Rollover menu in Flash Catalyst

Hi, I want to make a rollover menu in Flash Catalyst. That means, that I have a "select language" PSD and a "German and Enlish" PSD. When I transform the "Select language" PSD into a Button and put the second graphic into the state "over", then the menu opens like it should do. But now i can't transform the "German" and "English" text into a button cause I can't make a button inside an other button. I hope you can understand...(:
Hope you know a way to make this rollover! (-: Sorry for my English!
Hallo, ich würde gerne ein Rollovermenü in Flash Catalyst machen. D.h. ich habe eine "Sprache wählen" Grafik und eine Grafik mit "Deutsch und Englisch". Wenn ich jetzt die "Sprache wählen" Grafik als Schaltfläche nehme, und beim Status "darüber" die andere PSD-Grafik einfüge, dann öffnet sich das Menü genau, wie ich will. Ich kann aber natürlich die Texte "Deutsch" und "Englisch" nicht als weitere Schaltfläche machen. Weil ich ja nicht eine Schaltfläche in eine Schaltfläche machen kann.
Ich hoffe, das war verständlich. (-: Hat jemand eine generelle Idee, wie man so etwas macht?
Grüße!

See if this tutorial might solve your issue:
http://insideria.com/2009/10/flash-catalyst-beta-2-combobox.html
Chris

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You can do this through states (called Pages/States in CS5, just States in Panini. I'm going to refer to it as just States here.)
You're best bet here would be to convert the graphic to a custom component by selecting it and choosing Generic/Custom Component from the HUD. Then, double-click the graphic to edit the component. Then, click the graphic and convert it into a custom component again (so you will have a component within a component.) This is necessary because you need to add an interaction, and you can only do that on components.
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with this. Does it make sense to have a button that plays a movie
clip of the menu which contains buttons? Or should the button be a
rollover and in the over stage the menu pops up and there are
buttons in there?
Finally, if I have a button that plays a movie clip with
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I hope this makes sense, please let me know if I can clarify!
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no, that doesn't make sense. but what you mean by a rollover
menu is probably clear.
don't use the button timeline to do anything, especially not
create a menu that's revealed on rollover of the button because the
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button) or you won't be able to access your movieclip with
actionscript (if the movieclip is part of the button's rollover
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My top ten requested features for Flash Catalyst Next

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Oops!! I accidentally marked this question as "Assumed answered".
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www.megaupload.com/?d=WR3STNC9
Studieretning oversigt fxg 673x470.fxp
1.3 MB
www.megaupload.com/?d=GT3R2XK4
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The help file tells me that the way around the limitation is to encapsulate components. Unfortunately, there are no concrete examples of how to do that.
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Futhermore, I have animated background boxes coming in from the bottom on the scroplling panel pages.
I was not aware of the 20 states limitation before I started the project and am hoping that I can still save the project by finding a work around that will allow me to fit all my items and their contents into the existing structure, some magic recipe ;0)
If this is not possible, I am hoping that someone can instruct me on how to design the structure to avoid the problem next time around.
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I hope that they will bring a video tutorial on how to work your way around it, with step by step examples, as soon as possible.
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Message was edited by: hjbune2

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