Flash drop down menu tutorial in ActionScript 3

[vydraf]

very understandable tutorial, tnx :)

[1DanKness1]

@bellemcky Yes really, you vagina.

[wallacedownload]

Hello, my name is Wallace Guedes! I live in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.

Pensei que nessa vídeo aula você iria ensinar começando do zero. Por favor, faça outro vídeo fazendo e explicando para que possamos acompanhar melhor! Obrigado!

[Shaws402]

The menu buttons have little blue glows around them, when i added more menu buttons i cant get the same blue glow.. is there anyway to add to new buttons, or subtract from old buttons?

[akatsukixxxx]

hey guys i need help T_____T

when i try to preview it itplays automatically and the roll over function doesn't work...

WHY????

[Shaws402]

@akatsukixxxx you may have the player on repeat

[akatsukixxxx]

hey guys i'm a total noob here. Just lik to ask, how to do that red flag thing in the labels layer? Plss. I need it asap.

[Hutzpahh]

Thanks

This is exactly what I was after.

[inc2000glw]

i want to be a little vagina too!!!

[hellicare08]

can i borrow your brain for a week? lol. 

[lancyboi4]

"Boom, frame 1.. Boom, frame 1, Boom, frame 1."

[niksvers]

hey..nice work..i've been banging my head on my laptop for 2 days till i saw this video

[fukinguitar]

boom frame 1 boom frame 1

[PlushieMe]

Nevermind, I've solved the linking issue. yay~ ^^ Thanks for the great tutorials!

[PlushieMe]

Hi, I need help in linking the sub buttons. I'm linking them using frame labels but they are unresponsive. The main buttons are linking fine though..

I'm using this script..

subBtn_1.addEventListener(Mous­eEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, GoHam);

function GoHam(event:MouseEvent):void {

gotoAndPlay("Ham");

}

Can anyone help a noob? ;-;

[Olympiacos]

BOOM! Frame 1

[shakaama]

just a question Adam.  for seo purposes is a pure css drop down menu better than flash? and if so is it a major or minor difference?

[flashbuilding]

@shakaama - CSS better for seo, and it si a pretty major difference. Most flash guys that know will use methods of indexing the links much like they get indexed in HTML CSS. But that is a hack so the best methods are normal HTML CSS navigation... with a touch of jQuery for awesome sauce.

[shakaama]

@flashbuilding thanks Adam. I have a potential client and I wanted to know really how to setup my 2nd presentation at their meeting pitching my design versus my marketing afterwards. thanks for the very speedy response too.

[FlashByDefault]

Hey, I have been proggramming with flash for some time now, but i can not seem to figure out an easy way to scroll threw text such as in a video game. I am not sure how to explain it. Just like any video game you play say, Pokemon ... When you press start a menu pops up and you can scroll with the arrow keys threw out the menu. Thats what i want to achieve. If you have a tutorial already up please inform me about this :)

Thanks,

[dcasuto]

this was great, man. and thanks for providing the fla. really helpful.

[dcasuto]

this was great, man. and thank for providing the fla. really helpful.

[Saboteamos]

tks dude, awesome!

[Magareyt]

Can you make a simple dropmenu,for us beginers ? Thank you.

[Resisted1337]

it goes away.

[vancechristopher]

you are a Demi God! You make it all seems so damm easy.

[ilialaliashvili]

cool tutorial

[TheRaw222]

how do i get this to dreamweaver

[wizzofwater101]

I know we were all instructed to go to your site to get the .fla file, but, just saying, this really wasn't much of a tutorial.

[goonsmile]

BOOM! frame 1 - haha love it

[hellome12345678999]

Can u make a vid showing how to make a page where you put your games on or animations?

[cutiethief]

can the buttons inside the movieclip goto any frames in the main timeline?

[sladoled77]

I don't understand some people how they can rate this as dislike video?!

[fourtheye111]

Is there a way you can explain the code that would correspond to targeting buttons like these to specific frame labels? This tutorial is awesome, but I need to know about making the buttons work. Thanks!

[TheDDangel]

Hello,

thank you very much for your tutorial! the drop down menu which I build looks great! The only problem it that my main menu it's perfectly working, but the submenu it isn't at all, and I'm using the same code for both and every button has an instance name! Some suggestion? :(

[TheDDangel]

Hello,

thank you very much for your tutorial! the drop down menu which I build looks great! The only problem it that my main menu it's perfectly working, but the submenu it isn't at all, and I'm using the same code for both and every button has an instance name! Some suggestion? :(

[HANGER187]

I love you

[Jemsy90]

Thank you for a great and simple tut!

[nielsm5]

boom frame 1

[ralph262]

frommexico: why not better use fireworks ,, it has quick pop up menus,( or dropdown menus ) whatever you call it.

and you could make some nice effects when mouse rolls over in less than 1 min you could make as much as dropdown menus as you want with effects on. flash color quality vs fireworks color quality therrs a remarcable diference flash beat fireworks in quality, but flash cant beat the quickness of fireworks when it comes to create dropdown menus..

