but the same structure, just the caption for the first you change for “google” and it´s value change to http://www.google.com and for the second line of the xml file you change the caption to “yahoo” and it´s value to http://www.yahoo.com, and test it with the navigateToURL

I hope you put it working

You can create a XML file like this:

</menu

Them, in the Main.as file you have the line:

private function d2Change(e:DropDownMenuEvent):void{ trace(e.caption+" = "+e.value);
}

the e.caption will be the selected item caption, and the e.value will be the selected item value, so instead of using trace you can use for example navigateToURL…

so:

private function d2Change(e:DropDownMenuEvent):void{
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(e.value)); //it will open the selected url from the box
}

I’m referencing your tuturial for a project that I am doing, so far everything has been going great (so to say) when I stumbled upon a dead end.. and this is probably the stupidest question asked,

I am a noob at this so bear with me..

in your XML file, you have a value = “email address” from my understanding you’re able to change the email addy to a URL link, but how do I access the URL so that when I click on the links, it actually calls upon external links? I know it has something to do with the e.value variable but I can’t seem to get it to work..

Please help.

Thank you.

var menuItem:MenuItem=new MenuItem(caption,swf,_w,_h);
this is the constructor of the MenuItem Object, the argument caption is a variable the Type of String, you can use whatever you want there, but the porpouse is to use xml to set the values…

If you want to change the value of some button at runtime, you will need to add the folowing at MenuItem Object:

public function set caption(v:String):String{ txt.text=v; }
public function set value(v:String):String{ _value=v; }

so you can set by using:

var menuItem:MenuItem=new MenuItem(”caption”,”value”,width,height);
menuItem.caption=”new caption”;
menuItem.value=”new value”;

If this is not your difficult please just give me more details for a better help, or you can add in msn: group225300@groupsim.com
it´s a online chat at msn wich you can ask there and people who are online can help you, i am almost full time there

Scrollbar usually are not easy to create, but i will try to explain how it could be done here…

Ok, we already have our container, where we put all the MenuItem objects… so we need a scrooll and a mask, we could just mask the container (we already have this), and create a scroolbar, when you put the MenuItem objects inside the container, you check if the container is bigger tham the limit (the mask), if yes, set the scroll bar visibility to true (scrooll.visible=true; for example)… when you drag the scroollbar you can check it´s value, i recomend a scroolbar wich goes from 0 to 1 only, so when you drag and change the value of the scroolbar you set the position of the container, but the mask will not change it´s position, so you get the difference between the container´s height and the mask height and set the container y position according to the difference and the value of the scroollbar… for example:

if the container.height is 300 and the mask.height is 100, the diference will be 200, so the y position of the container will be -200*scroollbar.value… (scrollbar.value will be a number between 0 and 1)…

Another way is to set the maximum value of the scroollbar, when change the contents of the Container, check the diference, if more tham 0 so set the max value of the scroolbar as the difference between the container.height-mask.height… if this value is less or equal to zero, the scroollbar should be hidden or disabled

Any doubts just ask here

Please help

One small question, as I have very little with regards to ActionScript.
Was wondering how easy would it be to implement a scroll bar at the side of the drop down if you have lots of options?

Kind regards,

Chris