hi, i’ve searched here, and there, but nothing,
i want to make an advanced drop down menu , like the one on www.mediatemple.net, but i still cant figure out how to do it,
can anybody help me please…??
Uhhh, i’m confused. You post the question in the Flash MX section asking for help on a DHTML menu like on media temples site.
Are you looking to remake it in Flash, or get something similar in DHTML for use on an HTML site (like the example you posted).
it is made in flash…
…wait…
omg… that is not flash…
:x
but i want to do something like that… on flash…
please…
or like this…
http://www.fabrislane.co.uk/launch.html
i just took this from another post…
Im getting a feeling you don’t know what you want soooo… :x (just kidding)
DHTML Menus:
http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/
Flash (well uhhh… very very basic, but you might be able to expand):
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm
Heres another quick example for animating the menu in and stuff.
Of course this is very basic as well, you can replace the clips inside with buttons, I was just being lazy. The basic theory goes like this…
Button on stage is a movie clip symbol.
Use hitTest onEnterframe to see if mouse is over movie clip hit area
If it is, keep running the nextFrame() action to play it in, but you need a hit area under the sub button buttons so that when you go for the sub buttons your movie doesn’t play prevFrame() (thats the else part of the script).
The trick with the hit area is that you can’t have it on frame 1 otherwise that whole area will act as a hit area for the drop down, but really you just want the top button to be the hit area to open the button originally. So on frame 2 you create the hit area that the mouse has to be over to keep the menu activated.
Since we use hitTest to check if the mouse is over the movie clip, this enables us to use button symbols inside the movie clip and use them without any complications. You can of course use a hit area that blends in with your background, animate it in with your buttons, or you can use a hit area that is a graphic symbol with the alpha setting set to 0 to hide it from viewers eyes.
I hope this helps.
thanks
and can i also animate each button? or it wont work??
It should work…
You can also check that nice component from hamza: http://www22.brinkster.com/hamzaf/experiments.html (first link)
pom 
Great link there Ilyas =)
yes that is a great link
