Hover Caption style

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Ok, well this is a tricky one (at least it sounds it to me) but I was messing around with hover captions after doing a hover caption tutorial…and I need to know whether it is possible to get your caption to appear in another animation…
the point in this being e.g your menu on the left…instead of dropdown style a small blurb roughly describing the menu option appears on the other side of your site. complex demands but if ANYONE could so much as lend a wisened ear to this I would be very greatful

–jc-- (-:

p.s feel free to poke fun at this request, but give a guy some help :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah, all you have to do is have that movieClip with the textbox inside over to the right side of the screen and remove the code that makes it hover. Then it will just be a caption that appears and disappears.
Just in case, this is the code to remove:


startDrag(_root.caption, true);
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thanks freddy, It worked, alot neater than the hack ‘n’ slash tactics i took to the script with to get it to appear all in the same dynamic text box…
but now
more trickiness, what if I needed my menu (middle left coloumn) of my site which was a pre-made flash to somehow link to another seperate .swf that was located somewhere else on my site, doing the same job as before, producing a blurb…but to a totally different region :S

many thanks for any/all help people :slight_smile:

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There’s a few ways you can do that.

  1. Make your entire page a swf file then load in external swf files as shown here:
    http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm

  2. What I usually do (as shown here: http://www.copperssportsgrill.com ) You can use frames. A lot of people frown on frames because of compatability and frustration making them - but I like em…
    http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm
    Seven posts down, there’s a little tutorial I did for someone - then you can load in html files with swf inside them.

  3. Really big hover captions :stuck_out_tongue:

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yeh, I considered the first, but my site has to be able to cater for non-flash users so it can’t all be .swf I don’t fully get what you meant about frames, but I’ll do my research :slight_smile:

if all else fails check my site for XXL hover captions :stuck_out_tongue:

thanks
–jc–

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Aw crap…I forgot to give you the link to what I was talking about before when I said seven posts down - I wrote a tut - whatever, well, here it is, sorry:
:trout:
http://freddythunder.com/test/frames/frameset.html

duh…

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no problem man, thanks again :slight_smile:

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just finished checking that link, thing is, my layout is defined using css with just a little html, my layout and whole site is fine, just i need to find some way of getting my menu column (.leftcloumn) to have it so when i hover over one of my menu options, it displays it in a box the height of my banner above where a .rightcolumn would go…i need to know if this is possible in flash (hence the hover style writing set to a specific dynamic text box) to appear in that box, whether i need to somehow link 2 .swf’s or just make a big hover caption lol…

i hope you all can understand my needs
–jc–

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I see. You can have seperate swf files talk to eachother using ‘listners’, but I have no idea how to use them - very advanced stuff. You can do a search on addListner - a bunch of stuff will come up. Sorry I couldn’t help further - good luck!

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thanks dude, you gave me insight to what i need, now i can at least know what i need to get :slight_smile: