Creating Animated Pull-down Menus using Flash
Animated menus are integral parts of dynamic web design with Flash animation . Like the animated SWFs and Flash movies, animated pull-down menus enhance the aesthetic aspects of a website. There are simple ActionScript techniques, which can be used to create such pull-down menus. The ActionScript techniques use timeline control actions, frame labels, use of button event handlers, and motion tweens to create the animation in the menus.
For any designer working in flash web design in India or elsewhere, would like to divide the menu timeline into two states: closed and open. The first frame should have a stop action to keep the menu in the original closed position and the second frame of the Control Actions layer should contain a flag to indicate a frame label. The script should move the playback head back and forth between the open and closed state of the timeline and thereby animate open and closed action in the process. Next, the ResourcesGraphic movie clip timeline which is composed of a series of tween animations, should be used for each menu item, that fade in the text at the bottom of the menu.
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