Flash MX navigation query

Hi,
I have seen a really good effect in flash which I am trying
to recreate and would appreciate any assistance, I have seen a
navigation link on a website where there is a fixed word
("services"), when you move the cursor over the word it displays 3
more words above it which act as links, the words fade in shortly
after each other (each word is above the other) and then remain
while the cursor is in the area and a link is selected, if you move
the cursor away all three links slowly fade away. Once again I
would really appreciate any help you can offer with recreating this
effect.
Just to try and re-iterate what I'm trying to say - reading
it back it sounds confusing!!! please see below:
Link 3 (this fades in shortly after Link 2)
Link 2 - (this fades in shoortly after Link 1)
Link1 - (this fades in when you roll over Services)
Services - this is fixed
All of the above remain on the screen until either a link is
selected or the cursor is moved in which case the 3 links slowly
fade out

Not built into Flash player.
Look at third party products such as Zinc or you can
communicate with a custom Flash player wrapper that has OS level
permissions.
Good news is that AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) formally
Apollo may provide this for you due out in Fall. So go to Adobe's
home page and there is a link there. Look up the features. You can
download the beta and begin development. Adobe has an AIR forum so
you can ask about the DB access potential there to see if any
others are experimenting with it.

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Wallpe70 wrote:
> I am building my first Flash web site. I have the home
page built to my
> satisfaction. It's complete with an animated icon, movie
and drop down menus. I
> got the menus to work using an "On Press" get URL script
but that was before my
> client wanted to see the drop down menus throughout the
site. Since the drop
> downs overlay a portion of the body where image and text
content will be, I
> decided to do the whole thing in Flash.
>
> My first instinct was to use frame labels on every 10th
frame and place movie
> clips for the various sections on the coresponding
frames. But when I try to
> use either of the following script options, it doesn't
work.
>
> 1. placing an "On Press/Release" goto Frame# or Label (I
even selected Scene1
> from the drop down menu)
> 2. using a "goto and stop at frame or label" behavior
>
> The drop down menus are individual Movie Clips, so the
buttons are nested
> inside of them. It seems like the problem may lie here.
>
> PLEASE HELP!!!! I can try to send you the flash file to
look at if it would
> help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

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message
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> Is it possible to load navigation cue points from an xml
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> Bonjour ? tous,
>
> J'aimerais utiliser flash dans un contexte bien pr?cis :
l'affichage de petits
> personnages directement sur le bureau avec un fond
transparent.
> Pour ce faire, j'ai rep?r? des programmes comme
mprojector (
>
http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/
o? vous trouverez l'animation
> "running man" correspondant a mes souhaits ) Mon d?sir
est un peu particulier
> cependant, je souhaiterais filmer un personnage sur fond
transparent et
> l'afficher sur mon
> bureau, est-ce que l'outil flash est suffisament abouti
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> proc?der ainsi ?
>
> Ne doutez pas du plaisir que j'aurais a vous lire.
>

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redsox05 wrote:
> I have a 2 frame page, main and top. I used this
code.The page is on my desktop.
> on(release){
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must have changed
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