Navigation Again!

[wakkoguy]

Hey
first of all here is the link to my .fla

http://www.icelebration.org/studentz/33/index.fla

I am trying to make a navigation system where you click a button and all the buttons but the one you click move down and dim. But the dimmed buttons are still selectable and when the user clicks a dimmed button is plays a movie to bring the button that the user clicked up and the previous button down. I was wondering if there was a simpler way of doing it than I have been. I would like to be able to use IF statements to say if the about button = yes then play the movie clip where it moves it down. It's confusing if you can help that would be great

 

[oldnewbie]

Dead link! Regards,

 

[wakkoguy]

http://www.icelebration.org/studentz/330/index.fla

sorry bout that

 

[wangbar]

I don't think you're going to be able to do what you want with the movie set up as it is at the moment.

If you want to have individual control of each button's position and size then you'll have to separate them so that each one is its own movieclip, then you can use "if" statements etc to control their appearance.

As it is, with all the navigation in one clip and all done with overlapping tweens you can't have individual control of each button. Slainte

http://www.wangbar.co.uk

 

[wakkoguy]

hey

http://www.icelebration.org/studentz/330/index.fla

thanx again for your help!
i have seperated all the buttons into their own movies and layers. Now how can i do it so that when a button is clicked, the rest of the buttons move down, and while they are down there they can still be clicked. Once they are clicked that button moves up and the rest move down?

 

[wakkoguy]

I placed some actions in the MAbout movie clip using if statements but i'm still confused help!

 

[oldnewbie]

First you have a lot of duplicate labels in that .fla, you should take care of that...
But even after looking, once again, at your .fla, I still can't figure out what you want exactly.

.... Now how can i do it so that when a button is clicked, the rest of the buttons move down, and while they are down there they can still be clicked. Once they are clicked that button moves up and the rest move down?...

A lot of confusion in the above. You say the rest of the buttons should move down, but your about button now moves up. You also say they should remain clickable! What? All stacked up one on top of the other?

You really have to clear things up, before anybody can help you further!

Regards,

 

[wakkoguy]

Hey
sorry bout that, was in a rush to get it typed in
what do you mean by duplicate labels?
here is what i would like to do
1. as you see the about button moves up when clicked, that is correct. when a button gets clicked it should play (A)Up, (L)Up etc
2. all other buttons should move down (this is from the first page they see) for example, if the links buttons is clicked, it should move up (or play mc AUp) and home, about, stuff, pics, and staff should all move down (they should play the (letter)Forward mc)
3. so now the links button is in the middle of the .swf and all the rest of the buttons have dimmed and moved down.
4. when the user clicks one of those dimmed buttons (let's say about) then the about switches places with the links button.
5. now the about button is moved up (mc AUp) and the links button is dimmed and moved down (mc LForward)

6. now when the home button is pressed all buttons should move to their original positions mc (letter)reverse

i hope you understand this! thank you very much for helping me out, i am slowly learning and this summer i will finally get a chance to sit down and learn some tutorials.