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

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.

By: CLS

CLS — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:15:22 +0000

I have been looking for help in making a single play button that I would use to play my Flash animation. I am extremly new to Actionscript and am still learning what certain things mean. Is there anyway anyone can help me understand how to create a play button that would actually link to the rest of my animation?
Thank you,
CLS

By: Roustalski

Roustalski — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:17:55 +0000

Thanks for this example.

By: Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:19:09 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Chris. I have added the Flash movies for my tutorials throughout the site.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:21:07 +0000

Hi, thanks for this tutorial code. Its nicely formatted and easy to understand. It would be even nicer if you could include the completed Flash Object on the page as an example of how it will look.