Flash Menu Style Help

I need to build a flash based menu and want to learn how to
do the same cool functionality that I see on the
http://grandcentral.com website.
Notice on the "features" menu how when you click on an item
the arrow will scroll down to that menu item. I'd like to learn how
to make a pointer move across multiple other items to get to the
one that is being clicked on like that. I hope it is easy enough
that I can do it!
Any help is most appreciated as I have a project I'm doing
right now that would really benefit from this.
Thanks in advance!
I work on a mac running osx and flash 8 pro.

Flash menus (Flash navigation, period) is a terrible thing from a functional standpoint. It looks really nice, but the honeymoon ends there. As far as SEO goes, your entire site, beyond the landing page, is invisible. A search robot will only see an embeded Flash object.
You have to ask yourself a basic question.
1. What is the purpose of building a website and putting it online?
If it's for your own personal enjoyment and nothing more, then a Flash menu may be for you. If it's for a business or band, or a political group or social group, and you want people to be able to find it in Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. then you want as many indexible links as possible on your landing page so they will show up in related searches like schedules, articles, galleries, etc.

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Flash menu target help

Well because I am only a year old to flash I bought a program
called Flash Menu Labs which helps me create a horizontal menu with
many branches. I have figured out how to import this into my
project using the loader component but i have some other questions.
I can add links to my menu items within Flash menu labs using
the open method and _self, _blank, _top, _parent but not sure which
one to use or how to get it to gotoandplay or how to open another
swf within my current project. So when I click one of my menu items
it will actually open or goto a frame in the project that i put the
menu.
Hope that makes some sense. I have enclosed some pictures to
help make some sense of this. The first picture shows the Flash
Menu Labs menu i created and you can see it works using the loader
component. The second picture shows the actual Flash Menu labs
layout screen.
Picture 1
picture
2

mikeoffy69 wrote:
> Well because I am only a year old to flash I bought a
program called Flash Menu
> Labs which helps me create a horizontal menu with many
branches. I have figured
> out how to import this into my project using the loader
component but i have
> some other questions.
>
> I can add links to my menu items within Flash menu labs
using the open method
> and _self, _blank, _top, _parent but not sure which one
to use or how to get it
> to gotoandplay or how to open another swf within my
current project. So when I
> click one of my menu items it will actually open or goto
a frame in the project
> that i put the menu.
>
>
> Hope that makes some sense. I have enclosed some
pictures to help make some
> sense of this. The first picture shows the Flash Menu
Labs menu i created and
> you can see it works using the loader component. The
second picture shows the
> actual Flash Menu labs layout screen.
>
This is not fully featured Flash application but tool
designated to crate just menus
and out put them into SWF format - Flash Player compatible .
You don't have the freedom
to add on your own action script, except the getURL requests.
You need actual Adobe Flash
authoring program to create Fla/SWF files and be able to use
action script at will.
I don't believe you will be able to even work on "Flash Menu
Labs" files. Beside export
to SWF, this tool has nothing to do with Adobe Flash. Using
Flash you will need to make
your menus entirely from scratch.
Best Regards
Urami
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Flash menu frame help

Okay well for my site I want to make a flash menu that goes
on the bottom frame and effects the top frame! A good tutorial
would be nice! Because im also new to making flash menus. So please
help!

you are not thinking right - you can't really "effect" frames
- rather you can target what *in* a
frame or frames - preferrably a Movie Clip symbol. I'm afraid
a lot more information is needed -
hard to tell what your skill level is and what you are trying
to specifically.
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Kirkius wrote:
> Okay well for my site I want to make a flash menu that
goes on the bottom frame and effects the top frame! A good tutorial
would be nice! Because im also new to making flash menus. So please
help!

Need help with installing Yahoo style flash menu CS5

I downloaded the Yahoo style menu bar from the the available widgets. I got the menu bar to show in Dreamweaver, but need help:
I have trouble understanding how to use the f-source flash editor to edit the links.
I don't seem to be able to drop the f-source.com button from the menu bar.
The bar shows up as a tiny bar in IE8, not as I had programmed it in the widget programmer.
I was instructed to Insert ==> f-source menus ==> Edit menu in Dreamweaver. Doing this leads to the following message: "Install at least one f-source menu'. I did install the f-source-UI G file in the Adobe Extension Manager CS5. What else needs to be installed?
My OS is Windows7 and I am working with Dreamweaver CS5. Please help.
Thanks,
Tony Uythoven

