Help with IF statement.

[joeldalmas]

Basically i have a menu with a dropdown box and i created a layer ontop of it with a movie clip that holds an area of space where if the mouse is not in that area, i do not want the dropdown menu to appear....

***dropmenu**** is the movie instance name to which holds the animation for the dropdown menu.

dropmenu(2) starts the animation of the mask opening up the dropdown navigation.

dropmenu(11)starts the animation which closes the dropdown section of that button.

dropmenu(1) hides the mask entirley which shows the dropdown nav.

The movie that i have holding this arrow has the following code:
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dropmenu.ifFrameLoaded (2) {
on (rollOut) {dropmenu.gotoAndPlay(11);}
}
else
{dropmenu.gotoAndPlay(1);}
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It is not doing what i hoped, im guessing either im using the ifFrameLoaded wrong or im just completely wrong. Please help,

Thanks,
Joel

[the n00b]

I don't really get your code, but this is how I would do that:

//put this code on the MC that is the drop down menu
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse) {
if (this.hit == 0) {
this.gotoAndPlay(2)
}
this.hit = 1
}else{
if (this.hit == 1) {
this.gotoAndPlay(11)
}
this.hit = 0
}

That should work.

[joeldalmas]

that really didnt work man, im not sure where you were intending i put this code exactly but i tried it in a few different places with no results.

any other ideas?