[F8] Please help, I'm gonna commit suicide

[panchoskywalker]

I have a problem with an horizontal drop menu, the menu is supposed to appear from left when I click on "menu" and hide again whien I click on "menu", It used to work fine till I've edited the differents buttons in the menu moviclip, please take a look, it's in the french part.


here's the fla in rar

[panchoskywalker]

someone help me please!

[panchoskywalker]

it appears by itself, that's the problem in fact, sorry.

[austriaman]

Delete all your code from the menudo-movieclip. Instead, put this on the corresponding frame:

code:

---

menudo.speed = 0;

menudo.onRelease = function() {

	if (menudo._x>0) {

		menudo.speed -= 640/8;

	} else {

		menudo.speed += 640/8;

	}

};

menudo.onEnterFrame = function() {

	this._x += this.speed;

	// ease function

	this.speed *= 0.90;

};

---

And please - don't commit suicide.

[panchoskywalker]

thanks a lot, you saved my life!

[panchoskywalker]

I've made what you sais and the horizontal drop menu move correctly from right to left, but now the buttons that ares inside the menu does not work and they don't take me where I'm supposed to go.

Could you have a last look....my life is still in danger.

here's it is (in RAR)

[austriaman]

Ok, delete the code I provided. Also delete the code you have on your menu button (instance of "Schalter"). Instead, assign an instance name to "Schalter" and paste this code into the frame that holds the Schalter-button:

code:

---

_root.menudo.speed = 0;

instancenameofSchalter.onRelease = function() {

	if (_root.menudo._x>0) {

		_root.menudo.speed -= 640/8;

	} else {

		_root.menudo.speed += 640/8;

	}

};

_root.menudo.onEnterFrame = function() {

	this._x += this.speed;

	this.speed *= 0.90;

};

---

Sorry about that...

[ChaseNYC]

I couldn't find the menu, the english button didn't work and the francais button just led to an intro which kept looping infinitely...

[panchoskywalker]

God bless you!

[panchoskywalker]

Hey! I've done it, there's still some thing to arrange about fonts but I want to ask you if you think it's possible to make that the buttons stay blue when you're in the selected section.

exemple: click on french>reportages> pick any...do you see that the button "reportages" is blue just on rollover? Is it possible to make it stay blue when you're in reportages?

here it is

[austriaman]

Certainly isn't possible as long as you don't provide any source files / code.

[panchoskywalker]

Hi, thanks for being there, which source code should I provide to make each button change colo when I'm in a specific section? is it too difficult? what do u suggest?


Panchoskywalker.

[austriaman]

One way of doing this
aut.

[panchoskywalker]

Thanks, I did it for "reportages" button, the thing is that there are also other buttons, so what can I do for that "reportages" go back to grey when I click on another button?

check it

[austriaman]

I guess arrays would be an option.
What the following code basically does is telling each button to access its correlating element in a predefined array named "myArray":

code:

---

var myArray:Array = new Array("home", "reportages", "voyages", /* etc. */);

function inArray(ar:Array, search:String) {

	for (var i in ar) {

		var obj = _root[ar[i]];

		if (ar[i] == search) {

			obj.gotoAndStop("blue");

		} else {

			obj.gotoAndStop("grey");

		}

	}

}

home.onRelease = function() {

	inArray(myArray, "home");

};

reportages.onRelease = function() {

	inArray(myArray, "reportages");

};

voyages.onRelease = function() {

	inArray(myArray, "voyages");

};

// etc.

---

Further reading:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/array.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...lues_array.htm

Hope this helps,
aut.

[panchoskywalker]

Hi, I've tried withe two buttons "voyages" and "reportages", I still don't get that these buttons get grey when I click on the otherone.

I've put this array in the frame label grey, blue and active. I don't know where does the variable change when I click on a button...do you think I'm doing well?

I think I've have to ad some code in the active status, so it goes back to grey when the variable change.

var myArray:Array = new Array("home", "reportages", "voyages", "recherche", "publications", "expo", "bio", "contact");
function inArray(ar:Array, search:String) {
for (var i in ar) {
var obj = _root[ar[i]];
if (ar[i] == search) {
obj.gotoAndStop("blue");
} else {
obj.gotoAndStop("grey");
}
}
}
home.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "home");
};
reportages.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "reportages");
};
voyages.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "voyages");
};
recherche.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "recherche");
};
publications.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "publications");
};
expo.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "expo");
};
bio.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "bio");
};
contact.onRelease = function() {
inArray(myArray, "contact");
};


here's the site


here's the fla