Hello everyone!
Obligatory… I am very new to Flash, and do web development work only sparingly, therefore, many of the even basic concepts are still pretty new to me. ;(
I am currently working on a basic web page for one of our internal departments, and I saw the tutorial by senocular on XML Driven Drop-Down menus. This functionality is exactly what I have been looking for. I created the XML file for my menus, which has 11 “top menu” items and over 50 “sub menu” items. Due to the required length of some text in the menuitem movie clips, the dimensions of the menuitem movie clip in my menu are 210 px wide by 20 px tall. Because I have 11 top menu items, I was hoping to be able to put the menu in a table cell on the web page when the page loads, with the cell being 220 px wide by 220 px tall (which would accomodate the initial list of 11 top menu items). When I set the properties of the stage in the Flash authoring environment, I can set the width to 220 px and the height to 220 px, and still display all of the sub menu items and maintain the correct text size. However, when I load the web page, the text on the menu is reduced significantly in size, and most of the sub menu items do not display below the 220 px height of the table cell. I need to keep the dimensions of the table cell relatively small, as I need to display other information both below and to the right of this cell in other table cells. Is there a way to load the menu in a cell this size and maintain the text size of the menu text as well as the ability to display all of the sub menu items? I am expecting that this is basic Flash stuff (the relationship between the size of the stage in the authoring environment and the required space on the web page to display it correctly), but am hoping that there is a way to allow the movie to initially load in a “confined space” such as a table cell, and then be displayed beyond those boundries when needed, as in during the mouse over events. If someone can tell me if this is possible or not, and if so, point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance,
Russ Dillion
