Strech menu

[pom]

This menu was first created by Den Ivanov. I merely updated his code, which was Flash 4 I believe, and therefore very hard to read, not to mention customize.

I added a crappy tween effect just to demonstrate how to do it :P

[gonzales]

awesome!
thanks a lot pom.

[Neil]

Good stuff man :hugegrin:

[Coppertop]

funky.

[ramo_integ]

hey nice menu...how would i make it link to my external swf????

[pom]

It's in the code. In the onPress part :)

[mlk]

Hey dude, can you post a swf/fla as well, for those of us who are stuck behind the school's unzicapable macs ?

cheerio

the other frogman

[ramo_integ]

i see the onpress part but it says but_pressed=0 .... how can i set it to go to a specific url for each button?? i dont see that at all..can someone post that section with the code ??

[iloveitaly]

Hey dude, can you post a swf/fla as well, for those of us who are stuck behind the school's unzicapable macs ?

cheerio

the other frogman
Its in zip format... Macs open zip format natively...

[ramo_integ]

i still cant figure out how to make this link to my swfs???? can someone please post the section with the code added to it so can see exactly what i need to put in????

i've been trying to figure it out but i cant ..please help!

[ramo_integ]

?anyone?

[SlowRoasted]

sweet man, i love that effect;)

[pom]

?anyone?You were right, it wasn't in the code, sorry about that: _mc.onRollOut = _mc.onDragOut = function () {
but_pressed = 0 ;
this.gotoAndPlay("back") ;
} ;
_mc.onPress = function () {
trace ("There") ;
} ;
// ...

[ramo_integ]

thanks...but that's still not clear to me....that doesnt seem to tell which one of the buttons has been pressed..and how would i get it to open my swf's in a container?

[starfarm]

Hey Pom

This is great!! But could anybody help me how to load the content from xml??

I tried to do this:

texts = ["About me", "Portfolio", "Pom rocks", "Contact me", "Hello World"] ;

I replaced this array with an array created from my xmldoc, so it looks like this:

texts = head[i];

I know it it wrong, because my comp. ****s up...but I don't know what's wrong

Anybody??

[gonzolo]

try this ;)

texts = head.childNodes[i]

[Sharp161]

I love this effect but also wld like to know how to load external swf into each container instead of just text? Is that possible?

[Lujerker]

Nice. :D

[chrisclick]

^ this was posted in 2004

I have not heard of pom since...

[hybrid101]

^same, old thread, good code, no pom anywhere. last activity, 10/12/06

[Sharp161]

Ah didnt realise this was so old. I found it usin search.

Any chance any of of you guys can help me? still dying to know how to load external swf's into it really wanna use this for a uni project and only have a few days left :(

[terryjippo]

Sharp161, I've uploaded a fix so that it loads external swfs into each menu item, using the name of the title, e.g. About will load About.swf. Hope this helps.

The files you need are: http://www.billyfrost.plus.com/kirupa/stretch-menu-external-swfs.zip

[Sharp161]

Ahh thats brilliant thank you so much. Realy apreciate it :)

1 more question tho..

When i changed the size of the cell on mouse over from 90 to a greater value instead of just extending the cell size it also stretches the text and the swf inside the cell. Is there a way to stop this so the swf stays the same size?

[terryjippo]

Basically the external swf 'loadinto' movieclip sits within the menu item instance ('p'), and the scaling actionscript therefore will affect everything within that movieclip.

I've come up with a workaround -I've put the 'loadinto' mc into another movieclip named 'rescaler' (within the 'p' mc), and then re-set the width value to 'lowscale', which is the start width. You can play around with this to suit your needs.

www.billyfrost.plus.com/kirupa/strech_menu_bfv2.zip (http://www.billyfrost.plus.com/kirupa/strech_menu_bfv2.zip)