Complex Drop-Down/Layering Issue

programming flash
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Please help me figure out how to fix this. I have 7 main navigation items, some of them have pop-out menus to the right with subnavigation.

Current Example

I’m trying to get it to behave like this:

  • You roll over Nav item 1, and Nav1’s subnavigation shows to the right
  • You are able to still click on Nav item 1 or it’s subnavigation and each will bring up content
  • When you roll off the area (nav1’s area + subnav1’s area), the submenu goes away

As you can see, I’ve got Nav1’s **rollOver **and **rollOut **working, but now I need to place a button area over “Musical Arts Center” (Nav1) so I can have an **onRelease **for that item. **

If I place a clickable button or Movieclip over Nav1, it messes up the *rollOver *and *rollOut *due to a layering issue.

**I can’t come up with a solution. Please help.

2

i can’t fully understand your email, but this is how i make drop down type menus.

make a movie clip with a button inside of it. have the button make the mc go to a certain frame on rollover (the frame where you animate the drop-down, 2ndary menu popup whatever). make the animation for the drop down have a stop-frame. in that stop frame (on another layer) make a button that surrounds your orignal button and the area that has popped-up/dropped down. Then on that button put a rollover action to make the MC go to the next frame where you have the rollover collapse, retract, whatever…

hope that helps!