# Please help me make this menu!

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 31, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-make-this-menu/2454 "2002-03-31T23:01:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-make-this-menu/2454/1 "2002-03-31T23:01:17Z")

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Hi,

I have a four-item menu like below:

Item One  
Item Two  
Item Three  
Item Four

Upon rollover on one of them (say, Item Two), I want the rest of the Items to dim/reduce alpha. When clicked, I want that state to remain (the clicked one ‘normal’, the rest ‘dimmed’). It’s for a one-page portfolio site with the left 5/8 of the screen designated for swapping pictures; the 3/8 left to the right is where the menu will be. Underneath the menu is a thumbnail scroller that swaps out according to the Item clicked. At this point, I just want to know how to dim the other Items when one is clicked. If possible, I want to learn how to do the same to the scrolling thumbnails - when one image is selected, the rest dims on the scroller.

I can run Flash5 as well, so whatever help I can get will be a lifesaver.

Thanks everyone,  
nn

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-make-this-menu/2454/2 "2002-04-01T03:03:25Z")

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Put simply…

Switches. You’d have to make it so that when you click on the top one,

\_root.x = 1;

and make it so that

if (\_root.x == 1)  
{  
//(I can’t remember the exact command, but I think this is  
//it… You should be able to find it on the properties list  
//in the actions helper thingy anyway.)  
\_root.top.\_setAlpha (100);  
}

… and the others would have it so that if x == 1 their alpha is lowered. Then, if x == 2 (the second to top one is selected), the top one has lowered alpha, the second one has raised alpha, etc.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-make-this-menu/2454/3 "2002-04-01T09:21:37Z")

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As always, there are numerous ways to achieve this. Actually, I did \<a href=http://www.multimania.com/ilyaslamasse/tween.fla\>this\</a\> for someone recently. I hope it can help you.

pom 0]

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-make-this-menu/2454/4 "2002-04-02T02:04:06Z")

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Thank you guys for your big help. I’m script-inept, so ilyaslamasse, I used your fla for the most part, and added a little ball that bounces next to each Item upon rollover. What I’d like to do is this:

When clicked on an Item, I want that Item to remain ‘normal’ while the others are “dimmed.” I also want the little ball to stay next to the clicked Item (as an indicator that it is the one chosen).

Also, I have a movie clip that needs to load accordingly to the chosen Item (Item1 has its own scrolling thumbnails, as does Item2, etc). This thumbnail scroller loads right below the Four-Item menu. How do I do this?

Thank again for your huge help - and thanks in advance.