Drop down menu in reverse direction

[Dubya]

Hi there,

I found this tutorial on flashkit:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...6369/index.php

This drop DOWN menu is actually a MOVE UP menu: if you move the mouse over the button1, the sub-buttons appear on screen in an upward direction.

I'm trying to modify this fla so that it becomes a real drop down menu, with sub-buttons appearing UNDER the main button.

Now, in the downloaded fla I found this piece of AS:

stop ();
if (_root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1._xmouse<-50 || _root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1._xmouse>50 || _root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1._ymouse<-66 || _root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1._ymouse>14) {
_root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1.play(12);
} else {
play ();
}

So far I've figured out that the numbers -50, 50, -66, 14 are the boundaries between which the button works. The -50 is the left side of the button, the 50 is the right. The -66 is the topmost boundary of button 1 and the 14 is the bottom of the button.

My question: what do I have to change on this AS to make my buttons really really drop down? Just change the coordinates to my numbers? Reverse some/all of the > and < operators?
In my MC, I've already placed my main-button and sub-buttons on the right positions. When I move the playhead, everything appears as it should. Once published, the button doesn't function...

Any suggestions, plz?

[gparis]

_root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1.play(12);

this is wrong. play() doesn't take parameters.
maybe:
_root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1.gotoAndPlay(12);

which would suggest a frame based tween animation.

gparis

[Dubya]

Well, the _root.MCbuttons.MCbutton1.gotoAndPlay(12) refers to the closing animation of the sub-buttons. Once you move out of the mouse-boundaries, the MC goes to frame 12, the first frame of the disappearing part of the MC.

[_Jay]

I don't know if this will help or not but here's a cool tutorial.

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorial...ed/index.shtml