I’m using a menu like Kirupa.com’s Squirrel Finder Menu (http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/squirrelfinder.htm) that dynamically loads data from an XML document and displays it in the menu.
The problem is, I have so many items to display that the menu is too big for the page! I’d like to be able to make the menu scroll but am having difficulties because:
- The menu is a movieClip
- The Data is loaded dynamically and has dynamic Text boxes
- The menu items are loaded into a movieClip within the menu movieClip. The menu item movieClip is created on the fly via “createMovieClip”.
I’ve tried a number of different movieClip scroll methods found on the internet without much luck. Since the content is loaded dynamically, it seems the menu scroller thinks there’s nothing there, thus won’t scroll or won’t display the menu.
As a workaround, I’d be happy to do something perhaps where the menu items would display, say, 10 at a time, with a “next” button at the bottom, allowing the following 10 items to be displayed (like the way Search Engine results are displayed I suppose). But, unfortunately I have not found a way of doing this either.
If anyone knows a way of using either one of these methods to display a menu like the Squirrel Finder one, or can point me in the direction of a tutorial on the web that works (!) please let me know. I would very much appreciate any help I can get!!
Thanks.
