flash (macromedia): Hello,

Is it possible to create a Flash drop down menu where you don't need the extra
space below the pulldown bar for the sub-menu's to appear? I am playing with
the Drop Menu template/tutorial that comes with MX. In the last slide it says
to resize your movie dimensions. If I do that and make the movie dimensions the
same as the pulldown then the sub-menus don't appear. If say I make the movie
height 300px then the drop down bar takes up 300px pushing my site contents
down.

I would like the sub-menu drop down part to go over the current sites content.
(like a normal html pulldown would do)

Is this possible?


TIA
Josh

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It's not possible, flash can only show within the canvas boundaries.
What we usually do in such case is make a really large canvas and than place the
movie in Layer and set the background to transparent so it appear like it goes
beyond available area. There is a trade off tho, using transparency (WMODE tag)
it's know to cause problems. It's not support in all browsers and may make your movie
malfunction.


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by the way, you can always use javascript drop down menu and only call it from
flash animated buttons.
Something like the http://www.kbhome.com/
The buttons Find, Personalize, Finance, About Us


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