drop down menu problem

[dethfire]

I am a newb at flash. I have a button. When the mouse goes over the button a section pops up under it. However, when the mouse moves to the section the section disappears due to the mouseover. How can I get it to stay until the mouse goes off the button and section?

[ktown]

have you tried making your hit area large enough to cover the whole menu? or you can put a stop on that frame and until they click another optione the menu will stay open.

[dethfire]

have you tried making your hit area large enough to cover the whole menu? or you can put a stop on that frame and until they click another optione the menu will stay open.

hmmm how do you make a hit target? I guess I just use the object dimensions.

[ktown]

ok... this should be the easiest thing for you to do

frame 1 - have the menu closed
when they rollover the button tell your timeline to go to frame 2 and stop
frame 2 - have your menu open
then after they select an option have them go to frame 3 or 4 or whatever part of the timeline that the particular option is on.

hit area - double click your button -- you will have 4 stages the last one is hit area - you can adjust this (draw a box over it or whatever) anything on that part of the button timeline is invisible in your main movie

[dethfire]

hit area - double click your button -- you will have 4 stages the last one is hit area - you can adjust this (draw a box over it or whatever) anything on that part of the button timeline is invisible in your main movie

Ok I have a button, under "over" I have my popup menu. Under the hit frame I have a box covering the popup menu. However, when I run the flash and put my mouse of the menu, it flickers very badly. If I rest my mouse on the menu it will disappear, but if I move it, then the menu will begin to flicker very badly.

[ktown]

can you make a small file with just the menu in it and attach it for me ? how many frames do you have in your timeline - it sounds like the timeline is travelling but the menu is only open on a certain frame.

[dethfire]

can you make a small file with just the menu in it and attach it for me ? how many frames do you have in your timeline - it sounds like the timeline is travelling but the menu is only open on a certain frame.

http://www.aux.uwm.edu/sandburg/pant...thertracks.fla

I'm trying to add this on the "movie" button.

thanks!

[ktown]

i'm not sure if i'm missing something here - nothing is flickering bud

[dethfire]

i'm sorry, please redownload

[ktown]

thats alright - ok - its never a good idea to throw that many things into one button [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img] - try nesting the button inside a movie clip - the only thing that you have to be sure of is that in your actions you always specify _root to direct it to the main timeline.

i made a little sample clip.

its also a pain to have a roll-over effect for menus that work the way you want yours to - because when you're rolling over it - it tells the button timeline to go back to the first frame and it keeps going back and forth - change this sample clip to rollover instead of on release and you will see what i mean

i hope this helps you out
http://www.epples.ca/flash/

[dethfire]

hi ktown, your link seems to be broken

[ktown]

hmm.. i guess its because my domain expired - whats your email addy? i can't attach a file when i email through site point.

[ktown]

wierd too... it works here

[dethfire]

ghb@uwm.edu

thanks