Flash Drop Down Menu

Hi all
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.
Is there any tutorials or information out there that I can
learn, or could somebody give me an idea of what to do. I
understand how to use the Menu component and how to create a
regular drop down menu within the boundaries of a swf file
javono
www.javono.com

you can't visibly animate flash objects outside the stage
boundaries. you can appear to do so using div tags so that's what
you should check.

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Archdiocese of
Omaha
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(sarcasm). After looking
> online at many a sources to try to find out about drop
down menus, I found
that
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projectseven.com.
I
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