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<channel><title><![CDATA[ActionScript.org Flash, Flex and ActionScript Resources - Comments for article: Creating a Scrolling menu]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.actionscript.org/resources]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>general.redirect@gmail.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:36:04 CST</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment1084</link><description><![CDATA[the code is incomplete, the var bxi is set but never used, i may be able to  figure it out but i feel lost <br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Brian Mehrman at 2:03 am, Sat 3rd Mar 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Brian Mehrman)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:03:26 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment1084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #2 (Reply to Comment #1)]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12971</link><description><![CDATA[You are right, sorry-it wasn't my fault. Now 200 years later I don't have the source... go figure! Please get it from the FLA. 

Regards<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by The author at 3:29 pm, Tue 5th May 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (The author)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 May 2009 15:29:02 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #3]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment1229</link><description><![CDATA[The bxi is used, fyi. It is used within the "directMenu()" function an allows you to adjust the speed of the scrolling menu. If it weren't complete, why did it work for me?<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Ryan Ticer at 2:08 am, Thu 8th Mar 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Ryan Ticer)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:08:28 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #4]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment1480</link><description><![CDATA[Well guys I got a totally different problem

I kept receiving this message 
//**Error** Symbol=menu, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 17: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
     on (rollOver) {

**Error** Symbol=menu, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 21: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
     on (rollOut, dragOut) {

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 	 Reported Errors: 2//

I am on Flash 8 professional. Am I a dunce or was the code really not legitimate. As a result, I could not even see the first reaction in the tested movie, cos I could not test it<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Esther Maschke at 9:17 am, Fri 16th Mar 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Esther Maschke)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:17:18 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment1480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #5]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment2115</link><description><![CDATA[You have put button events on the main timeline, you need to put those events directly to the button... hence you get an error.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by  at 12:10 pm, Fri 6th Apr 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com ()</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:10:03 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment2115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #6]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment2731</link><description><![CDATA[How about if you want to customize each button and make each one of them access different items/menus/options..?<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Joel at 4:37 pm, Mon 30th Apr 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Joel)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:54 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment2731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #7]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment4144</link><description><![CDATA[I love the look your technique delivers but how would i ad functionality to the rollover buttons generated randomly?<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by armyant at 9:25 am, Fri 22nd Jun 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (armyant)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:25:27 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment4144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #8]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment4914</link><description><![CDATA[Sorry for the prolonged delay, but I'm back. I guess you could employ the mouse click event, get the coordinates of the mouse cursor, scan each button object and see if the mouse cursor coord's were within the area of a given button - using looping and condition. When a winner is found, you can eval a function label convention prefix with an incremented value, or something like that, and execute an already defined associated function, which would have the role of a event handler.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Lazaro at 11:13 am, Tue 24th Jul 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Lazaro)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:13:28 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment4914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #9]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment7408</link><description><![CDATA[brian, i know what you mean, i had the same problem. on testing the swf, menu won't move ! i searched on the sample file, and what is missing is a clipEvent applied to  the menu movieClip in the _root timeline. get the .fla for the code

cheers !<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by juliana at 10:03 pm, Thu 8th Nov 2007)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (juliana)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:03:09 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment7408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #10]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12365</link><description><![CDATA[Very Nice tutorial.
It would be appreciated if you can further explain how to link each scrolling button to navigate to another page. I rated this tutorial Excellent.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by ramakrishna at 6:50 pm, Fri 5th Dec 2008)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (ramakrishna)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:50:25 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #11]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12491</link><description><![CDATA[Could you explain what changes would need to be done exactly to make this scroll vertically instead?<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Mannie at 8:36 pm, Wed 7th Jan 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Mannie)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:36:14 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #12 (Reply to Comment #11)]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12970</link><description><![CDATA[Yes. Modify the source so that all X's are Y's and all widths are heights. LOL I hope this helps.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by The author at 3:27 pm, Tue 5th May 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (The author)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 May 2009 15:27:54 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #13]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12496</link><description><![CDATA[This is really useless if you need to add events and create your own button links etc<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by sphynx at 6:19 pm, Fri 9th Jan 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (sphynx)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:19:42 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #14 (Reply to Comment #13)]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12968</link><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, it's really useless if there aren't any events.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by The author at 3:15 pm, Tue 5th May 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (The author)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 May 2009 15:15:46 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #15]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12503</link><description><![CDATA[I would like to know how to add links to these buttons. thanx in advance!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Hugo at 9:57 am, Tue 13th Jan 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Hugo)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:57:03 CST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #16 (Reply to Comment #15)]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12969</link><description><![CDATA[there is a variable named "tmi" which stands for "total movie instances" which is the number of duplicates (i.e. buttons) that will be generated. Now say you had an array of Strings (e.g. "Home", "Photos", "Contacts"), you could get the length and use it instead of tmi, use the String at the given index for the button text and the index (or the actual reference) to associate a link (which could be implemented in a different array) or you can use the actual String text as a GET parameter for a common page.

The point is that the move will be smaller than if you were to create 200 buttons for the navigation or w/e you're employing it for. Lastly, there are many ways you can detect and link the buttons, I used provided two ideas (not necessarily the most efficient either) ways. Good luck.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by The author at 3:24 pm, Tue 5th May 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (The author)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 May 2009 15:24:08 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment12969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #17 (Reply to Comment #15)]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13399</link><description><![CDATA[on(release){
getURL("type your url here","_blank");
}

// select the button for which you want to add a link, click f9 and you will get an action script window, type the above code there and test the movie,,,I am sure it will work.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by reddy at 11:29 pm, Sun 30th Aug 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (reddy)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:29:18 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #18]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13084</link><description><![CDATA[this is great but it doesnt seem to be fitting for AS3 ..<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by ronny at 7:26 am, Mon 8th Jun 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (ronny)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:26:09 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #19]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13248</link><description><![CDATA[how would i go about  constraining the movement of the buttons so that they dont go off the stage.???
Please i need desperate help. thank you<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by chris at 7:34 am, Fri 17th Jul 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (chris)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:34:01 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #20]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13364</link><description><![CDATA[I would also add to it is how to stop the scrolling once the mouse has 'entered' the 'frame' of each button; I noticed the scrolling continues even if i just let go of the mouse over a button-box. Other than those two things this is a very nice tutorial.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Ivon at 10:28 am, Thu 20th Aug 2009)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Ivon)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:28:35 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/538/1/Creating-a-Scrolling-menu/Page1.html#Comment13364</guid></item></channel></rss>