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Animated Flash Dropdown Menu II: Making Content Clickable

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Assign an instance name to the movie clip containing the menu (if you haven’t already), then select the invisible movie clip controller and right-click to open the Actions pane. Use an on (rollOver) and a gotoAndPlay to direct Flash to play the menu movie clip from frame 2 when the mouse rolls over the invisible controller clip:

on (rollover) {
_root.rollovermenu.gotoAndPlay(2) ;
}

We’re not going to assign the rollout ActionScripts to this clip; we’ll have a separate clip and a separate script for that. The reason that we do it this way is so the ActionScripted clip doesn’t overlap and negate the clickable, linked areas of the menu – but since the controller clip’s area only covers the menu header, we don’t want it to have a rollout command because the menu needs to stay visible even when the mouse isn’t over the header.

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