trouble with drop down menu

[trancec]

Anyone help?

My drop down menu works fine except when you roll over two buttons or more quickly. Then two or more menus drop down and stay there?

Any ideas as how to prevent this?

Thanks


www.signandlight.com

[piny]

i need to see the fla in order to understand the problem,

but for a quick way try to disable the other buttons
when you roll over on a button, and enable them when you
RollOut from it.

for example if i have 2 buttons, one i call but1, and the second but2 then
i rollover but 1 then i'll put the next syntax:

on(RollOver){but2.Enabled=false;}
on(RollOut){but2.Enabled=true;}

hope you understand,
regards
piny.

[trancec]

Thanks...Imnot sure if that would work with the code I used. here is a link to the .fla

www.signandlight.com/menu/menu2.fla

Thanks for your help

Brian

[oldnewbie]

Just do it according to this example...

[trancec]

thanks!

[trancec]

Thanks for that code...however im having problems with it. I would like it to disapear on the click of the buttons? And the main button at the top which is text based when put inside the MC its hit state seems to not be working. IE the menu will not roll down unless its on the text!.

I really like the way you have done the menu. It saves a lot of messing about with code compared to how I have done mine.

However I was wondering if there is any code I can add to mine to make it work right? Or fix the above?

I just want to get this job finished!!!

Thanks again I really appreciate yout time

[oldnewbie]

Just draw a rectangular shape in the hit state, covering the whole area of your text, and that will become the new hit area.

As for it disappearing on a click of the buttons, give the instance name of menu to the menu movie clip, and on your buttons' scripts, add the following along with your other actions...

on (release) {
_root.menu.gotoAndStop(1);
// other actions
}

[trancec]

Thanks...

Ive put the button inside the MC where as before it was outside and controlled the MC from there. However when I put it inside with the new code it works.. However the hit state that activates the new code is much more sensitive to the text. Ihave redrawn it but its still sensitive?

[oldnewbie]

Attach your .fla!

[trancec]

here it is as you can see the hit state still works for the button but it is really sensitive to the actual dropdown!

[trancec]

Thanks for your help once again..I got it working. It seems that a hit state within a button doesn't act as ahit state for the whole movie clip. I created another "hit state",on the bottomlayer of the mc. I then removed the button from inside the MC and turned the aplha on the MC hit state to zero. This means I can put it over the original button that tweens in on the menu.

However I still haven't got the menu to disapear when the button inside the dropdown are clicked? I tried doing a _root.menu2.gotoAndStop(1)but it didn't work?

I'll play around with it for a while..

Many thanks

[Fite_CLUB]

that working all depends on if menu2 is an instace name for a menu u should know that though,but

on (release) {
_root.menu.gotoAndStop(1);
// other actions
} 

will work.of course as oldnewbie said menu is an instace name af on of ur menu button.....

i got a question for u.ur submenu suttons are inside the main menu button rite so here so like this

_root.menu.submenu

cuz if so i belive u can also us

on (release) {
_parent.gotoAndStop(1);
// other actions
} 

but i may be rong i dont know

[trancec]

this is getting confusing now!

Some of the buttons are working. And yes the instance name is menu2. Under the signage projects craggs works. It disappears when you click on the button as it loads the swf. It had the code as above attached to it On(release)_root.menu2.gotoAndStop(1).

However Paramount oxford is also working and can't see any added code on it?

Star has the code but doesn't work so does EDC?

Whats going on here ?

link to fla

www.signandlight.com/menu/menu3.fla

Also have a problem with director mc which is a sub menu of management team in under "The company" button. the menu disappears leaving the submenu on its own.......:-(

[trancec]

Thanks everybody Ive solved the problem!!!

[Fite_CLUB]

np

[oldnewbie]

Good work Fite_CLUB, he couldn't done it without you!

[trancec]

Yes thanks everybody for your help I have learned a lot from this thread and your experience and couldn'thave done it without your help.

I also had a problem with the the tweening of the drop down menu. It had two keyframes I was attaching the code to the wrong key frame ......DOH!

[Fite_CLUB]

im sure i helped him i did like .09% oh the help hah
the important thing is it worked