Hello, everyone. I'm learning flash by reading some manuals, but I'm running into some problems with a project that I'm trying to do.
What I'm basically trying to make is a navigation bar that will sit on the left side of the page. This is simple enough, but I want a specific effect that's not seeming to work out the way I want it to after several attempts.
What I'd like is to have a 'category' button that on the mouseover will expand outward to the right and then a list of items within that category will slide out downward from it.
Where I'm having difficulty is in two things:
First, when the button expands I can change the graphic easily, but the shape of the "hit" state needs to change as well so that the button doesn't collapse when the user goes to pick an item from the list. I have no idea how to accomplish this.
Secondly, I've noticed that the animation that I have set to execute on the mouseover plays fine, and clicking the button is fine, but when I release the button the animation replays. What I want it to do is basically remain expanded as long as the mouse is over it regardless of clicking and contract nicely instead of just plain "snapping" back to the normal state when the mouse leaves.
I'm beginning to think that maybe I need to learn a lot of AS and use a movie-clip instead of a button???
Anyways, I'll keep searching through my documentation and stay on this. Any advice or shared experience would be greatly appreciated. I really want to learn all there is to learn about Flash and Action Script, so I'm more than willing to experiment and more than willing to learn.
Thank you for reading this, and thanks in advance for any response.
What I'm basically trying to make is a navigation bar that will sit on the left side of the page. This is simple enough, but I want a specific effect that's not seeming to work out the way I want it to after several attempts.
What I'd like is to have a 'category' button that on the mouseover will expand outward to the right and then a list of items within that category will slide out downward from it.
Where I'm having difficulty is in two things:
First, when the button expands I can change the graphic easily, but the shape of the "hit" state needs to change as well so that the button doesn't collapse when the user goes to pick an item from the list. I have no idea how to accomplish this.
Secondly, I've noticed that the animation that I have set to execute on the mouseover plays fine, and clicking the button is fine, but when I release the button the animation replays. What I want it to do is basically remain expanded as long as the mouse is over it regardless of clicking and contract nicely instead of just plain "snapping" back to the normal state when the mouse leaves.
I'm beginning to think that maybe I need to learn a lot of AS and use a movie-clip instead of a button???
Anyways, I'll keep searching through my documentation and stay on this. Any advice or shared experience would be greatly appreciated. I really want to learn all there is to learn about Flash and Action Script, so I'm more than willing to experiment and more than willing to learn.
Thank you for reading this, and thanks in advance for any response.