[watxulookinat]

hi! nice tut...i'm a newbie and i'm having a problem with the invisible clip... it just don't work...do you know what it can be? thanks!

[watxulookinat]

hey! nice tut! i'm a flash newbie too and i'm having a problem with the invisible clip... it just doesn't work... :S do you know what can be the problem? thanks!

[drm107]

function goclickarea(evt:Event):void {  gotoAndPlay("down1");

}

slack.addEventListener(MouseEv­ent.ROLL_OVER,goclickarea);

function goempresa(evt:Event):void { gotoAndPlay("empresa");

}

empresa.addEventListener(Mouse­Event.CLICK,goempresa);

[drm107]

hey, I followed your instructions and was able to make this scroll bar.. Than I applied it to my site i am making on flash. I have my layout (made it myself) with your buttons.. I linked the buttons to other keyframes in the same timeline.. to make diferent pages. When i preview, the first button link works, but when i just roll mouse over other tabs and go back to first button, it doesnt work anymore.. and no other link works at any point. Id appreciate your expert help. Thanks

[dlusack]

mate this is mint its solved one of the major probems in my project thanx. im trying to make an interactive tween and i made the shape dragable. but how can you make an interactive shape tween?

[Never1Next]

I'm not a little vagina ;'(

[pab2000k]

@Never1Next You a guy?

[pab2000k]

@Never1Next this guy has no life...

[Gnoevina]

awesome stuff thank you

[keydesigns]

could some one tell me about actions on dropdown buttons please

[LaytheX]

could someone tell me how to access the script code of each layer?

please and thanks in advance.

[aleeejandro]

Press F9 in the frame with the little a

[RP4EVR]

Love the way you did this tutorial. Like the others you need to figure out the process for yourself especially when your designing your very own buttons.

[buildingket]

boom! frame 1 :D

[kilerlol]

Can you make the menu so it will come down and remain down when you click on it

[greasymullet2002]

you're a legend thank you

[TheGrimsdale]

"All the little vaginas...!"

It's my new favourite phrase.

Love your tutorials. Migrating to AS3 at the moment from AS2 and you've been a great help, so cheers!

[highwind8124]

I love the intro message.

[cmf41873]

thanks bro! I went to the site and downloaded the buttons in less than a minute.

[stopgoproductions]

thank but im woundering how when you add links to the sub menu like:

function sub1Btn1Click(event:MouseEvent­):void {

gotoAndStop("home")}

sub1Btn1.addEventListener(Mous­eEvent.CLICK, sub1Btn1Click);

sub1btn1 been the home oe the first drop down menu

it works fine but then when you got off it then it goes to frame 1 i.e. home it wont stay on the selected frame when you scroll off the dropdown menu

is there a way to change the invisible layer to got to the layer just clicked?

thanks

[jaiasa4]

I think I'm in love. Thanks for the tutorial!!!

[redsnow123456]

me too

let me mak love with

if u r a girl sure u bitch

[marcocortesivideo]

Thank you from Italy! Your tutorial has been so useful! Thank you very very much! I can't tell you how much I have appreciated it! You're great!

[animmate]

Thank you so much Adam, your lessons are incredibly helpful.

[cartoonking3]

you know what you should like be like my personal little programmer for my art community website that im planning to create for next year ,of when i take web design class in my senior year :) sounds like a good idea right??!

[chi8cago]

brillant thanks for the tutorial....i never realized that the mask is the key.

[mhilkzcute]

hi!

this tutorial was very helpful to me but there's something wrong when i did my own drop down menu. Here's the situation, all the buttons are properly working when clicked(they are linked properly) but the submenu of my other button does not work properly.

function click_his(event:MouseEvent):vo­id {

var click_1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("history.html");

navigateToURL(click_1,"_self")­;

}

history.addEventListener(Mouse­Event.CLICK, click_his);

IDK if my prob is on the masking.pls help

[emiliyaveitch]

you have a space in the middle of the word "void" , it wont work like that

[Miachia916]

Hey maybe I'm doing something wrong but there aren't any action codes in my actions...Am I doing something wrong? it seems to be blank.

[Miachia916]

i love all of your tutorials! but I wish more of them were in HD so it was a clear image...its hard to see everything you are doing.

[flashbuilding]

Thanks!!!

I know... it stinks... all of my future vids will be though... I did not catch on to the new HD and HQ formats til Jan 09... they switched in November 08 and I was snoozing for two months uploading crappy vids... oh well... they also allow me more than 10 minutes now too... so I can go more in depth... and build from scratch.

