Posted: October 19th, 2009 By: Devin Walker
Adobe Flash is great for making smooth dropdowns using masks and actionscript to programically tween in and out a menu movie clip. This tutorial requires minor programming skill and at least Adobe Flash CS3 to complete. Please let me know if you have any questions on it!
Don’t want to watch all this? Download the .FLA file and you’re all set!
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I’m a total N00B at web design, but I have 25+ years experience in print. Got handed a project for the City of Apopka, Florida to design and build a web site for their Economic Development Incentive Programs. I thought dropdown menus using CSS would be enough, but I didn’t like the look. After searching, I found your tutorial on YouTube. Great work, you talked a person who has zero, and I mean ZERO, experience in code and successfully talked him through this via a recording. And I can save this code ‘I wrote’ for future projects with just some minor tweeks in names and x and y values. Thanks LOADS.
Matt Koegler
8 Dec 09 at 12:54 am
@Matt Koegler
You’re welcome! I’m glad you could follow my tutorial. Now you can use that code on other projects! Thanks for checking out my site. I’m currently redesigning it, come back and check me out sometime!
Devin
Devin Walker
8 Dec 09 at 1:01 am
Hi…. I followed your drop down tutorial but wanted it to slide down when it was entered and slide back up when it was out. I did that using MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT. My problem is that the drop down also goes away when your mouse moves out. How can I keep the dropdown open so the user can choose one of the drop down options?
Thanks!
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Nancy Jones
10 Apr 10 at 3:38 pm