# Problems with a menu

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-menu/26007>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-menu/26007 "2003-07-18T14:55:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![artevital](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@artevital](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artevital)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-menu/26007/1 "2003-07-18T14:55:49Z")

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Hello:  
I want to do a menu like have in his portolio [http://www.unpezvivo.com](http://www.unpezvivo.com)  
I tryed several times with botons, but I think this menu has more action script that I do not know. ¿Can you help me? ¿Do you know how to do it?  
Thanks for your help.  
Mariela

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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:** [July 18, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-menu/26007/2 "2003-07-18T16:52:22Z")

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here’s how it could be made  
(by the way there are some spanish speakers on the forum if you want more help -\> thediablo-mexican and kax too i think)

he probably created transparent buttons: here is how you do it:  
creat your shape, let say a square with black border and white fill  
press f8 to turn the white fill into a movie clip.  
go in the MC and then turn the fill into a button this time

no go back to your scene, select the movie clip and turn the alpha to 0%, you’ve got a transparent button

now to make the images change behind it all you have to do is set up a movie clip in a new layer (not the same as your buttons, so the image appears underneath) with a mask so it shows only inside the button shapes.  
if you dont want to use mask then fill the areas between the buttons - keeping only the buttons transparent

ill explain myself better with a flash file, ill post it here soon…

mlk

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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:** [July 20, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-menu/26007/3 "2003-07-20T13:40:26Z")

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-still working on the fla file, if you are interested…  
ill post it here in a couple of hours