What are the common ways of creating drop-down menus for Flash with Haxe?
I've used a variety of "drop-down" menus:
drag-and-drop "combo boxes" in C# Forms
<select> in HTML
UIPickers in iOS
Now I'd like to create something similar in Flash. Note I'm not using Flex per requirements that are out my control.
I'm quite new to Flash. So far it looks like I'll extend Sprite and perhaps use some HTML/CSS for styling.
a friend of mine wants me to change up his flash website template a bit. He has a horizontal navigation bar at the top with links but he wants me to change them into drop down menus so he can have additional links, I have the original fla files and everything too.
View 2 RepliesI am having trouble incorporating graphical assets created in Flash with my haXe code.
In the Flash IDE, I've created a symbol with the linkage name "MySprite". I compile this into assets.swf. I know that to use symbols in this .swf from my haXe code, I need to add the following option when using the haxe compiler:
-swf-lib assets.swf
I'd now like to write a class called "MySprite" which is associated with this symbol, like so:
class MySprite extends Sprite {
public function new() {
// ...
}
}
Basically, I'd like to achieve something similar to the technique presented in this tutorial:
package {
import flash.display.*;
[Embed(source="assets.swf", symbol="MySprite")]
[Code]....
It's unclear from the haXe documentation whether this can be done, or what the syntax is for doing it.
Anyways a friend of mine wants me to change up his flash website template a bit. He has a horizontal navigation bar at the top with links but he wants me to change them into drop down menus so he can have additional links, I have the original fla files and everything too.
View 1 Replieshow to set up drop down (or pop up) menus in flash? I've tried several and get stuck at various points.
View 1 RepliesWhen i insert the flash menu it basically dosent fit into the alloted space i gave for my horizontal navigation bar, when inserted it blows apart. the only thing i could think of was resizing the flash document but then i cant see the menu expand it gets cut off,
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How to make drop-up menus in Flash using AS-2?, i am new in actionscript..
So, as normal, the widget draws a menu like this: Module Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3
but I want it to appear like:
Lesson 3 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Module
I want the menu items to spring upwards above the menu rather than downwards below it!
How to make drop-up menus in Flash using AS-2?, i am new in actionscript..
So, as normal, the widget draws a menu like this: Module Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3
but I want it to appear like:
Lesson 3 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Module
Like this - [URL]
I want the menu items to spring upwards above the menu rather than downwards below it!
I followed a tutorial at lynda.com about a popup menu in flash mx.The submenus were surrounded by invisible buttons so that when you rolled over them (i.e. outside of the drop down menus) the sub menus became hidden.The last bit on the tutorial said..... if you have multiple menus this would be slightly different and involves using "with".
It ended there, and that's precisely what I need.. I'd like to make 5 or 6 drop down menus closely spaced and horizontally placed across my movie.. anyone have an .fla with this? or perhaps a tutorial? I've searched everywhere...
My drop menus dropped UNDER an flash image script that is situated after the menus.How to make the menus to drop OVER the flash image script?
View 1 RepliesI am making a website purely on flash (actionscript 2.0), for a school project, and I have set up one frame for each page. I also made a drop down menu, but unfortuantely I can't link them to the actual pages, since the drop down menu is a movie clip, if I use an actionscript such as:[code]it goes to the 3rd frame in the movie clip and not the main scene.
View 3 RepliesI am working on a game in flex, and I am trying to figure out how to create menus in the game. I am was thinking it would be easy just to add and remove a child for the menu, but then it would be a pain to make interactive.I am trying to do both a pop up menu and an always on screen menu, like a bottom menu bar, so if anyone has any ideas please let me know. I am completely new to flash and flex and don't really know where to start past making the actual game.
View 2 Repliesif the mouse is under the button (outside the mask) the button still activatesis there a way I can create a shape &/or script to "mask" the EventListener much like how the graphic is masked?(the space under the buttons will eventually contain random photos)
currently the menu uses this script:addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upyoga);
stop();
var speed:Number=.3;
[code]......
Flash Files/homenavmenucs4.rar(put http: before the link)I'm trying to find the correct place to put my drop down menus inside of. within what symbol do i need to create the menus?
View 1 RepliesI made a drop down menu with sub menus. It is a movie clip. When I drag my movie clip menu to the main timeline I don't know how to make the buttons manipulate the main timeline. Like going to a certain frame. Everytime I put code on the movie clip, it manipulates the movie clip itself. Is there a trick to this?
View 1 RepliesI have designed a horizontal scrolling menu that currently contains buttons that load external swfs when pressed. Works great.What I'd like to do is have the buttons open vertical drop down menus instead of loading external files.
