Menus are the foundation for every website
and in this lesson we’re going to demonstrate a basic technique
for creating fly out menus in Flash 5. We’re going to work
with Frame Labels and GoTo actions to create these menus.
Step 1: Creating the menu items
Type
out some text or draw a shape to be the Menu button
Convert it to
a Button by selecting it
and clicking F8
Convert the Button you just created to a Movie
Clip by selecting it and
clicking F8
again and this time selecting Movie
Clip. This places the button
inside the Movie Clip. It's inside this Movie Clip where we're
going to create all the menu actions and sub menus.
Step 2: Organizing your layers and preparing
your menu
Create
6 new Layers by clicking the Insert
Layer button 6 times
Drag
one of the new, blank layers you just created to the very bottom
of the stacking order. The bottom layer needs to be blank for
now.
Name
your layers from top to bottom as follows: Actions,
Labels,
About,
Products,
Contact,
Main Menu,
and Invisible Button
Add
40 Frames to the movie by clicking at Frame
1 of the Actions
Layer and dragging down
to the bottom layer to select the frames and then click F5
to add the Frames
Create
Stop Actions at Frame 1
and Frame 22
of the Actions Layer
Create
a Frame Label
called Normal
at Frame 1 of the Labels Layer
and a Frame Label
called Over
at Frame10
of the Labels Layer
Create
a Keyframe (F6) at Frame
10 for the About,
Products,
and the Contact
Layers
Create
a button for each of the About,
Products,
and Contact Layers
and place each one at Frame 10
Align the 3 buttons using either your Arrow Keys or the Align Panel
We've added 4 New Movies to our
Flash 5 source files cd! These include detailed videos on:
1. Tell Target/With
2. Dynamic Text 1
3. Dynamic Text 2
4. Animated Fly Out menu Part 2
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About the CDROM:
These movies are the SAME content found in our Flash 5 tutorials, but
the quality is clearly better than the streaming, web-compressed format
we have online with Frame Rates up to 20 TIMES FASTER and CD-ROM quality
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