Depth & Blur XML menu

whats the font being used? where can i get them?

hi, as motaki already asked i was wondering how to have one voice of the menu be on activestate as soon as i play the movie… is it possible?

Hi. is it possible to invert the effect (the blur) so that when the text is mouse-over’d that link alone blurs (but not to as great an extent as above).

So basically: I am looking for a menu to do the effect shown on http://www.thewolfmanmovie.com/ where it says ‘story’ and ‘images’.

Thanks!

SkyConstantine,

its called itc conduit. Any font shop sells it.

chuck

duranross,

depends on your skill level you get what you see in the preview.

chuck

beautyfool,

at line 53 add :

            if (i == 0) {
                activeMain = mainBtn;
                // tween color to active color
                var currColor = new Color(mainBtn.btnName);
                col = "0x"+currColor.getRGB().toString(16);
                var tweenColor:colorTrans = new colorTrans(mainBtn.btnName, colorSpeed);
                tweenColor.colorTween(activeColor, col);
            }

this will set the active state to home.

Hey Chuck,

This is a novice question,but your input would be appreciated. I loaded this swf into my main mc, and wanted to upon clicks of the menu btns, for my site section mcs to be loaded appropriately,however I am not sure as to if I could do that since the links are in a external xml file. If you can help me with this,I would be very grateful.

Thanks Eiro

Hi Chuck,

Its a great menu, i am trying to use it in a flash site. I am not sure what i missed but i get a 100% where the menu is and i get a couple errors. Hopefully you can steer me in the right direction

Thanks, Adam

The class or interface ‘colorTrans’ could not be loaded. var tweenColor2:colorTrans = new colorTrans(mainMenu[targetName3].btnName, colorSpeed);

Chuck,

I got the menu working but i cant seem to get it to go to a specific frame, what do i need to put in the xml to find and stop on a certain frame.

thanks, Adam

Hello, great menu. but please help… as my website loads from the intro page, it will be the blog page… so i need the menu item blog to be red, when the site loads…. then after just carry on as normal

thanks

paul

Hey Chuck First and foremost, a really cool menu but I have a question, I want to change the font, but can not find out. Can you help me with this?

Hi, I’d like to use the “target=_blank” for 1 link, the other links need to be “target=_self”. How can I combine these two options? Is there a way to define this in the xml file for each link instead of defining it for all links in the fla file?

thx for your support! katrien

Hi Chuck,

I downloaded this menu of yours (by the way, great work!!), but I was wondering if there’s a chance to use (maybe) flashvars in the html where I’m using the menu, to “activate” the buttons according to the page the user is visualizing?

I read your explanation to another member on how to “activate” the first button by default, wich was to add on line 53 the code:

if (i == 0) { activeMain = mainBtn; // tween color to active color var currColor = new Color(mainBtn.btnName); col = “0x”+currColor.getRGB().toString(16); var tweenColor:colorTrans = new colorTrans(mainBtn.btnName, colorSpeed); tweenColor.colorTween(activeColor, col); }

If it’s necessary, I don’t mind doing a menu for each page, just please let me how to activate each button (wuch piece of this code should I change?)...

(my menu has 7 links, I am still assembling the layout, but it can be seen here: http://caxomboservices.coresaocubo.pt/)

I look forward for your feecback! Thank you so much,

Ana

ok… I found out, I wasn’t sure but it was worth the shot, and it worked…

It’s just changing

to

...and so on for how many menu items we have.

The “bad” part of this is that we need a different .swf file for each page, but it works fine!

Thanks Chuck,

It might seem like I know what I’m talking about, but I really don’t =) I wouldn’t know how to implement flashvars on my own lol =)

I think something must be added to the actionscript, and then I can “call it” on the html file, right?

Maybe you could consider writing a help file to add to the download in the future =) I’m sure people would apreciate that!

For me and for now, things appear to be working fine (even if it isn’t the easier way, or the correct one) =)

Thank you so much on your input! I have to confess I never expected an answer so soon =)

Hello, great work, some questions:

1) Can this be coded in AS3 (i dont have any flash knowledge )? 2) Also, can it has 2nd lvl menu?

Big update, based on all the feedback I got.

Hey does this support drop-down? Also: can this be easily implemented into a wordpress theme?

Thanks!!

I placed the menu in my my html page, changed the names of the buttons in the xml file and changed the links, yet the buttons go nowhere. Every html file has the first button in yellow (your About). Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I have looked over the previous comments and it seems there may have been others with this issue.