dropdown menu for continual motion movie

[dariwe]

I am building an application demo and the movie is in constant motion down the main timeline. There is a toolbar of options that allow the user to go to the next demo, home etc. On that toolbar, I want one of the buttons to be a pop-up menu. It needs to pause the movie keeping the current frame as the background, pop up a menu that will allow the user to navigate to different movies and if need be allow the user to continue on with the current movie from the point where it was paused.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[davdesign]

to pause the movie the only actions you would need on the button (if it were located on the main timeline) would be:


on (rollOver) {
stop ();
}
on (rollOut) {
play ();
}


obviously you would change the 'rollover/out' to suit. If you have movie-clips buzzing about elsewhere and you wanted them to pause also you would give the button the actions:


on (rollOver) {
stop ();
with (_.root.the-route-to-your-clip) {
stop ();
}
}
on (rollOut) {
with (_.root.the-route-to-your-clip) {
play ();
}
play ();
}




need more?
dave
davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

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[davdesign]

Forget the above....slight typo (plus long-winded, reactionary reply).

to pause the movie the only actions you would need on the button would be:


on (rollOver) {
_root.stop ();
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.play ();
}


obviously you would change the 'rollover/out' to suit. If you have movie-clips buzzing about elsewhere and you wanted them to pause also you would give the button the actions:


on (rollOver) {
_root.stop ();
_root.the-route-to-your-clip.stop();
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.play ();
_root.the-route-to-your-clip.play();
}


dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

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