Such menu is the important navigation element of any website created using a flash technologies. It helps to simplify design, does it more attractive and also facilitates navigation on the website. The same buttons which can be as animated, and normal three-personnel in most cases are a flash menu. Let's consider an installation algorithm a flash menu on the example of work with the horizontal menu in Adobe Flash CS4.
It is required to you
- Adobe Flash CS4
Instruction
1. Create the new document, having selected the necessary sizes of a scene. In our case we will stop on standard sizes 550×400.
2. Draw shape for the menu, select and move to MovieClip where there will be all further work.
3. Depending on the number of buttons set the sizes of a shape. If each button in your menu differs in the text and a form, affect the discretion. If buttons should be same, it is the most convenient to finish initial shape, and already then to break it into components. After shape it is ready, break it into that quantity of parts which corresponds to the number of buttons. Then each part needs to be selected and converted into MovieClip.
4. Assign to each instance name button: for example, but1, but2, etc. Each of buttons have on the layer.
5. Here the most routine work begins: it is necessary to animate each button. Do not forget that at identical buttons of the menu animation of each button should be identical.
6. So, animation for buttons is ready. Further we write the code which will work with buttons. In MovieClip we create an empty layer, we add the received code to the menu and to the 1st shot.
7. After work on creation of the menu is ended, test the received menu. If all of you made correctly, then it will regularly work. Now its code can be inserted on the website into the place necessary to you.