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Ok, looking for any kind of help I can find on this. I’m attempting to create drop down menus (like the ones at the top of blender.org) for a web page. I’m also animating the initial nav bar. Meaning, instead of the buttons being stationary (like blender.org), imagine them starting sort of bunched up on the right. Then, when the user mouses over them, the slide over to the left. Then, when they mouse over the individual regions, they get the drop down menu.

I’ve got the first animation set up and wrong properly (with a few bugs to fix to make it idiot proof), but I can’t get the buttons themselves to animate the drop down menu. If I place the button outside the initial animation, it animates the menu fine. This simply wont do.

Can anyone help with this in any way? Maybe even just pointing me towards a tutorial or something. I’ve been struggling with this for a while now, so any help is appreciated. Thanks guys and gals.
-Paul

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i think you should try to duplicat the buttons and make one without the drop down menu which will be used for animation and other one for the menu when it is loaded with the drop down menu.

it might also be because in the script there is comend that tells to go back to a frame or somthing like this so i would also check that.

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http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/count/3444
http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/flyoutmenu/flyoutmenus.html

these are two website with tutorial about these type of menu. I don’t know if they are going to help. I used the second one for my old website.

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Thanks the_one. I understand the tutorials (well not so much of the code in the first one), but my problem now is getting all that to work inside a movie clip. Thanks again for the leads.

-Paul