# Please help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 24, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657 "2003-05-24T16:08:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@flying\_monkey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flying_monkey)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/1 "2003-05-24T16:08:16Z")
hi,
im a noob with flash so this q. proberly isnt that hard but it has real confused me. :\*(
I want to make a menu going along the left side of my site (o.k so far) with a semi-transparent bar that follows the curser (with Easing) up and down the menu
please help me :rambo:
thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/2 "2003-05-24T16:44:43Z")
Ok, make a mc of the transparent box, give it instance name slide.
make all your buttons mcs and give them instance names lnk1, lnk2, lnk3, etc…
put this on first frame of timeline:
numLinks = 6; //number of links you have
slide.\_visible = true;
slide.speed = 12;
sliderMove = function () {
slide.\_visible = true;
slide.\_y = slide.\_y-(slide.\_y-newy)/slide.speed;
};
onEnterFrame = function () {
for (i=1; i\<=numLinks; ++i) {
link = “lnk” add i;
if (\_root[link].hitTest(\_xmouse, \_ymouse)) {
newy = \_root[link].\_y;
\_root[link].onEnterFrame = sliderMove;
}
}
};
I didn’t code this, found it here on the forums somewhere awhile back, but its really easy to customize and easy to understand how the code works. hope it helps. =]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/3 "2003-05-24T17:19:09Z")
i did what you told me but i still cant get it to work ;(
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/4 "2003-05-24T18:13:34Z")
Why not change the Alpha levels and use this:
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htm)
Just make it vertical instead of horiz.
That’s what I do.
(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/5 "2003-05-24T18:28:21Z")
here is an fla…
=]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/6 "2003-05-24T18:39:52Z")
Thanks loads
the .fla has realy helped :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/7 "2003-05-24T19:32:38Z")
o.k…
the .fla you posted works fine, just how i want the slider to work, so i copyed the actionscript and all the mcs instance names but my slider still dosent work ☹
dose it make a diffrance if im haveing the whole menu in a mc?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/8 "2003-05-24T19:32:38Z")
good stuff… im glad to be the helper and not the helpee for once, hehehe. =]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/9 "2003-05-24T19:35:44Z")
hmmm…maybe post the fla, I’ll try and fix it…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/10 "2003-05-24T19:38:14Z")
ya it wont work if its in an mc…and i’m not really sure how to go about making it work that way. Why cant you just keep it on the main timeline?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/11 "2003-05-24T19:40:35Z")
i realy do need it in a mc ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/12 "2003-05-24T19:47:24Z")
i guess i will have to do it anover way :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/13 "2003-05-24T19:49:13Z")
Hmmm. well i suppose you would have to change the paths…
I’m not totally sure how well this would work, maybe wait for a more experienced member to back me up/ correct me, but you’d have to repath all your instances…
so where it says slide, youd havta put (with menu being the instance name of the mc…)
\_root.menu.slide
and in the if statements it would have to be changed also…
\_root.menu[link]
This is totally just a stab, i could be completely wrong, so it may be wise to wait for another opinion on this…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/21657/14 "2003-05-24T20:01:24Z")
ive done it without useing the mc now and its working 😃
thx for all the help