How would i do this (AS2)

programming flash
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Hi

To give you reference im talking about this design

What is going to happen is that the user rolls over a menu item up the top, gets a list of submenu items, clicks one, now heres the trick bit.

I would like the content area at the bottom to slide up, i suppose that sounds simple, but i would like it so that when they click a new submenu item the slider at the bottom closes down then slides back up with the new content item…

How should i proceed?

Thanks

Paul

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Start by learning flash.

Then realize that your design should be done in CSS.

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That was helpful, why don’t we answer every question like that?

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sekasi

That wasnt helpfull or nice, it was plain rude.

I know basic flash animation, and yeah, i could do this in CSS easily, but i dont wish to do it in CSS

My thinking behind this was that i get each submenu item to trigger a gotoandplay frame inside a movieclip, each animation could be the popup box with the content inside, pretty simple but then i will run into a few problems.

Is there any way i can open the popup, then when it hits a certain frame number, assign the movieclip an id, then i can check to see if that id exists, if it does close the box and open a new one.

Thoughts?

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Okay okay, I apologize.

But quite frankly, there’s been a weird surge of very general questions here like “see this website here, how do I do this” and similar, and it’s quite defeating to try and answer a post like that since there are so many details.

I do think you should stick to CSS for that site though, it looks like it was made for it :wink:

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WOW

Thanks Sekasi, takes a lot to do that, fair play.

Ok yeah, granted it does look like CSS would fit like a glove, unfortunatly it isnt an option, client wants flash.

Is there any way to assign an id to an object triggered by some actionscript in a frame?

[quote=sekasi;2358503]Okay okay, I apologize.

But quite frankly, there’s been a weird surge of very general questions here like “see this website here, how do I do this” and similar, and it’s quite defeating to try and answer a post like that since there are so many details.

I do think you should stick to CSS for that site though, it looks like it was made for it ;)[/quote]