Menus and ActionScript
In today's tutorial we take a look at how we can write ActionScript to handle the user clicking on menu items. We get more familiar with the switch() language construct and see how Event Listeners work in Flash. This tutorial builds on the previous weeks' tutorial on building menus with the MenuBar component, but if's not mandatory to have read that - the completed FLA from last week is available as a download for you to start working with.
| User Level: | Beginner |
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| Product: | Flash MX |
| Technologies: | Flash |
| Number Of Pages: | 8 |
Table of Content:
- Handling menu clicks
- Cleverising the code
Allan Kent
Allan comes from Cape Town, South Africa. He has been implicated in writing for several WROX, glasshaus, Wiley and Apress publications, generally in the 'cool stuff that PHP can do' sections.
You can catch up with him at his website http://www.mediafrenzy.co.za.
User Reviews
Total of 3 reviewsWhat????
Written by chris popovic on March 4, 2007I've walked through this tutorial a dozen times. I was hoping to find simple actionscript so that I could simply navigate to a new frame. Unless I'm missing it completely, this tutorial doesn't do this. WTF? I'm more confused than when I started.
RE: Not thorough enough
Written by Bert Saper on October 30, 2004A reasonable person would expect a tutorial on menus to show the user how TO LINK the menus, either to Flash frames, scenes, labels, or HTML URLs. Instead, we get an unnecessary and advanced digression into Case and Switch statements. Is it possible ...
Not thorough enough
Written by Andrew Turner on May 13, 2004This is my SECOND review (first one was deleted). This tutorial is not complete. It shows no real-world examples of how to use the code. Also, it's rated at 'beginner' when it should be more in the intermediate-advanced level. Give us what we ...
