flash button with submenu

[tigas langaw]

hello there, i was hoping someone could instruct me how to create a flash button that shows submenu when a cursor moves on top of it.
to help you guys help me - i'm using flash mx and my knowledge of actionscipting is limited just the very basics of them.
thanks in advance to anyone that responds, it will really be appreciated by me.

[JacobHaug]

Well, I decided showing you would be easier than writing a tutorial on how to accomplish such a menu. Here is the URL to the zip folder, which contains a simple menu.

Files in Zip Folder: Fla, swf, html
http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/files/zips/menu.zip

Please let me know if you have any questions, on how I accomplished such a menu, or if you want to know what a part of action script means. I tried to make the actionscript really easy for even a beginner to understand. Good Luck!!

[tigas langaw]

hello again,

i tried opening the flash document but a pop up window appeared that says "unexpected file format"

and how can i make the submenu appear horizontaly?

thank you so much for entertaining my question.

[JacobHaug]

Sorry, did not upload you the right version of flash. I thought you said MX, and you did, but I assumed you ment MX2004, oh well, here it is for flash mx.

http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/f...ps/menu-mx.zip

[tigas langaw]

the result remains the same, maybe i should check if i have a problem with my computer first, whatever it is. Anyway thank you for your help, i'll try to download the files you gave after i fix my problem.

[JacobHaug]

Try one more time, I resaved the file for Flash MX, this time making sure that I did nothing wrong on the way out. Here is the link...
http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/f...ps/menu-mx.zip

[JacobHaug]

Did it work for you that time?

[tigas langaw]

it worked! thank you very much, i can now study them!
more power to you and thanks again, ill just be around the corner reading posts here, thanks again

[JacobHaug]

Yeah, let me know if I can possible help with anything else. Sorry, things did not work out the first two times, but I am glad you are all fixed up now!! Also note, that menu is just a very very simple menu, it took me like 5 seconds to make it, so do not think that you can't improve on it!! Good Luck!!

[JacobHaug]

I know I have already designed something great for you, but I thought you might be more interested in this one, as I did a much better design on these buttons...here are the links…

http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/files/fla/menu.fla
http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/f...la/menu_mx.fla