Adding dragable menus

[darren666]

I just made a simple fla like barneys.com but i want to know how to add dragable menu's? again like barneys.com
http://www.geocities.com/reign_in_bl.../XY-upload.htm

[Edited by darren666 on 08-11-2000 at 03:54 PM]

[erlenmeyer71]

Wow, barneys.com is a really well-done site! I've never seen that before.

The draggable menu box isn't that difficult. First, build your little navigation menu inside an MC. After you've done that, all you have to do to make it draggable is add a little bar at the top, make it a button, and give it this action:

On (Press)
Start Drag ("")
End On

On (Release)
Stop Drag
End On

[darren666]

i dont think that'll work, what i need is a dragable menu that will move with the apropriate picture.

[max_green]

why don't you go to http://www.praystation.com (the same guy who made barneys) and download the .zip that has identical code to barneys.. i forget which day it is, look around.

[erlenmeyer71]

The dragable menu will move with its environment as long as you put it inside the movie that's moving.

[darren666]

Thanx,i noticed that but when you let go of draging it it returns to it's 1st postion??

[Rob Taylor]

You may need to rethink the way you are initially creating your site. Here are some considerations you may wish to look at for your own project which have helped me:

1. I create a blank "projector" file and embed movies into it on different levels. This way I can easily maintain global and local variables pertaining to the movies or series of movies that I will be addressing throughout the site.

2. When dealing with drageable menus, you may want to retain variables that will remember the x,y coodinates of the menu. If you use a projector file, then you can write these variables to _level0 close the windows, and later open up that menu (or window) again obtaining those same coordinates for exact positioning.

3. In direct consideration to the problem you are having with moving the menu and then it returns back to its default position-- if this is occurring your may want to look at your code and see if it is reevaluating the position where its originally starts.

(Now in plain english)-- If you have a movie that your position on frame 1; you now drag that object to another position, and on release it goes back to read frame 1...it will start in its original position.

Hope some of this information will aid you...