Flash Menu

[weden]

I have a customer that wants a menu system like this: http://centralpacifichomeloans.com/company/

Can this be accomplished with KM?

Thanks,

Weston

[Fingermonkey]

The entire menu can be replicated in Kool Moves. The moving arrow on the left side will require some actionscripting, the rest of the menu can be done using all of Kool Moves standard features.

[weden]

Thanks Fingermonkey. Now, where do I learn the action scripting necessary to do a menu like this?

[johnie]

With the exception of the arrow you really don't need any actionscript at all. ALl you really need is to draw your button over states so that they light up. Its pretty simple actually. Just make your buttons, click your shapes as buttons, choose the over state button, draw it so it is a shade darker and you are in bussiness. You may have to use the MC feature inside the button. I know I did something like this before but the arrow moved along the bottom of the screen.

The AS here is for the arrow is pretty simple. You will adjust the _y property of the clip depending on where the mouse is. ABout 9-10 months ago I posted an example on this very board. You can dig it up or I can dig through the convulted mess that was the hard drive from my old computer to try to find it (No Gurantees as that HD is pretty fried).

[necromanthus]

... bad place for posting !
sorry

[weden]

Thanks Johnie...that would be great. I will also try to find the post you mentioned.

[johnie]

OK.

I have two examples of this. I have attached them to this post I think...

[gusmus]

If you want to replicate the menu it's fairly easy,,, but if you want to replicate the menu plus the photo actions then start looking at a frame based menu... IE "Home"<goto frame 3 and stop> etc... those photos are going to wipe out your spare kilobytes unless the menu is a loaded movie. Cheers

[tmoore935]

If you are interested

http://home.att.net/~diversioncentral/menu/smenu.html

I used vectors for the jpg's. It is simple to change to jpgs. It also uses the script johnie posted.

[johnie]

I forgot who I whipped that up for.

Most of the examples that I have I made for other peoples.

[tmoore935]

I only posted to weden. This is my simple answer to his question. It is from Johnie's examples and my own version or intovation.

After all, every thing I know about actionscript comes from Johnie...I would be a fool to compete with him.

I am glad that johnie is back.:)

[johnie]

Someone asked me to build that do-hickey. I couldn't remember who I did it for now, it was so long ago. I built Frank a few do-hickeys and I even work with Hilary on some.

As for being some sort of Actionscript Guru... Thank's for the compliment but :D , I mostly just slop the code until it works. I'm sure there are better ways to go about half of what I build and do with actionscript. Now Necromanthus is very very good with writting code.

[weden]

Thanks everybody!

tmoore935, do you have the .fun file for the menu you posted?

[tmoore935]

Originally posted by weden
Thanks everybody!

tmoore935, do you have the .fun file for the menu you posted?

I can post it in 8 hours after I get home from work.

[tmoore935]

Originally posted by weden
Thanks everybody!

tmoore935, do you have the .fun file for the menu you posted?

This is the fun file of the menu. Files 1-6 are simply were the jpg's would go. This is how I do everything for my sites. Hope this helps. Let me know.:)

[tmoore935]

And here is the zip file.:rolleyes:

[weden]

Thanks tmoore.

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I will soon. I appreciate it!

Weston

[weden]

tmoore,

I've been looking at the files you posted and I'm confused about how to add photos to the menu system that appear when the mouse is rolled over the menu items.

Thanks,

Weston

[tmoore935]

The pics are with the fun files 1-6. I used vectors or silly shapes to "imitate" the jpg. I did this because I would have had to assemble a bunch of pics, uploaded them, zip them etc.

What I always do is use the lodmovienum command in a way as to load the pic to a level. In this example I used the same level so as to overwrite the last level.

Let me redo the fun files.;)

[weden]

Thanks tmoore. I guess the where I'm getting the most confused is how the menu works (movie clips) and how to adjust or change the actionscript. I'm wanting to learn from this menu so I can create my own as well.

[tmoore935]

http://home.att.net/~diversioncentral/menu/smenu2.html

This is a newer explanation. You have the smenu2.html and smenu2.swf. The smenu.swf calls the jpgs when you rollover the buttons. So look at the actionscript in the buttons. These buttons are somewhat hidden under the mc's. Click the mc button twice to get properties and then hit frames. Under behaviour click actions. Then you will see the button. There are two actions.

THIS IS HOW TO DISPLAY THE TEXT.........................................
This tells the mouse to display the text for each button:

on(rollover)
{
_root.mousey=this._y;
_root.mytxt="This button 1. It calls 1.swf";
}

THIS IS HOW TO DISPLAY THE PICS.......................................
Load level 1.swf tells the button to load the swf. The swf itself has the jpg in it.


AS FOR THE 1.swf-6.swf???
Open up the 1.swf
There is only one script

this._x = 300;
this._y = 200;

this tells the smenu2 were to load the swf in reference to the smenu2.


As a note:
You could use six frames to load the jps and you would never see a delay in the the appearance of the pic. But that would take longer for the the menu to load. Hmmmmmmmmmm???
Since I was really drunk at the time when I wrote this it may sound strange but this is all there is to it. Look at my site which is several megs. But I use this modular form and it loads fairly fast.

As always anyone can suggest a better way.

[tmoore935]

Originally posted by weden
Thanks tmoore. I guess the where I'm getting the most confused is how the menu works (movie clips) and how to adjust or change the actionscript. I'm wanting to learn from this menu so I can create my own as well.

you should find an attachment here: