# Creating Drop-Down Menus

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 12, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411 "2003-07-12T14:01:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![Blackjack66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blackjack66](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Blackjack66)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/1 "2003-07-12T14:01:17Z")

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I was just looking at the tutorial “Creating Drop-Down Menus” ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm)).  
I was trying to add links to each of the buttons. Each button is supposed to go to a separte scene, but its not working. Help me please!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/2 "2003-07-12T14:04:42Z")

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does your code look anything like this for the button?

[AS]on (press) {  
gotoAndPlay(“Scene #”, 1);  
}[/AS]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/3 "2003-07-12T20:20:09Z")

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i had onRelease before

I put in “on press”, but it still doesn’t work

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/4 "2003-07-12T20:24:31Z")

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after i put in “on press”, whenever I try to click on a link, the submenu dissapears

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/5 "2003-07-12T21:24:40Z")

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heres the file if you want to take a look at it

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/6 "2003-07-12T21:26:02Z")

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should be onPress

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/7 "2003-07-13T12:23:22Z")

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still doesn’t work

can someone post a file where the links actually work?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/8 "2003-07-13T13:17:53Z")

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Scenes are very difficult to handle in my opinion… use gotoAndPlay(frame). Much easier. Heres an example if you need.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/9 "2003-07-13T13:38:07Z")

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oh wow, thanks a lot, that really helped; apprieciate it! 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/10 "2003-07-13T13:39:27Z")

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You’re welcome 🙂  
In case you didnt check the code, b1 leads to frame 5, b2 leads to frame 10, b3 to frame 15, and so on…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/11 "2003-07-13T22:01:56Z")

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Yay, hehe i finally finished my menu. Thanks again claudio!

Here’s the final result:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/12 "2003-07-23T14:00:57Z")

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I put in the code:

for (j=1; j\<=7; j++) {  
this[“b”+j].sub = j;  
this[“b”+j].onPress = function() {  
\_root.gotoAndStop(this.sub\*8); //b1 leads to frame 5, b2=10, b3=15…  
};  
}

it worked fine and all. However, on put my menu on Scene 7, and whenever i click on a button from the menu, it takes me back to Scene 1. How do I make it so it only goes to Scene 7?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-drop-down-menus/25411/13 "2003-07-23T17:35:28Z")

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is there any way to do this?