View 0 RepliesI'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.
PHP Code: [code]....
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.
I have started learning about flash about 3 years ago, I had a shot at making a small application for my boss' website and that went down well... but since this first feeling of flash, this technology has evolved rather quickly. I used to write my scripts in AS 2.0, now AS 3.0 has come with a bunch of new stuff like event listeners and such. I have tried to catch up for the past two weeks but I kind of lack some training on all the new stuff added to or changed in AS 3.0.
So to come to the problem, I have tried to make a pretty simple menu from scratch, I wanted it dynamic so I took advantage of reading data in an xml file. I have created buttons but figured that movie clips were actually more flexible so I went down this way and it kind of works except that when i click one of my buttons, the button_down state works once but not twice, it stays as the button_over state even if i click repeatedly. My script is quite ugly as I could not figure out how to loop the creation of my menu buttons from a single set of movie clips (one for the up state, one for the over state and one for the down/clicked state).
I'm trying to create an xml accordion menu that has main menus and a sub menus buttons (movieClips) revealed with a mask. Simple question, How do I stop the mask area which reveals the sub menus catching mouseEvents on the submenus?The main menu button is a movieClip, it has the mask sprite attached to it as a property so it can scale dynamically to reveal the subMenus. They are set as children of the main menu button container. In my code I've set mainMenu.mouseChildern = true. But when the mainMenu is clicked I change mouseEnabeled = false to help prevent the main menu receiving events. This helps on rollOver rollOut events, but when I click or mouseDown on the subMenu the mask catches the event also and activates the main menu again. I've tried the obvious mask.mouseEnabled = false; mask.mouseChildern = false; mask.hitArea = null; and even setting mask.alpha = 0 but this has no effect at all.
I don't understand why the mask has to extend the hitArea property of the mainMenu and why this can't be set to null. It also seems crazy that when mouseChildren = true the parent clip also has to receive notice of the event.
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 RepliesI'm trying to design a child's bracelet game, where they can drag and drop beads onto a string (circle) but I'm having trouble snapping the object onto my ellipse (circle), Currently the ball (bead) is stuck rotating around the ellipse, but I need it and multiples to be dragged from the bottom of the screen and then be able to snap to the ellipse once its closer, basically so that the child can choose a bead and drag it onto a string, to create their very own bracelet,
[Code]...
I'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 am mostly intersted in modyfing the components appearance in Flash (CS4) than pulling an swf file which I could include in swf-lib. Right now I am kind of forced to make it via movie clip export it, and build functionality in Haxe.Which as you imagine is not handy and timeconsuming (especially that fl.controls used to work for me very well, I barely had to modify any mechanics, sometimes was just adding functionality).
View 1 RepliesIt is very difficult to find good resources for Haxe informationI have an FLV movie in the same directory as the SWF I am generating. I cannot get the FLV to play. I can get this working in AS but I need to know what I am doing wrong in my Haxe code.
var mc:MovieClip = Lib._root;
var connection:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection.connect(null);
[code]........
I need to port a C-like enum to Haxe:
enum Items
{
item1,
item2=0x00010000,
item3=0x00010001,
item4,
[Code].....
But Haxe doesn't allow default value it seems. How can I do this? My real enum has hundreds of entries and for those with default values I must preserve the values.
I am having some trouble figuring out how to overload a function in Flash using haXe. I know that Flash does not allow overloads but can accept function parameters without a type declared, but I am unsure as how to replicate this trick in haXe. EDIT: Since this does not appear to be possible, are there any known tricks that can be used to get around this limitation?
View 3 RepliesI have the following code:
package ;
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.Graphics;
[code].....
I might be missing something obvious, but how do I reference a property indirectly? E.g in javascript it would be: if(propName in obj) return obj[propName];
How to say the same in haxe? The object in question is Dynamic<String>, flash.display.LoaderInfo.parameters to be specific.
I'm trying to build a simple flash swf with haxe that shows the output of my webcam. I want to swf to be embeddable and the size to be determined in the html. So my html looks like:
<html>
<head><title>Web cam</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#dddddd">
[Code]....
This creates the swf file that shows the webcam output but with some big white bands on the right and bottom. I want to make the webcam image to fill all the flash object size.
I went through many links like this,this and this, but not getting good direction to move with. I need to implement some flash content in my iPhone app. good tutorials to move on with the conversion process.
Suppose I am having a flash air iOS app and I need to convert the whole app in objective c for say adding some features like APNS then I have to do some needful. I want to convert the air iOS based app in objective c for same thing and hence need a tool like Haxe.