help with a navigation menu

Okay, so I'm very new to Koolmoves and flash. I want to create a navigation menu for the top of a website, with text buttons for each page. I know how to make buttons do stuff when people mouse-over, but when somebody clicks on a button I want the text to slide down into a sort of "header" position at the page. Like if you clicked on "news" it would load the news page and the "news" text would slide down from the nav bar and be just above the text for the news page. I also want to have a photo slideshow running in the background of the nav menu.

Assuming this is all possible, can anybody offer some tips on how I might do it, keeping in mind my relative inexperience?

Advice is MUCH appreciated! Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by kid mcr

Okay, so I'm very new to Koolmoves and flash. I want to create a navigation menu for the top of a website, with text buttons for each page. I know how to make buttons do stuff when people mouse-over, but when somebody clicks on a button I want the text to slide down into a sort of "header" position at the page. Like if you clicked on "news" it would load the news page and the "news" text would slide down from the nav bar and be just above the text for the news page. I also want to have a photo slideshow running in the background of the nav menu.

Assuming this is all possible, can anybody offer some tips on how I might do it, keeping in mind my relative inexperience?

Advice is MUCH appreciated! Thanks in advance.

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This can be done but can you please post a link of an example of something that you actually want?

also look in koolexchange for "drop-down" menu.

Kind of like http://www.hawthornetheatre.com/ there but, instead of just lighting up the links would slide down a little bit to underneath where the home link is if you clicked on them.

so make a MC called 'menu' for example. Make there 3 frames:
in all add black text
in second change text color to red for examle.

then make a transparent rectriangle over the whole text in frame 1, make it a button and add action "play movie" and _root.top.gotoAndStop('name_of_frame'); on roll over. also add stop movie action in frame (not button, just press f8)

then make another transparent rectriangle over the whole text in frame 2, make it a button and add action "stop movie" on roll over. also add goto... action.

in frame 3, add gotoAndStop('1'); and thats all... but what about 'top' MC? so make it :) add a frame with some picture and call it 'name_of_frame' (as above). now, preview ur work and enfjoy results.

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Originally Posted by kid mcr

Kind of like http://www.hawthornetheatre.com/ there but, instead of just lighting up the links would slide down a little bit to underneath where the home link is if you clicked on them.

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Yes this could be done quite easily in koolmoves. If you want help, I would determine the size of the movie that you want, get your pics together and use the loadmovie function.

There are two ways to go with this, Actionscript or Frame animation.

I'm uploaded an example called menu1 to the exchange right now. http://koolexchange.com

this example uses frames to do what you want. It also loads movies into a child movie for each button

thanks so much for all the replies, very helpful!!!