, then basically my problem is that when i select the options movie clip, it brings up another box, with the options. But i cannot move my mouse into the box with the options because it disappears when my mouse enters the box area.
I'm having some trouble with drop down menus. I've got them set up with onrollover to display the menu options and use both rollout & dragout to deactivate (which prevents the menu from sticking by accidentally "dragging" off the area).The menu displays just fine, and I want the background of the options to highlight (by switching color) when the mouse moves over it or presses on it. Unfortunately, nothing happens.I used this as my base color switch
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function paint(mc, brush){ var fincolor = brush;myColor = new Color(mc);myColor.setRGB(fincolor);}[code]..........
I have a bunch of menus that will over lap each other at different times, and they have buttons in them you can click for commands. But when I have menu B on top of menu A, like cards, I don't want the onPress commands used in menu B reacting with buttons on the menu A beneath. Normally I would just move the menus, but in this case, they need to be laid out like cards.
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how to add addevents to the menus in the popupButton.
set the brightness of the WHOLE MOVIE with the use of a + and - button in an options menu.. if so how?
View 14 RepliesIs there possibility to mark options in right click context menu ?
For example, if you right click on Windows bar, Lock the Taskbar is checked (marked).
function createDatagrid():
//datagrid
var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider();
//addin the entries
[Code]....
The above are my doubts for sorting a datagrid and a filter function for datagrid.
where I can get or make a component where menu options are zoomed when rolled over, similar to the dock in Mac OS X?
View 2 RepliesI'm developing a flex application and I want to add it a context menu. I got it with this
code:
var myMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
myMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
[code]......
Is it possible to have a context menu on a multiple frame movie with all the options except next, prev and play..?I want to have zoom in/out but not next/prev..
View 3 RepliesIm building a program that queries a database for options and displays the options in a number of comboBoxes. The comboBoxes are dynamically built and loaded via code and added to the stage. I would like to build the comboBoxes into a single movie clip (maybe not the correct wording) so I can use options like tweening and such to make it look better. The code is below.
package classFiles
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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I am looking at creating a menu with three movieclip buttons on a main menu. I want to keep these buttons on the top of the screen at all times. I am opening different swf's and I want to make sure that the buttons are still showing. I know there is something with changing or swapping the depth of the movie clip when it loads the new swf's in, but I have not found anything that is seeming to work.
View 4 Repliesmy boss is requesting me to make a similar menu like this site :look on the left side, when you click it it goes down and the other items just close and what my boss wants is that when you click something the link changes colors so it will be determined that your on that page
View 10 RepliesI'm having a problem creating an xml menu for a personal flash site. The site that has a blog in the background. The blog updates from an xml document. But I want to make menu buttons out of words from the xml. I'd like to assign buttons to 4 random words from the xml (which would change each time I updated the xml). The catch is, I would only like to pick words that fall on the left side of the page (say between x = 55 to 250). The buttons would open an overlay on the same page. So 4 buttons on the left, with overlay to the right. Here is the current XML loading code in actionscript:
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I am an intermediate flash user and need to create navigation for my flash project. Basically what I have is one swf with several scenes and I need a small pop up menu with clickable buttons to jump to different scenes. I know scenes are not generally recommended, but I cannot load separate swfs due to technological constraints at my company. The way my project is set up is like one continuous movie that plays from start to finish. I don't need a player controls or anything. I have divided it into scenes to make it easier to work on the fla.
It starts and plays through to the end, one scene after the next. What I want is a small menu button at the bottom that when clicked pops open a list of buttons that can be clicked to jump to and play a different scene. It never stops or anything, just jumps to and plays the chosen scene. I have created a movieclip with a menu button and the pop up list with buttons. I can get the list to open and close, but it won't jump to a different scene. Is this because it is in a movieclip?
I'm trying to create a simple drop down menu in as3. My problem is the sub menu's buttons of the main buttons cannot be listened by the mouse event. I have no idea why it couldn't work, here I attached the source.
View 6 RepliesGood day to everyone. I'm here today to seek help about Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0. The story starts when one day, my boss asked me to make a flash presentation about their upcoming user training for a newly developed software. I was enthusiastic and excited about it because it's been a long time that I did not use Flash (note that I don't have any experience in ActionScript 3.0). At first, everything was a bit rough as I need to recall how to properly use the frames to create a successful animation. As I was about to finish the project, my boss approached me again and asked if I could insert a menu page in front so that the users won't have to replay the whole thing again just to look for a little something on that part of the movie. So yea, at first I was abit hesitant to accept. I said that it will work with Powerpoint. But she's a total pusher and I was forced to say yes. Now I'm having this problem about how to make a flash button load a swf movie.I've tried searching all over the net for tutorials but most of the times the "getUrl" and other stuff are said to be outdated.
