I am creating a flash portfolio and what i did was make my nav menus w/ sub menus instead of a drop down. what i want is to be able to control the submenu buttons inside the submenu MC.
i created a MC with the animation for the sub menu. The problem is, how do i click the main menu button and have the submenu movie play until it reaches the stop action, be able to click those buttons in that movie clip, be able to load a move into the target window, be able to close the submenu at will with out affecting the loaded movie, and have the sub menu close (play the rest of its animation) when another main menu button is clicked.
:::whew:::
i know it’s a long hard question, but in pretty new to this and am trying to learn on my own. any help would be appreciated. 
Thanks
that is quite a mouth full.
if you do enough planning anything is possible. how big is your source file? do you have a practice run?
you have a menu within a menu… and the menu must link to an html page? that’s if i understand correctly?
the only thing i can think of is setting a variable on _level0 give the variable a value such as false… make an if statement that will check the value of the variable. if it is false then it must continue playing the sub menu… when it gets to the stop frame reset the variable to be true in which case the sub menu will close (should the user move the mouse out of the area)…
erm, don’t know if that makes any sense. normally works quite well to have to file in front of you and then you play around with any idea that you can get on reaching your goal.
hope it helps you, or at least spark your imagination into another direction.
markcq
ok…maybe i just confused everyone who saw this. lol
ok. I have the menu and everything set up. including the sub menu. the problem is really with scripting. Problem 1: The first thing i need to do is get the main menu button, when rolled over, to bring down the submenu. the submenu animation and submenu buttons are located with in the over and down states of the main menu button.(this i did already)
Problem 2: Getting the submenu animation to stop at a point so the buttons can be selected, and whith out the sub menu dissapearing unless another main menu button is selected.
problem 3: when another main menu item is selected, the sub menu will play the rest of its animation.
i hope this clears up some of what i was trying to explain earlier.
thanks,
