Kirupa Drop Down Menu Tutorial

programming flash
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I went through the “Basic” drop down menu tutorial, and got to the end only to find out the tutorial didn’t tell how to assign links to the buttons that pop up (drop down)? I have a multi-scene site that I need the pop up buttons to take me to other scenes. How could this NOT be in the tutorial? Otherwise it’s just a pop-up paperweight :slight_smile:

Little help? Thoughts?

Thanks in advance… :ear:

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anyone? anyone??

Bueller? Bueller?

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which tutorial, you didnt specify

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here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm

thank you~

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Assuming that you’ve already turned them into buttons: Select a button and open the Actions panel (F9), type this in:[AS]on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop(“FrameLabel”);
}[/AS]I don’t recommend using scenes but if you must, use frame labels to target them.

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don’t recommend “scenes”? wow … like someone telling me to not drink water!

hmmm… if I showed you the .fla file would it help? (A lot to ask I’m sure)

Broadband dependent as it’s a 14MB file …

http://designsourceadvertising.com/dsa_panorama.fla
(right click save target to disk blah blah blah)

I had tested out the method you oultined on the “Print” button to no success… have been scouring the net to find a more informative tut …

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no one using actionscript recommends using scenes :stuck_out_tongue:

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yup … that’s my next goal … to be more fluent in Actionscript … til now it’s been Scenes, Components, and HTML

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I didn’t look at your file, however, did you use Frame Labels or are you still going with Scene numbers?

If you used frame labels remember to actually have frame labels in the first place. :beam:

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I have frame labels in the first frame of all scenes, tried labels in just the Home page timeline (but removed duplicate labels as I went through the process) … my “portfolio button” has a drop down (technically pop-up) buttons (print, interactive, etc.) are embedded in a “ddmenu” MC with actions applied to each of them within the clip. Once the clip is in the main timeline the links don’t work. head scratch Nothing is mentioned on how to accomplish the “rest” of this technique in the Kirupa Basic MX Dropdown menu tut…

so … basically … it works, but the sub buttons don’t take you anywhere.

( I’m a pixel pusher and not a coder, but am slowly seeking actionscript nirvana…)

Thanks!

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It sounds like the problem might be regarding levels.

Try inserting _root. into your script like the script that I gave you earlier. This will take you back to the main timeline, when the button is pressed.

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That works like a directory pathway as in HTML?
Ooooo… tingles of enlightenment

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Is there a way to place a sound toggle button (sound on/sound off) on a drop-down menu?