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I have DL the beta4 of gskinner and added the folders to my folder so that I
have both:
“com/teso/ui/DropDown.as”
“com/gskinner/motion/*”

hope someone can help me with this

Thanks for a great class. I used it as the base for my own and it turned out really well…
One of the things I changed was the callback function. I don’t much like the use of callbacks, so instead I just dispatch an event now, after storing the selected item in a class variable.

So it now goes something like this:

var drop:DropDown = new DropDown(”MY DROPDOWN”, 180, 14, fmt, items);
drop.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, selectHandler);

private function selectHandler(evt:Event):void {
trace(DropDown(evt.target).selectedItem.name);
trace(DropDown(evt.target).selectedIndex);
}

and for the dropdown class itself…

private function selectHandler(e:Event):void {

// set label
_defaultText.htmlText = e.currentTarget.getChildByName(”t”).text;
_defaultText.setTextFormat(_fmt);

// set selected
_selectedIndex = int(e.currentTarget.name);
_selectedItem = _items[_selectedIndex];

// dispatch event
dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.SELECT));

}

Just thought you might be interested

its realy great class
i have been try and its workss..

i am new in AS3.. how to make link to another movieClip at the button???

thanks…

anton

Working Example:

var fmat:TextFormat = new TextFormat;
var dropDown;

// array for drop
var dropOtherArray:Array = new Array()
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”iWork”, name:”folio”} )
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”iExperiment”, name:”lab”} )
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”iWrite”, name:”blog”} )
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”iPhotograph”, name:”photo”} )
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”iFlickr”, name:”flickr”} )
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”iRecord”, name:”vimeo”} )
dropOtherArray.push( {title:”contactMe”, name:”contact”} )

fmat.color = 0xffffff;
fmat.font = “Arial”;
fmat.size = 11;

dropDown = new DropDown( 180, 25, “iLiveElsewhere:”, fmat, 0×000033, dropOtherArray, “down”, dropTest );

addChild( dropDown );

//callback function
function dropTest() {
trace(”works!”);
}

the example given above leaves out a coupla variable definitions that need to go
above the rest of the code.

var fmat:TextFormat;
var _dropOther;

Also, don’t forget you need to obtain gskinners motion package from
http://gskinner.com/libraries/gtween/

both gskinners motion package and your new DropDown.as package need to be
placed correctly in your folder structure to work.
com/teso/ui/DropDown.as
com/gskinner/motion/*

Finally, you will need a function called “other” to accept the mouseEvent triggered
when a menu item is clicked. Thus event.currentTarget.name will be the name of
button clicked and you can add your functionality from there.

I think that’s it… have fun!

armegalo

Thanks.

cheers for the example.

It seems you have a class there, which could be DropDown.as stored in
a class path, but I am unable to properly use the class, and always get errors.

How would I structure my fla actionscript to use this class?

thanks for a great example