Dynamic Menu Bar, spacing between tabs, Need Help!

Hello dear Flash community,

I developed a dynamic menu bar in Flash that loads the text from an Array and in order to the number of tiles it duplicates the tabs using “duplicateMovieClip” and each tab automatically resize to the width of the title. Till here everything works fine.

“YOU CAN SEE AND DOWNLOAD THE EXAMPLE HERE”

The problem starts when Flash tries to sort the tabs dynamically whit the same offset space in between them… I think that the code should be correct and I don’t understand why the distance ends up so messy!

I’m better in designing that coding and I lost a lot of hours trying to find out where the problem is! Please help me out on this, I’M STUCK

“YOU CAN SEE AND DOWNLOAD THE EXAMPLE HERE”

Thanks for your help. (Of course you can use the example for your own interests)

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Please, please, please, help me out on this...

Please, don't leave me in darkness...

same problem here....

did search and found this thread... didn't open a new one cause getting any answers is hard...

any suggestions?

symbolica,
The older links didn't work. Can you most an example or sample of what you are specifically trying to do? (If you post files, I only have MX2004 and can't open anything newer.)

Hi dawsonk,

first of all thank you for replying fast(as always =))

actually no need for files cause i'll also put the code here...

i have links from XML file like this,

TEAM CORPORATE PRESSKIT

let's say,
TEAM = 12 px wide,
CORPORATE = 24 px wide,
PRESSKIT = 20 px wide,

all of them are placed into textboxes that are placed inside a movieClip which is duplicated in numbers of the links with a for loop...

the problem is... if there is a constant width for each text link placed inside duplicated clips, it would be easy like,

spacer*i,

where spacer = text width(for a constant value),

but since as you see the text links varies in width, i can't find a way to place(_x) them properly without overlapping or having meaningless and different gaps between 'em...

i also used autoSize = true, wordWrap = false properties for the textField... but no luck... also tried textWidth...

to sum it up, how can i pass the width value of the textField to its container movieclip?? and how can i use this data effectively?

I hope it's clear because I have CS3 and no files will be available for you as you mentioned too...

and here is the piece of code... that duplicates the link container mc's... as you can see the commented lines, i tried different ways without luck...

PHP Code:

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for (var sl = 0; sl<sublinks.length; sl++){
        
            
            sLinkHolder = sublinkBox.duplicateMovieClip("sb"+sl, sl);
            
            sLinkHolder.sublink.wordWrap = false;
            sLinkHolder.sublink.multiline = false;
            sLinkHolder.sublink.autoSize = "left";
            
            sLinkHolder._x = (sLinkHolder._width+10)*sl;
            //names = sLinkHolder._name;
            trace(sLinkHolder._width);
            
            //setProperty(sLinkHolder, _width, sLinkHolder.sublink._width);
            
            //sLinkHolder._width = sLinkHolder.sublink.textWidth;
            //sLinkHolder._x = sLinkHolder._width * sl;
            
            //trace(sublinks[sl].firstChild.nodeValue);
            sLinkHolder.sublink.htmlText = sublinks[sl].firstChild.nodeValue;
                    
            
    } 


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http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...mic+text+width

just found another similar thread but without the exact or right answer...

btw...

assigning text width to its container mc is possible and ok i think... the problem is how can i place those mcs(duplicated) end to end?

Code:

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baseX = sublinkBox._x;
//
for (var sl = 0; sl < sublinks.length; sl++) {
        sLinkHolder = sublinkBox.duplicateMovieClip("sb" + sl, sl);
        sLinkHolder.sublink.wordWrap = false;
        sLinkHolder.sublink.multiline = false;
        sLinkHolder.sublink.autoSize = "left";
        sLinkHolder.sublink.htmlText = sublinks[sl].firstChild.nodeValue;
        sLinkHolder._x = baseX;
        baseX += (sLinkHolder._width + 10);
}

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arrrgggghhhhhh!!!! damn me.

thanks a lot... really...

sometimes ppl get stuck in the same circle for hours without seeing the answer nearby...

that was a quick and successful way and worked perfectly... funny i couldn't figure it out...

thanks a lot again :)

PS : i asked this before... how can i put a [RESOLVED] mark in front of the threads that come into successful conclusion(cause i can't edit the thread after some amount of time)? not this one maybe but mines. To keep the board cleaner and more useful...

At the top of the thread is a drop down menu for Thread tools, select the resolved option. :)