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Applying the DropDownMenus class

April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

In this post, the DropDownMenus class is used to form a group of horizontally arranged dropdown menus.  Several changes have been made to the class to enable multiple instances to work more efficently together (changes detailed below).

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Using drop down menus: the DropDownMenus class

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

In this post, the DropDownMenus class is introduced.  The class may be used singularly – as shown – or as a group with a series of drop down menus placed side-by-side horizontally.

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Prototyping with simple buttons: the Button class

February 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS3 Custom Classes

An easy and quick to program multi-purpose button is very helpful especially when prototyping an application and time is of the essence. The Button and accompanying ButtonClickedEvent class are just the right solution here. These two classes can be programmed as standalone, toggle or menu functions with very little effort.

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Navigating with custom menus: Menus Class Part II

September 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AS3 Custom Classes

This post concludes the description of the Menus class and details the code necessary for navigation. With the additional code, clicking on any active menu tab navigates to either a html or a flash based page depending on how the tab nodes in the menuTabs in the XML file are configured.
Each tab has two [...]

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Creating custom rollover menus: Menus Class Part I

September 16th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

The Menus class creates menus with data supplied from an external xml file. The xml file defines both the appearance and navigational properties of the menus. In this post, I will describe all those xml settings that control the appearance of the menus and then, in the following post, the navigation settings will [...]

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