need sliding menu that can dissapear inside frame, pls help!
by tom kerrigan
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Mar 3, 2009 at 10:46:38 pm
hey everyone, I've been trying desperatley to get a scrolling menu come in from the side of the screen when you hover over it with the mouse. Now i know there are a few guides out there but none of them are any good for me as I'm looking to have it come from an 'imaginary' screen edge, inside the actual director canvas. (basically a box in a box, and i want it to hide itself as it goes behind the inner frame. I cant just play with heirarchies, at least not without almost rebuilding the whole thing
is there some kind of script that puts up what i can only think to describe as an 'invisibility box' that hides only that one sprite as it passes underneath it.
hope you can help,
tom
PS: i've only been using director for about a week in a uni project so my understanding is rather limited, any fancy acronyms may get lost in translation :P
Re: need sliding menu that can dissapear inside frame, pls help! by Brodd Nesset on Mar 6, 2009 at 1:00:08 pm
I tend to always use a MIAW for this; "Movie in a window".
It means that you create the menu as a separate Director movie. I.e. you create amovie the size of the frame, and let the text slide off its Stage. Then you use the MIAW specific Lingo like 'Tell the Stage' etc. for navigation. Take it easy - it's pretty easy!
Back in the main movie (the actual content), you must set the coordinates for where you want the manu to appear. Nothing outside the menu movei Stage will appear; i.e. the text will appear to slide into air. You launch the menu with 'open window "menu" ' etc. - and close it.
Check out MIAW in Director Help.
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