Hello –
One final problem for my site… I am hoping someone can take a peek and help me out.
On my site I have a main nav bar. This nav bar contains attached mc’s generated from an XML array in which I attached movie clips and loaded them with XML text data to display the individual navigation section headers to be clicked.
This all works great! I have them highlighting when rolled over and everything! Problem is-- when I click one I would like it to stay highlighted. THEN-- when I click another one the previous link mc would go back to it’s non-highlighted state and the one that was just clicked would be the one that stays highlighted.
I can sort of do this but, when the user rolls off the highlighted open section link the rollOver/ rollOut functions make the highlight disappear…
What to do?
Below is the code I am using for this nav bar (XML, attachMovie() array and mc mouse functions) if anyone can help me out I would be greatly appreciated as this is the last thing I cannot figure out before I can launch this thing!
Thanks in advance… the code is below…
–vagabond007
// Create the new XML array object.
menuXML = new XML();
menuXML.ignoreWhite = true;
menuXML.onLoad = function(success) {
if(success) {
// Empty variables to store nodeNames and itemClip names.
var current_node;
var current_item;
var menuItems = menuXML.firstChild.childNodes;
// Loop the XML document tree and populate the navigation bar.
for(var i=0; i<menuItems.length; i++) {
// Attach the background movie clip for each nav clip & give unique names.
current_item = _parent.attachMovie(“itemClip”, “itemClip” + i, i);
// Build and format the row of navigation links horizontally.
if (i>=0 && i<=10) {
current_item._x = _root.mainNavHolderXML._x - 32 + (156*i);
current_item._y = _root.mainNavHolderXML._y + 35;
}
// Set Track As Menu property to allow mouse events on itemClips.
current_item.trackAsMenu = true;
// Display appropriate NAV LINK TEXT into the attached MC’s dynamic text field.
current_item.miniText.text = menuItems*.attributes.name;
// Set up the site section swf to be loaded when nav link is clicked.
current_item.loadswf = menuItems*.attributes.loadswf;
// Queue up the transition to play and then do it.
current_item.transition = menuItems*.attributes.transition;
// When Navigation item is clicked-- do the transition and load the section.
current_item.onRelease = function() {
// Load the external section swf.
_root.section = this.loadswf;
// Play the transition and do the preloader therein.
_root.transition_mc.gotoAndPlay(this.transition);
};
// onRollover do the highlighting of the navigation bar.
current_item.onRollover = function() {
this.useHandCursor = true;
this.miniText.textColor = 0xffffff;
};
// onRollout do the un-highlighting of the navigation bar.
current_item.onRollout = function() {
this.useHandCursor = false;
this.miniText.textColor = 0xa1a49b;
};
}
}
}
// Load the appropriate site section XML document.
menuXML.load(“xml_navigation/mainnav_xml.xml”);