View 1 RepliesI've Googled & Binged to no avail. I'm trying to create a dynamic menu in Flash using PHP & MySQL and bring it into Flash using AS3 DataProvider. My menu works fine with a local Array, but I seem to have an issue with the Type being a String and not an Array, but how do I set it up properly so the types are correct? So I started with a typical, non-dynamic array and it works to create my menu:
[flash=]var items1:Array = [
{myClass:"SCI101", question:"What color is the sky?"},
{myClass:"MATH110", question:"What is the square root of 81?"},
{myClass:"SCI101", question:"How fast is the turtle?"},
{myClass:"SCI101", question:"How far is the Earth from Mars?"},
{myClass:"xXxXxXx", question:"xXxXxXx"},
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make a similar menu like this site: [URL] look on the left side, when you click it it goes down and the other items just close and what my boss wants is that when you click something the link changes colors so it will be determined that your on that page my menu consists of a main menu then a sub menu then a sub sub menu
View 10 RepliesI'm creating a drop down menu and when I addEventListeners to check the clicks on the invisible buttons on frame 19 of the "menu" movieclip, it gives me an error. T really hate doing rollover with actionscripts. The download link for the fla can be found in below. Sorry for posting an external download link as the file is 7mb+! [URL]
View 2 RepliesI'm very new to Flash CS3 and have set myself the task of creating a flash based website, with the same functionality as [URL] creating the drop down menu - I believe I should be exploring rollovers/rollouts and also applying easing effects, however I have no idea what kind of actionscript to use.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to create a pull down menu. Not one that drops down when rolled over but one that drops down when clicked and stays down until an item is selected. Once an item is selected or the menu is clicked out of it retracks again.
My strategy is to create a movie clip for the initial menu that when clicked jumps to another movie clip where ther menu is extracted and houses movie clip buttons that hightlight when rolled over and when clicked redirect to another movie clip related to the button that was selected.
is this the proper way to do this? And second: can you offer some direction for the action script?
Basically, I have a navigation bar with several buttons. When a button is pressed, a new sub navigation should be displayed in a different location. So on my main nav, I have mouse events, and on the click event, each button points to an xml file
function mouseClickEvent3(eve:MouseEvent):void
{
setLoader("XML/path.xml");
}
[code]....
Now all the menus get created no problem. The problem is this. One main button produces a sub menu with six buttons, which are displayed no problem. I then click on another main button which has 3 sub buttons. These 3 buttons replace the 3 buttons that the first button displayed, but the last three are not removed. Sometimes, only two buttons seem to get replaced.
What I really need to do is this. Before any buttons are created, I need to somehow remove any buttons which currently exist. I have tried things like this before the for each loop
for (var y:Number=0; y<i; y++){
removeChild(menuItem);
}
Nothing seems to work though.
Its not exactly an xml menu, but I have imported the xml attributes and have aligned them and want them to act as movieclip
Code:
var myXML:XML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite=true;
myXML.load("words.xml");
[code]...
The problem with this code is that I click on any of the text links (attributes from xml) , only the last text changes its color. I want it to function in a way, that when I click on a link.. that should change the colour and not the last one... I know why its working that way but can't figure a way out to correct the code. Here is the xml content.
Code:
<content>
<section name="about us" />
<section name="about you" />
<section name="about them" />
</content>
Whether I click on about us or about you or about them,in all cases about them changes its color from 0x00cc00 to 0x00ccc0
i want to add new Menu in flash IDE and i want to add inside the adobe flash menu. How i can add new menu in menubar and new menu item inside the help menu. is it possible to do this things if yes then which language i have to use for this. what is way to start development and what is the .MXP file and how to create this .MXP file.
View 1 RepliesI have created a rotating menu using AS3 from a tutorial here; [URL]I have it working now but I am trying to change the rotation axis, so the circle responds to the mouse vertically(Up &down) as at the moment it is hoizontally(left & right)
View 1 RepliesI buy a template from internet and want to edit it according to my requirements but I am facing a serious problem that is I need to add some extra menus I have only one idea that I copy existing menus frames and paste it in to new layers and than remove their previous names and links. But when I change the name it also change the previous menu name. I can't understand what I do? I try some other techniques but there is no solution till. Code is action script 2.0 and tool I am using Flash cs4 Professional.
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