Flash menus (Flash navigation, period) is a terrible thing from a functional standpoint. It looks really nice, but the honeymoon ends there. As far as SEO goes, your entire site, beyond the landing page, is invisible. A search robot will only see an embeded Flash object.
You have to ask yourself a basic question.
1. What is the purpose of building a website and putting it online?
If it's for your own personal enjoyment and nothing more, then a Flash menu may be for you. If it's for a business or band, or a political group or social group, and you want people to be able to find it in Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. then you want as many indexible links as possible on your landing page so they will show up in related searches like schedules, articles, galleries, etc.

Problem with Flash Menu in iWeb...need help please.

Ok, I designed a flash menu in iWeb and successfully placed it at the top of the site. I then used the "transparent shape" method to make the hyperlinks work properly. I made sure the flash menu was in the back and the transparent shape hyperlinks were in the front. The menu works just fine for me and anyone else using Safari or Mac computers. However, people on Windows using Firefox, IE or Chrome are unsuccessful in clicking the links. They do not work for them.
Here's my website's homepage link. Keep in mind, if you look there on Safari, it will work but it does not when on a Windows computer. Any help is greatly appreciated.
http://www.platinumsportspicks.com/Index/Home/Home.html
It is clearly the problem that the flash menu is opening in front of the hyperlinked shapes but I'm not sure how to make sure they stay on front.
Message was edited by: kwgrooms

I don't know the answer to that one but you can use the Mouse Over and Click method I have described on this page....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Tricks/MouseOver.html
It works in IE.
Its just a question of making up two different buttons with text for each link, taking a screenshot and cropping them and adding the JPEGs to your upload folder.
You can make up the buttons on an iWeb page and then delete them when you have taken the screenshots. I usually do this sort of thing in Keynote so that I can save them in case I need to modify them.

Need help with flash menu

i have a drop-down flash menu and i would like it to be
centered on my page. i use dreamweaver. when i put the code in, it
automatically puts the flash menu to the left, and the drop-down
submenus are layered (they will fall over any text that is
underneath the menu).
now, when i center the menu using a div align, the menu
creates white space underneath it (the submenus can’t fall
over any text – in other words, it deletes the layering).
here is my code (i had to put spaces in so the code
wouldn’t get messed up here). hopefully someone can tell me
how to center my menu but keep the layering.
this portion goes in the head section of the code:
< script type=”text/javascript”
src=”flashobject.js”>< /script>
and this goes in the body:
< div id=”color_id” >Flash Menu
Placeholder.< /div>
< script type=”text/javascript”>
var fo = new
FlashObject(“menu2.swf”,”color”,”879”,”76”,”6”,”#FFFFFF”
fo.addParam(“menu”,”false” );
fo.addParam(“quality”,”best” );
fo.addParam(“salign”,”LT” );
fo.addParam(“scale”,”noscale” );
fo.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent” );
fo.write(“color_id” );
if (navigator.appName.indexOf(“Microsoft” )!= -1)
document.color.style.position=”absolute”;
document.color.style.zIndex=”10”;
document.color.style.left=”0px”;
document.color.style.top=”0px”;
}else{
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.position=”absolute”;
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.zIndex=”10”;
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.left=”0px”;
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.top=”0px”;
} < /script>

no. what happens is this: the menu centers itself, but the
drop down submenus do not layer over any text underneath the menu.
instead, the menu creates white space underneath itself (the same
height as the submenus), and then the text appears under the white
space. i've tried in both firefox and ie and it works in neither
browser. i'm stumped as to why this does not work!

XML flash Menu

Hello Guys,
I am stuck with a xml flash menu which contains quite a few great options to manipulate the text, url, button and even change the color to the menu externally from xml. The only thing missing here (which I massively need it) is the option resizing the buttons from the xml file itself. The buttons need to be resized so that they fit each text length. I have the feeling that someone that is good at XML and deal with ActionScript would be able to easily add this option.
Thanks for commiting your time on this and I would be happy to help anyone in return who tackles this requirement I am after now.
Please download the file attached and you can own it as well.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Respectfully yours,
Beko

