Text menu with Thumbs appearing onRollover - HOW???

[xoandre]

I have a business project I created a simple concept for and I was wondering if anyone here knows what code to use for this functionality.

OK.

MAIN SCENE "Index":
a simple list of fity names "text" converted to Buttons. In the center of the page is a outlined box where a thumbnail will appear when a user rolls over the name. The button, when clicked, goes to and plays another scene that is just ONE FRAME with a STOP command. There is a back button on each scene (works perfectly) that takes you back to Index.

WHAT I NEED is the code to have the rollover event bring up the thumbnail for each individual name, as the thumbnails are photos of that person. Currently, I have just set the BUTTON of each name to INCLUDE a thumbnail by EDIT IN PLACE and placing the thumbnail in the center in relation to the name.

The problem with that is, when the user rolls over the center, it shows the thumbnails all at once.

HOW DO I WORK AROUND THIS???

What needs to be a movie?

--xoandre

[piratefish]

Hmmm... So are all the thumbnails in one movieclip? If so then you need to be sure to have put a stop() on each frame of the thumbnail movie clip.

The way I would do something like that is to make a movieclip with each and every person's picture/thumbnail as one movieclip, naming each frame as to the persons First Initial Middle Initial and last name (WJJohnson for me). Then have the buttons just say
on(rollOver){
_root.thumbnail.gotoAndStop("persons name");
}

Or you could write a function that does all that but passes the persons name into the function.

I'll make an example of how I would do it. If you could, replace all the people's photos with just blobs or something and then post your .fla on the site so we can take a look at it for ourselves.

[piratefish]

Okay, I think I have the BASIC idea of what you want. Take a look if you would like to. Otherwise please continue to give us insight to your problem.