Director @ Night

Menus and submenus

February 15th, 2006

A question was brought up in the Macromedia forums related to menus with submenus, and how would one could make one that functioned similar to the ones at the top of the forums.

I would like to create a sub-navigation that looks something like this:

Nav1 | Nav2 | Nav3
sub1 | sub2 | sub3

Is it possible to hide the sub-navigation until one of the main navigation(Nav2) links is rolled over? Can I have it stay there until another main navigation link is hit or when the user is taken to another frame?

There are a lot of ways to create menus, ranging from using Flash, imaging lingo, and dynamically generated sprites. In the forum JB basically answered the question with the very basic approach that allows for very quick development of this sort of thing with just a few lines of code.

You can download a sample file that was done in DirMX 2004.
Source for menu_demo.dir

There is also an article on Director Online related to menus, and using One Sprite Widgets at LingoWorkshop can make complex menus.

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