Set on top of that is another movie clip containing the main title text and the help navigation menu. However, this time I used invisible hotspot movie clips to create clickable areas for the menu, and assigned the following script:
on (release) {
_root.base.helptabls.helpnavi.swapDepths(5) ;
_root.base.helptabs.canvashelp.swapDepths.(4) ;
}
This brings the selected help movie clip up to a depth of 4, then drags the navigation movie clip to one depth above it, at 5. You can use the same script on each clickable option, and just change the name of the help file’s movie clip to bring up the appropriate one.
Stay tuned for the next installment, in which we tackle the brush tool. You can also check out the finished application to see the implementation of the functions that we’ve discussed in this lesson, now that you’ve a more detailed understanding of how they work.
