Flash Drop Down Menu Buttons

I was under the impression that Flash allowed one to place
buttons within buttons. Basically I am trying to create a simple
drop down navigation menu. A simple horizontal bar with four
buttons that change color and drop down menus as the viewer scrolls
over the buttons. I would then like the drop down text titles to
change color as the viewer scrolls over the individual items on the
drop down menu. When the viewer clicked on the title ("down"
position) it would once again change color. Thank you.

I ended up doing just what you suggested and everything in
the Universe is back in place.
Thank you.

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HI thanks for the reply I do not know you but dude thanks for trying to help, we are down here in Indonesia trying to save the rain forest, we are introducing the use of the coconut palm tree to ues in construction purposes, like flooring, studs etc. anyway enough of that, it will all be in the website if i can get it up, we are not trying to be cheap and do the site our selves but I need to know how to do this stuff so I can edit the site, and I really dig it.
So after all that, when youy say dropdown, I used Flash 4 can I send you the fla. file, if it's not to much trouble????
thank you JF.

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Thanks for the reply Ned. The code I'm using on the buttons is the same method I'm using for the regular buttons (i.e. not with in a movie clip).
on (release) {
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I like and appreciate the idea on keeping it with in the same timeline, but that didn't work either. This is all very strange, because as I said, the buttons that are not with in a movie clip work with that method in their action panel. And the buttons with in the movie clip work out to an url, just not a scene or frame number.
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check out this site
http://www.marquiscustomhomes.com
i want to mimic this drop down menu at the top. i made one
similar to this using fireworks, but it's such a mess of code that
i want it to be easy and look better. as far as i can tell, flash
and javascript are being used on this site?
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little project.
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fit in? Alright, thanks everyone in advance... i'll be checking
often.
http://www.marquiscustomhomes.com

I am just finishing a similar project and would recommend
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place to start.

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I am learning ActionScript 2.0 for about 6 months and I have
created a flash based website. My question is how to allow a drop
down menu to animate outside of a Shockwave files boundaries.
I have seen Flash menus that do this and also I have
seen some banner ads that allow animation to display outside of the
swf file.
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I think you have some other issues as well - at least in IE8 (see below).
I didn't look into the code you have yet, but there are several sites that offer very nice navigation systems for a pretty reasonable price - may be worth looking into. I'm not promoting any specific ones, but one site that's been heavily recommended within this forum is project seven (http://www.projectseven.com/ ), may be worth exploring as they offer full tech support, and the time saved will likely pay for the cost of the system many times over...
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On five of the dropdown menus I can get the buttons to change color
On the fifth dropdown I can see the button, but when rolled over I can't get the color to change.
I have moved the buttons on the fifth drop down to the first drop down button and they work perfectly.
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Sb!

I appreciate your reply but those arrows were not the ones I was trying to describe. In the same box where you would type your web address on the far right is a small star and then next to it an arrow pointing down. If you click on this arrow, it normally drops down a list of the websites you commonly use. Or, if you are on a website ordering something, there might be a similar arrow that you need to select in order to choose which shipping you might want such as ground, next day air, etc., these are the kinds of arrows that are not working correctly now. Any ideas on these? Thanks for trying to help me.

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I only know very basic flash. Right now, I am attempting to revamp a website. The buttons that are currently being used are only gifs that are hyperlinked and there are almost 12 buttons... I think that this is a ridiculous amount of buttons to have. It looks very cluttered.
So, I figured I should make 6 buttons and just fit the rest of the buttons into subcategorized buttons. And the way to do this is to create flash buttons with drop down menus. To see what I mean, go to this link and look at their buttons:
http://ca.msn.com/
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So far, I have gone into flash, created buttons and made graphics for the "Up" "Over" "Down" and "Hit". I have also added the menu buttons and graphics for the "Over" of each drop-down button-menu.
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While I can't help you with your deadline, I can offer a little bit of input. To take a Flash approach you should find a Flash drop down menu tutorial thru Google and follow thru that to gain an understanding of how to construct one. The problem you are having with the rollover stems from needing to extend the rollover such that each element of the dropdown also carries that rollover command. Each button needs to be assigned code to process interacting with it and linking to some other web page. The swf file that you publish would need to be sized for holding the buttons and then must be placed on the web page.
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I have a simple flash drop down menu (under the blue shop now
button) that works in all browsers except IE 6. In IE 6, the
browser sees the drop down menu as an element that takes up a lot
of vertical space (the length of the menu). Anyone know any tricks
to get it to see it as a menu and float on top the other elements
as it does in the other browsers?
Website:
http://www.successories.com/di...webalog/meetnow2.html

You might get more help from the pii news group if you post
it over there.
Dave
"bamgraphic" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Ah crud, I have been putting together this site for the
Archdiocese of
Omaha
> (
http://www.archomaha.com/archdioceseofomaha/),
and they decided to go
with
> some drop down menus, thus making my life easier
(sarcasm). After looking
> online at many a sources to try to find out about drop
down menus, I found
that
> it be easiest to purchase already made drop downs from
projectseven.com.
I
> have the drop downs working pretty much how I want them
to work in
firefox, but
> in IE, I am having some difficulties. The About Us
dropdown link is
behind
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of my other drop
down
> links. How do I get the drop downs in IE above the other
content? If you
have
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>

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