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Drop-down menu

Hi.
Just discovered this awesome forum, and see that there´s plenty of talented peolpe here, hope someone will help me.
The last time i touched Flash was 4 years ago, but yesterday i decided to try fiddling around with it again. Started making a menu for a website some friends of mine wanted. It´s a drop down and i´ve only started out making the animation. The idea is to have several of these vertical drop-downs with categories and sub-choices.

The animation is working as it should but i can´t make the linking work. i kind of know what´s wrong, but i can´t think of a way to work around it. There´s an invisible layer for the mouse-over which is blocking the links from reacting to the mouse.

I have uploaded the .fla-file on another message board:
http://www.storedyret.com/cgi/ikonboard.cgi?s=dacb05cfb ... =16;t=29600;p=229636

if anyone can give help out it would be great!
I already got a complete solution for this in ActionScript, but i am not capable enough in ActionScript to be able to customize it.

The .fla-file is just a representation of what i want the menu to do. The graphic is not at all finished. Also i´d like the menu to continue vertically with more categories. Please someone help me!

Last edited by ameneon82, October 24th, 2006 10:39 PM (Edited 1 times)

why aren'y you just putting the link action on the invinsable mouseover? i'm at work and i don't have flash on this machine yet, so i can't open it right now, but if you've got an invisable layer for mouseover, logically, that should be a button.... just hit F9 and add

Code:

on(release) {
getURL("path/to/your/file);
}

edit: obviously replace path/to/file with the actuall path (or http:// url if it's external) to your link

Last edited by dereklapp, October 30th, 2006 10:04 PM (Edited 2 times)