Ok, here we go:
ACTION SCRIPT CODE:
_parent._visible = false;
// xml processing
menu_cfg_xml = new XML();
menu_cfg_xml.load(String(_url.slice(0, (_url.length-3)))+"xml");
menu_cfg_xml.ignoreWhite = 1;
menu_cfg_xml.onLoad = function(ok) {
    // create main menu after successful loading of XML
    if (ok) {
        create_menu();
    } else {
        trace("XML not loaded");
counter = 1;
function create_menu() {
    while (counter<menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length) {
        attachMovie("button_type", "btn"+counter, counter);
        set("btn"+counter+"._x", counter*80-100);
        btn1._y = 0;
        // set the buttons text
        set("btn"+counter+".the_text", menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[counter].attributes.text);
        set("btn"+counter+".the_url", menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[counter].attributes.url);
        set("btn"+counter+".the_target", menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[counter].attributes.target);
        this["btn"+counter].onRollOver = this["btn"+counter].onDragOver=function () {
            this.effect.gotoAndPlay(2);
            this.textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color2;
        this["btn"+counter].onRollOut = this["btn"+counter].onDragOut=function () {
            this.textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color1;
            this.effect.gotoAndPlay(9);
        this["btn"+counter].onRelease = function() {
            if (this.the_url != undefined and this.the_url != "") {
                getURL(this.the_url, this.the_target);
        //set buttons color
        this["button_color"+counter] = new Color("btn"+counter+".btn_color");
        this["button_color"+counter].setRGB("0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes .button_color);
        //set button effect color
        this["effect_color"+counter] = new Color("btn"+counter+".effect");
        this["effect_color"+counter].setRGB("0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes .effect_color);
        //set button text color
        this["btn"+counter].textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color1;
        counter++;
    _parent._visible = true;
    info_clip._visible = false;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
XML CODE:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding= "UTF-8" ?>

<menu>
<options button_color="000066" effect_color="87A10C" text_color1="87A10C" text_color2="FFFFFF">
</options>
<button text="Task force" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent">width="250" height="136"</button>
<button text="Service og turisme" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Fodbold" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Idraet" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Kunst and Design" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Teknisk/praktisk linje" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Gastronomi" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Laekker mad" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Musik" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Turbo-boglig" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
</menu>

Next and Previous slide from Flash Menu

We are currently tasked with updating SAP training that was
created with OnDemand software. The current simulations have a
Javascript menu on each screen which provides various functions
including moving from current slide to next or previous slides.
When the existing movie is played and captured, we lose the
javascript menu functionality.
I have created a Flash Menu and have imported it to the newly
captured Captivate movie. All links on the menu work except Next
Slide and Previous slide.
The script I use for the button for the Next slide is as
follows:
this.next_btn.onRelease =function(){
this._parent._parent..nextFrame();
Also I have tried substituting for nextFrame "play" and for
the target path "_root" for the first "_parent."
The variables "rdcmndNextFrame" and "rdcmndPrevious" do not
work unless you are using a playback bar, which detracts from the
simulation.
Has anyone ever created this type of functionality? It seems
that it would be straight forward. It is most likely a target path
issue. The captivate movie is the container for the flash menu. To
access the captivate movie timeline and move to the next or
previous slide is what I really need.
Help!

I resolved the issue by selecting to use a playback bar and
then in the Flash file setting the visibility of the playback bar
to "0".

Traget Iframe from flash menu

hi,
i had flash menu which i had put in iframe as i wanted to have fixed page size and menu items were long ,so i made product html page in which there is flash menu,then i call product html page in <iframe> in main page but event not working,i guess its something releated to target but i am not getting it.
Any help will be appreciate.

Sending you copy of demo side.what i want to do is..
.when menu is clicked that page should loaded and the menu item is highlighted in menu which is in iframe.it used to work properly when i remove iframe but then the product list is long and i want to present in fixed webpage without scoller for which i am using iframe.if you have anyother idea for presenting scroller in flash please let me know.

