Comments on: Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array

By: Boston Terrier

Boston Terrier — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:53:16 +0000

Thanks for the codes. It is so helpful with this array looping code tutorials.

By: luisyucra

luisyucra — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:20:10 +0000

thanks, very much.

good code

By: zè

zè — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:37:27 +0000

Hi, compliments for the optimal job. I would want to know how to connect menu’s buttons to some movieclip that are collocated on the stage. Sorry for my english and please help me!

By: VictorArias

VictorArias — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:43:56 +0000

My question is:

It’s a menu, probably to navigate.

How is programmed the actions of each button?

By: chetan

chetan — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:01:43 +0000

how to animate button to use As3?

By: Alain

Alain — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:18:50 +0000

Great menu,
how can I do to have the clicked button as inactive ? thanks…

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:16:13 +0000

Thanks Fraser, this was the exact thing I have been looking for the last three day.

Excellent! thanks for doing a tutorial on this topic. Very helpful.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:04 +0000

Ok so we need to build a Menu in Flash, lets hire someone for a ridiculous hourly wage, pffftt please.

Basic Menu, complicated code. AS3 is not for designers, that is all.

By: newton

newton — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:36:46 +0000

This is the most simple, clear and understandable Menu-AS3-Tutorial I found.
Thanks very much.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:48:40 +0000

Thank you for this well thought out tutorial!!!

I wish all programmers would comment like you. Kudos!

By: Tawhid

Tawhid — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:44:13 +0000

How can I change the text color while on Mouse_Over. I see you are changing the sprite only, what would be the best way to change the Text Format on Mouse Over to each Menu.

Thanks,

By: Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:29:15 +0000

Thanks Mikey! I recently updated the theme of this blog and never realized that the height of the code samples shrunk.

By: Kapitaine

Kapitaine — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:37:59 +0000

Hi this is a great site – consider it bookmarked! Your ActionScript 3 stuff is really helpful for me as I’m just learning and you keep things rather straightforward.

One thing I would recommend is to allow for a bigger area to display your example code…the textarea right now (at least in IE6) is very small and scrolling through a large amount of lines is tricky. Other than that the site is great!

Keep up the good work.

Thanks,
Mikey.

PS – Only using IE6 because I’m on a locked-down network.

By: karakul

karakul — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:15:25 +0000

Great thank’s!!!
I’ve spend several hour to find the menu quite simple and clear to use. Because I’m not a big expert in programing this tutorial suite’s me the best.

By: DMC

DMC — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:35:05 +0000

2 hours? You’re lucky, I’ve found this after 3 weeks of searching. Not even anything on Adobe livedocs.

Maybe someone can tell me why there is SO little documentation around, even for common things like this?

By: sun

sun — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:41:34 +0000

thank you for tutorial

By: Aris

Aris — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:06:04 +0000

ya, god, why does it have to be so hard to find something so simple >_<.. thanks a bunch Crosbie, works great

By: Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:11:17 +0000

Not at all.

By: KJ

KJ — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:54:12 +0000

It’s taken me at least 2 hours to find a decent tutorial on creating a navigation from an Array and finally I’ve found one that helped. Cheers! I’ve modified your code to work with multidimensional arrays, I hope you don’t mind.

By: Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:03:10 +0000

Hi CLS,

1) Create your animation on the timeline.
2) Add another layer and draw a play button in it. Select the button and hit F8. Choose Button.
3) Select the play button and look in the Properties panel (bottom of screen).
4) Type play_mc where you see Instance Name.
5) Create a new layer in the timeline. Click into the new layer and press F9 (Actions Panel).
6) Add the following code to the Actions panel:
play_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, playAnim);
function playAnim(event:MouseEvent):void {
play();
}
stop();

I emailed you my test file. LMK if you have any questions.