Newbie and Need help with Nav Menu

[Craiger9e]

Hello,

My name is Craig and am new to the board. I've been reading things here for about a year now, and it's helped me out tremendously. I'm currently stuck on something, and think I may be over thinking it. Here's my problem

I'm working on a menu, that runs vertically. I have sub links under some of the main links, and when I click on them, the sublinks don't "push" everthing else down.

Basically, I want it to work the same as this one http://www.clifbar.com/

I started by doing it frame by frame, but thought that was way too much. Then I made separate movies, but the text keeps going behind the text underneath it.....

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,

Craig

[blanius]

I think what you see there is the accordion component from Flash. I've considered how to make one for KM but as of yet I cannot think of a good way that isn't a ton of work. I'm sure it could be done.

Hint to Lucky Monkey (This would be a great addition to the KM components)

[dniezby]

I have done something like this before...
Let me see if I can find it.

[Craiger9e]

Well, I guess I haven't been over thinking it then.

So far the only think I've come up with is making about 20 different frames to make every combination available....but it's just such a pain. I figured there has to be an easier way.....thanks for checking into it for me

[dniezby]

Well, you don't need 20 different frames. You only need frames for the Main Level Buttons. Once the submenus are opened and they're clicked you can send the menu back to one.

Here is a small example with ONLY frames for the main level buttons...I take that back, I added some frames between to create a little animation of the buttons shifting.
http://www.nssclan.org/km/amenu/menu.html

[this.Alex]

You could do a action script one.

[this.Alex]

Heres a action script example its vector based but it runs of action script not frames and it makes the file size realy small to have a look at it.
http://www.creativededication.com/Hosting/menu.swf

[Craiger9e]

thanks for all the help, I do appreciate it.....

I've gotten something similar to dniezby's menu, and I may have to figure out a way to make it work that way. My problem was that I had about 7 sublinks under on category, and by the time click on one and it opens, the cursor is way way off........I'll post it and you guys can let me know what you think

Thanks again for the help, i'll try to get it posted in the next day or so

[Craiger9e]

Thanks again for all the help...

This is what I was able to come up with.

Menu Bar