Question

[jamiestevens]

This may be a stupid question and I think I'm moderately good at Flash but I'm cluelss when it comes to complex things like the following.

I would like to the following:
That when you click on a button, another button appears, like it is shown on www.shania-twain.com

Does anyone know how to do this? I've searched the net for fla source files or tutorials for about two hours now but cannot find anything.

Thanks for your help.

-jamie

[mraspiller]

That is done with MCs...

create a button & then create a MC with the other buttons in it...

put the following script on the 1st button:

on(rollOver) {
attachMovie("MCname","MCname",1);
}

on(rollOut){
unloadMovie("MCname");
}

make sure that when you create the MC, you check "Export for ActionScript"...

then, in the MC, align the buttons to where you want them to appear on the main stage...

[jamiestevens]

Thanks I will try that right away.
But what is a MC??

-jamie

[pellepiano]

The first button tells a movieclip ( containing more buttons ) to start playing. The first frame of the movieclip is empty with a stop action so it does not show until it is told to play.
You tell a movieclip to start playing with...

on(release){
buttonMC.play();
}

[jamiestevens]

Originally posted by jamiestevens
Thanks I will try that right away.
But what is a MC??
-jamie

Aah, sorry. MC stands for MovieClip. I'm such an idiot. Sorry

[pellepiano]

Ooops, didnt see your post mraspiller, sorry.

[gSOLO_01]

pellepiano method is probably more correct. the rollover/out method would involve using invisible buttons and stuff and things could get complicated...

[jamiestevens]

I tried what mraspiller suggested.
And when I enter the first button, the movie clip DOES show up. However when I leave the button, the movie clip disappears right away, so I have no chance to click on the buttons in the movie clip.

Any idea? Like I said, it should be like on www.shania-twain.com

Thanks a lot
-jamie

[jamiestevens]

Doesn't anyone have a clue? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[pellepiano]

Refferring to my earlier post.
If you want the new buttons to stay put ( so you can choose them ), just add a stop action in the movieclip.
Then you can close it with rollOvers on other buttons.

[jamiestevens]

I have a stop action in my movie clip. The movieclip buttons disappear anyway when I leave the original button (that calls the movie clip).

I don't quite understand it.
Do you mean the movieclip buttons only disappear when clicking on another button (that tells them to unload)??

I'm afraid I'm clueless here

[pellepiano]

You should have one stop action at frame one and one stop action when the buttons are visible.That way they cant disappear unless you click the button again ( which just would make the buttons visible again).

Any other button would have an action that tells the movieclip to go to frame 1 and stop (not visible).

// For instance
on(rollOver){
buttonMC.gotoAndStop(1);
}

[jamiestevens]

But that would mean that the movieclip buttons would be visible until I click on another button. But I actually want them to disappear when I leave either the original button (that calls the movieclip buttons) or when I leave the movieclip buttons.

Or am I mistaken about this?

Does anyone have a FLA file for this or know where a tutorial for this is offered??

Thanks for ANY help.

-jamie

[oldnewbie]

Would be easier for someone here to correct your .fla if you attached it.

[jamiestevens]

Oakie, this hasn't correct graphics yet but once I know how it works I can add it to my movie.
And thanks for any help.
Thank you
-jamie

[oldnewbie]

Get to work... Pellepiano!

[pellepiano]

Im working...... =)

Heres one solution. It gets a little more complicated when you want to close on RollOver.

[SwirlyKing]

Here, I've made one that's pretty simple conceptually and works really well.

[jamiestevens]

Thanks a million to both of you!!!
It's working. Yipee!!!

-jamie

[jamiestevens]

I think there still is a slight problem. I worked with the button supplied by SwirlyKing.

Everything works okay so far. The only problem is that the buttons (of the submenue) remain visible when I click somewhere else in the stage. But the submenue buttons should disappear when I remove my mouse from the submenue buttons or from the main button (where the submenue belongs to).

I hope that was clear and it'd be great if someone could give me a tip. Somehow I need sort of an action that lets the movie clip skip to picture #1 when the mouse leaves the movieclip.



Thanks for your help
-jamie