GLASS - xml dynamic horizontal menu

hi and thanks for your purchase and comment!

yes, it’s possible but not without editing the code in the fla, as the menu is designed to work mainly as a menu for html pages.

Please write me an e-mail, specifying what you need exactly (i.e: call a frame of the timeline for each button, or open a scene, etc…) and I will send you a modified version.

hi sandrog, thanks for your purchase!
That would be possible, you could try calling a javascript function this way:

<Item title="Button Name" link="javascript:yourjsfunction()"></Item>

this will call that js function once the button is pressed, not opening another page.

hi homemadebyx, thanks for your purchase!
if you look here you can see an example of an html page containing 3 instances of the menu.

With “nothing selected” you mean that none of the buttons is selected/highlighted?
If you don’t set the “active” flashvar then by default no button is selected (like in the first instance).

Anyway all the menu features are controlled by flashvars and xml only, so you should work only within these two fields (you can make for example each instance of the menu to load a different xml configuration file).

If you still have problems please write me an email so I can help you better.

hi Johan, thanks for your purchase!

To have characters like that it’s rather easy. You need to embed them in the swf.

- Open “Glass_HMenu.fla” with Flash
- In the application Library open the MENU ELEMENTS > BUTTON > menuButton movieclip
- There is a textfield here that hosts the buttons text. Click on it and in the properties panel click on the “Characters Embedding…” button
- Here you can select other characters subsets to include, other than the standard ones. Your characters should be contained in the subsets: “Basic Latin” and “Latin I” (or maybe even “Latin Extended A”, you need to check this). The more subsets you select here the bigger the final swf will become (so this is the reason why it’s not advisable to select all the possible characters if not really needed).

If you still have problems please send me an email.

hi pixelsoft,
sure, you just need to embed your special characters in the swf.
Please have a look at the comment above yours to see an explanation on how to embed a font in the menu.

Hi efeflash!

You can do that editing the fla:

• open the fla in Flash
• in the Library open the MENU ELEMENTS > BUTTON > menuButton movieclip
• you will see 2 layers: txt and gfx. Unlock the first one (txt) and select the text field
• change the text color here, from the properties panel
• save the fla and compile the swf again

Please remember to install the included font (Myriad Pro) in your system before compiling the swf (if you do not want to change it with another one).