Flash help

[silver26]

I am making a drop down menu in flash.

I have a small movie clip with the actionscript:

on(rollOver){
	gotoAndPlay("over");
}
on(rollOut){
	gotoAndPlay("out");
}

It simply fades in, or fades out the menu using frames that I have set in the movie clip.

This works fine, but when I try and add a button to the menu, it will either be unclickable (if inside the movie clip) or it will flip out, if it is laid on top of the clip.

Take a look

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Ultimate_Gohan]

Are you using an invisible button on the stopped frame only? Are there any actions in the frames other than the button? Have you thought about using the hitTest action?

[limey]

What you've done so far actually looks really cool - nice job.

[silver26]

Well guys, I took the rollOut code off and put an invisible button around the the menu that makes the menu disappear on rollOver, and it seemed to do the trick.

Ultimate_Goham - I tried the hitTest thing, and couldn't really get it working. I'm an amateur with the actionscript. I might pick up an actionscript book, got any suggestions?

[Stug]

What you've done works well until you place another button in the movie and then the rollOver & rollOut commands get confused...

I found from bitter experience that you need to assigned a variable (in my version: VariableNamedWhatever) to make this work:

---Code for the Invisible button---

on (rollOver) {
VariableNamedWhatever = "1";
tellTarget ("over") {
play();
}
}

on (rollOut) {
VariableNamedWhatever = "2";
gotoAndPlay(3);
tellTarget ("out") {
stop();
}
}

---Code for Frame 3---

if (Number(VariableNamedWhatever) == 1) {
tellTarget ("over") {
play ();
}
}

Hope this helps...?

[silver26]

Why didnt I think of that *smacks head*

Thanks Stug, that will definitely come in handy for the next time.

[Ultimate_Gohan]

You could do what stug said, I just thought that using a blank movie clip or any movie clip that would trigger the animation. I could go into it more if you like or just use what stug said. That works to.