Creating a Mail Form with PHP and Flash - Part 2 - Page 7

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Well lets try, click on the button to open the menu but don't select an option,and move your mouse away

http://www.codewalkers.com/oldimages/tutorials/flash2/droptest1.swf,150,150

Now that is a problem, how do we get round that.Well this is where we use our transparent button.Again looking the the library of the source file you will see a button called transbutton and a graphic called button both are highlighted below.

Let me just run through how I made this button.I drew a shape big enough to not only cover my drop down menu but to make sure there was around 5px of my visible each side of the menu.I then selected my shape and from the Flash menu Insert>Convert to symbol and called it button and saved it as a graphic.I then selected Insert> New symbol and created a button called transbutton.I dragged my graphic symbol into the up state of my transbutton, made sure it was aligned to the centre of the stage(ctrl-k will open the alignment box),selected it and and in the the effects panel Window>Panel>Effects I choose alpha from the menu and set it to 0%.Next step is to place the button on the stage of the movie clip "title"

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