Flash Help!

Hello,

I am trying to understand this Flash tutorial for creating a menu.
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/A...a-121/index.php

I am getting confused on page 2, after the MenuButton is created.

There is a lack of pictures on this tutorial, so I am confused.

Anyone help me out?

Thanks

Hi, I'm guessing you got to the bit after making the sub menu button, to do with placing the main menu button in a movie clip.

Another way to do what they talk about here is to open the library. Window->Library. On the top right corner of the library is an little icon. Left click it to open the library menu and choose to make a new movie. Call it PopMenu.

If your not automatically taken into edit the new movie just double click it in the library.

Now drag and drop the main menu button into here. The layer you just dropped the button onto is called Layer 1. Left click on the text and rename the layer to MenuButton. Now if you right click on the layer name you can choose "insert layer" (you didnt have to rename it to be able to do this).

You should see a new layer. Rename this one to "Frames and Actions" and then right click on this layer and choose insert layer. Call this one MenuItems.

They are probably in this order:

MenuItems
Frames and Actions
MenuButton

If you hold the left mouse button down on the MenuItems layer name you can drag it to below the MenuButton layer.

Now scroll the timeline so you can see frame 20. Left click on frame 20 for each layer and press F6. You should see frames from 1 to 20 filled now (at least with empty frames)

Now single left click the first frame on the Frames and Actions layer. Open the properties box (normally at the bottem of the screen) and in the frame name box enter "hidden".

Now open the actionscript editor (normally above the properties box) and type:

stop();

If you cant type then look through the top section of the commands on the left until you find stop(). Double click that to add it to the actionscript panel.

That's the end of page 2.

Yeah, I found a tutorial on the Flash web site. Was able to mod it to my needs.

Thanks for the reply, appreciate it