Drop down menu questions

[bkohsl]

Hello.

I managed to create a drop down menu as a movie clip in Flash MX 2004. But I have a couple of questions.

1) Is there a way to do a drop down menu, without it being a movieclip? IE, it's a dropdown menu on a scene, not a movieclip of a dropdown menu that is placed in a scene?

2) Is there a way for a the buttons in a dropdown movieclip to target scenes? I have tried the usual actionscripts for buttons, but it leads me nowhere. And all the tutorials I see just lead me to a specific frame of a movie, which is not what I want. I want to target a scene with the buttons, not frames of a movieclip.

Any and all help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Gibberish]

1. This would be pointless as the dropdown will only be accessible in actionscript if it’s a movieclip.

2. Scenes are frames. When you export your swf it has one huge timeline of all scenes. If you label frame one of your scene you can call that through gotoAndPlay();. Scenes are really nothing but a way to seperate information on the development side and should not be targeted as real entities in the end result. Use frames or frame labels.

[bkohsl]

Thank you for the explanation, but it's still posing problems for me.

OK, so I created a drop down menu movieclip. The dropdown functions work fine, when placed as a movieclip in the main movie.

But the secondary buttons still will not lead me to a specific frame (with frame label) on my main movie (called index). An example of the coding on one of the buttons:



on (release) {
//Movieclip GotoAndStop Behavior
index.gotoAndStop("wp_ts");
//End Behavior

}



There is a frame with a frame label called wp_ts on then main movie. How do I get this seconday dropdown menu button to go to this specific frame on the main movie?

I used this:



on (release) {
//Movieclip GotoAndStop Behavior
this.gotoAndStop("wp_ts");
//End Behavior

}



but I think it just targets frames of that dropdown menu movieclip, which of course, doesn't contain the content I want.

Any and all help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Gibberish]

is index a movieclip in your main movie or is index the main movie itself? As in index.swf.

If it is the latter then use:
on (release) {
//Movieclip GotoAndStop Behavior
_root.gotoAndStop("wp_ts");
//End Behavior

}

If the first then use:
on (release) {
//Movieclip GotoAndStop Behavior
_root.index.gotoAndStop("wp_ts");
//End Behavior

}

[bkohsl]

That was it (the latter). Of course, I then had to go in and re-script all the buttons, but it works now. Thanks a million.