[simarij]

@flashbuilding Great vid, so thankful!

but please, how can I assign a button to a main timeline of a project after custmizing your menu!! I really couldn't find it (and I don(t want to use URL for the moment)

THANKS AGAIN ;)

[simarij]

@flashbuilding Great vid, so thankful!

but please, how can I assign a button to a main timeline of a project after custumizing your menu!! I really couldn't find it (and I don(t want to use URL for the moment)

THANKS AGAIN ;)

[bigdeveloper]

I'm a very new flash developer, and am teaching myself from webwizards guide to flash, flash bible and tutorials such as this one. Thank you so much! Even for a newbie like me, I found the tutorial pretty easy to follow, though I'm probably going to play it like 3 or 4 more times to make sure I got it.

thanks again

[flashbuilding]

no sweat... thanks for the feedback! And I always enjoy seeing what people have done with the files.

[Jonz66]

The invisible button is a nice workaround but it doesn't work 100% of the time if the users move the cursor too fast.

[flashbuilding]

Go click the link in the video description and play with mine... maybe you broke yours in setting up.

[Jonz66]

I'm actually doing it on your example...

[flashbuilding]

I am trying my best to make it break functionality but it wont. What is your method of getting it to break?

[Jonz66]

hmm, I think I found the problem. It actually happen if you try very hard and fast on your web preview, but my problem I had was with the Flash internal previewer was more accute (ctrl+enter), which seems to react slower to the listeners. Your example is working fine on the web.

[flashbuilding]

Good cuz Im so anal that I would have had to fix it all up. As long as it works good there, im cool... good lookin' out though

[curvysmile]

Thanks for these awesome tutorials!

In AS2 everything worked. But I'm trying to covert over to AS3.

I couldn't quite get the tutorial above to work like I wanted. My submenu flickered on rollOver. So now, I'm using your tutorial on animated buttons & find it more compatible with what I'm trying to accomplish.

But I really need the animations for my MC btns to be on the same timeline. When I use rollOver on any 1 button, I want to control the animation of all 7 MC buttons simultaneously.

[flashcs4professional]

Didnt shows me nothing or i miss somthing, you are just explaining how did it is finish not how to do it!

[tegid699]

did I miss something? you didnt show how to do it!!!

[Eviltim2]

Is it possible to do a disjointed rollover off of the drop down?

[konkretebruh]

Thanks alot man this is alot easier than wat i was doing before

[berthely]

thanks alot

[superjets]

Boom ! frame one !

[blandtimo]

Thanks for that tutorial,

I am just wondering how to go about adding another tier of menu rollout from the sub menu. For example, a horizontal rollout from, say, the testimonials tab shown in the tutorial.

[flashbuilding]

That button in the pull down list would have to be it's own movieclip with mask animation inside of it that would reveal new tier to the right when mouse goes over it.

[blandtimo]

thanks, I had already figured this much out, I am just unsure how to code it in AS.3 so that the MC within plays when a rollover occurs in the parent MC. I have been looking though your profile tutorials which have been helpful, but I am still unsure. Total beginner sorry.

[woodstock16]

Thanks a lot!

I did flash cs3 when I was in school but this tutorial helped me to refresh my memories and it saved me a lot a times!

Koodos!

[flashbuilding]

Cool man, glad you like!

[DunkelSchatzi]

thanks dude - really helped me out moving from AS2 to AS3. the site's really nice too! keep it up!

[flashbuilding]

Thanks partner!

[kanersan]

if you to the side, it goes away

if you go up, it goes away

if you roll out, boom frame 1

roll out, boom frame 1

:D I think I get it

[flashbuilding]

boom... lol I hear ya!

[involved1984]

Thanks for the tut

I'm just wondering, How do you open the compiled swf directly in the browser. I mean what keys do you use instead of CTRL+ENTER?

[flashbuilding]

No sweat, F12 is usually the hotkey set for publishing the HTML page.

You can also press Edit >> Keyboard Shortcuts >> to see them all.

[tut54as]

it`s cool but i can't open it in Macromedia flash 8 some suggestions

[flashbuilding]

It is a Flash 9 CS3 file, it wont open in version 8. All of my FLA files are for 9 CS3. Sorry my friend.

The video may help you set up in Flash 8, It is more logic than code really.

[tut54as]

oohh ok thanks anyway;

hey i've visited your web site and it`s cool

you should put in it some javascript code

don't you think

[flashbuilding]

Thanks! I want to start adding javascript soon! Would you be interested in contributing to get your name and business out there?

[saintfury12345]

how do you get actionscript?

[flashbuilding]

Get flash from adobe.

[tut54as]

no problem

i'm Nestor and i am studying programming

and yes i would like to help U !!!

[flashbuilding]

OK, I will make the site allow for others to post original or open source tutorials not there yet.

[wokani]

Nice tutorial, but how do u link these buttons to a URL in ActionScript 3?

[flashbuilding]

In the free FLA there is example code for going to URL. Assign button names and code them out.

[flashbuilding]

6 mins 30 secs I show you that exact code. Did you watch the video? Go get the FLA.

[ColdWarKiller]

hey man can i use the free file in my website?

[flashbuilding]

Sure thing, feel free...

[ColdWarKiller]

thanks man

[thumpinrascal]

Wicked mate, thanks for all your shizzle.

[flashbuilding]

No sweat, thanks thumpin...