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Drop Down (Tree) Menu V3
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Drop Down Menu V3 and Drop Down Tree Menu V3 are xml flash accordion menus featuring customized states, customized transitions and tweens. Here are all known issues for Drop Down Menu V3 and Drop Down Tree Menu V3, they should be similar, since basically it is the same component. If you have any questions that you think we should discuss here please let us know.
Item description from XML
(2008-01-21 - views: 8426)
Q: Can I use an attribute for each menu item in the xml file to store some description about the menu item ? Then can I read it with Flash and display it into a dynamic text field ?
A: The drop down menu gives access to the currently selected menu item through the onPress and onRelease events. The event handler function get an Object parameter (evt) and evt.item is the reference to the actual selected item. Any attributes you add in the xml file, to each item's xml node, will be added as parameters of the item.
So when you need to have a description for each menu item just add the description attribute in the xml file and access it from the onPress or onRelease event handlers with evt.item.description. The same goes if you would like to have a parameter that contains the current position in a Flash site, when a menu item is selected. Just add the position attribute in the item's xml node, in the xml file, and reference it from the onPress or onRelease event handler with evt.item.position. What you do next with those values, it's up to you. You could put them into a dynamic text field to display the description text. The next example does just that.
Files: DDTM_CurrentSelection.zip
So when you need to have a description for each menu item just add the description attribute in the xml file and access it from the onPress or onRelease event handlers with evt.item.description. The same goes if you would like to have a parameter that contains the current position in a Flash site, when a menu item is selected. Just add the position attribute in the item's xml node, in the xml file, and reference it from the onPress or onRelease event handler with evt.item.position. What you do next with those values, it's up to you. You could put them into a dynamic text field to display the description text. The next example does just that.
Files: DDTM_CurrentSelection.zip
User Comments
Adding Scrollbar
posted by negush on 2008-09-26
The component does not support scroll bars.
Adding HTML Tags
If I do this using the demo - the menu does not complete...anything with the tags does not show.
posted by Quoling on 2009-04-24
How would I edit the description to use HTML tags?If I do this using the demo - the menu does not complete...anything with the tags does not show.
Adding HTML Tags
posted by florodebat on 2009-04-27
The solution is to use the AS3 escape() method to escape the HTML text and then use the unescape() method when you want to use that value into your fla .
Show item on load
posted by ManOfHonor on 2010-03-04
Is it possible to show one item by default when movieclip is load (with AS2)? I want to show first item in dynamic text before user select any of items.
Show item on load
posted by florodebat on 2010-03-10
If you want to set the textfield to show the description of the first item but without clicking it, then you will have to use the component's getXMl() method in order to parse the xml which feeds the component and to take from it the description text. Of course you need to have extra AS skills in order to be able to achieve that. However a simple way would be to set the textfield to show the description of the first item by default.
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Is there any method to set the automatic scroll bar for Accordion (Tree) Menu V3?