Expanding menu bar help

i have search for about 2-3hrs and cant figure out how to create a vertical expanding navigation bar like the one on www.louisvuitton.com on their main page there is a menu box on the right and when you put your mouse over it it expands allowing you to choose you country. i want to make this horizontal, not sure what this is called so i might have been searching for the wrong thing but any help in finding a tutorial would be great thanks

You will lose a lot of Google's ability to map your site unless you submit a special site map to the search engine (see mine under www.aloe-vera.org/public_.xml ).
To submit a sitemap to Google you need a google account (such as Gmail) and then go to: www.google.com/webmasters/tools to submit your sitemap. This will help to balance having a Flash menu.
I would love to see your menu when it is done! Best wishes, David
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Subject: expanding menu bar help
google
Build a Versatile ActionScript 3.0 Menu with Masking
here is the link http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/web-design/build-a-versatile-actionscript-30-menu-wit h-masking/
ill have to mess with it some but it just about what i was looking for
>

Advanced flash menu tutorial

Hello everyone!
Is there any advanced tutorials showing how to create an advanced flash menu and header such as this one on the top:
http://images.osc3.template-help.com/wt_26184/index.html
I think my flash level is intermediat and I know how to design ordinary menu but this one here displays:
* Loading scene
* nice quickly animated objects in the movie introduction
also is there any Flash effects that I can include in Flash such as SwishMax effects, or do I have to create my own motion presets?

I'd recommend that if you want to use fancy Flash navigation like shown in the link above, do so using swfobject
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
and a complete set of alternate navigation buttons for non-Flash devices. That way you can have the best of two worlds... Flash and regular HTML/CSS navigation. This has actually been a Flash "Best Practice" for some time now.
The best way to properly set this up is to first provide the alternate content (in this case the navigation) then only after you have that working, add the Flash part.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Flash Menu Drop down buttons

Hi all,
Im interested in creating a banner type flash menu with a
header for each button and then once the mouse is clicked over the
button a menu drops down with more buttons.
Any help please?

to clarify if i need, just the ones on the Macromedia site at
the top.
Any help?

Flash Menu in Captivate

We are currently tasked with updating SAP training that was
created with OnDemand software. The current simulations have a
Javascript menu on each screen which provides various functions
including moving from current slide to next or previous slides.
When the existing movie is played and captured, we lose the
javascript menu functionality.
I have created a Flash Menu and have imported it to the newly
captured Captivate movie. All links on the menu work except Next
Slide and Previous slide.
The script I use for the button for the Next slide is as
follows:
this.next_btn.onRelease =function(){
this._parent._parent..nextFrame();
Also I have tried substituting for nextFrame "play" and for
the target path "_root" for the first "_parent."
The variables "rdcmndNextFrame" and "rdcmndPrevious" do not
work unless you are using a playback bar, which detracts from the
simulation.
Has anyone ever created this type of functionality? It seems
that it would be straight forward. It is most likely a target path
issue. The captivate movie is the container for the flash menu. To
access the captivate movie timeline and move to the next or
previous slide is what I really need.
Help!

I found that I needed to first enable the playback bar for
these commands to work. I didn't want the playback bar so in Flash
I was able to hide it.

Flash menu not appearing in Captivate 4

Gentlefolk;
I am evaluating the Captivate 4 trial version and ran into a problem.
I cobbled together a quickie menu in Flash which works fine in C4.
However, seeking a more elegent solution, I created another menu using a Flash menu generator (Antssoft) which works fine in a browswer and in a Flash player, but does NOT appear in C4. I see a Flash bounding box on the page, but when viewed in browser mode or by a standard preview, there is just a blank page.
I have tried variations on my theme with the menu: changing the filename to .flv so it could be imported as a Flash object, I have used the original .swf extenstion and imported as an animation, but all with the same results.
Suggestions? Is Captivate a beast in which one needs to build any type of menu within a Captivate project itself,and it really doesn't like external menus?
Seems odd..but possible....
Thx!
Don

What do you mean cobbled together a quickie flash menu?
Was it something you actually built in flash to control the captivate swf, such as an animation you placed on the stage or a widget object you built?
Yes...Captivate is a beast, well at first. There are only so many variables/functions you are allowed to play around with, although with some more digging you may be able to find some more in the class files for captivate.
I am not sure if you are stil in need of help with this or not, let me know.
Zcarr

Flash menu bar's hyperlink doesn't work after imported into dreamweaver

I have major problems when I tried to import a flash menu bar with hyperlink (created in flash) into dreamweaver. I have 5 buttons in the same flash banner file and each button is supposed to have its unique hyperlink. None of these 5 hyperlinks is working, but it works fine if run by the .swf file alone. What could I have done wrong in flash or dreamweaver?
Version Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4
Please help....thank you in advance.
Kind regards,

Hi Hans-G,
Problem only exist on Windows 7 system, working fine in XP. Thanks for yr hep!

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