Why won't my menu buttons work?

try this one:

on (release) {     _root.gotoAndStop("pagename");

the _root.goto...

says that it should go the the top layer to find the pagename.. dont know if thats the prob, but you can try?

Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:59:49 -0600

From: forums@adobe.com

To: andreasfridholm@hotmail.com

Subject: Why won't my menu buttons work?

 

 

I'm a total beginner at actionscript, but I've learnt some very, very basic things for my university course. I now have an assignment to hand in where I need to make a drop-down menu to link to other pages. My tutor helped me with the script for this (I don't understand it), and I've got a movie clip for each button which brings up a sub-menu containing more buttons.

 

Now, my problem is that the buttons in the sub-menu don't work. On each button, I've written this:

on(release){gotoAndStop('pagename');}

...which is exactly what I put for the non-submenu buttons. The non sub-menu buttons work perfectly well, but the sub-menu buttons won't. What's going on?

 

If it helps, this is the script for the movie clip. I don't understand it, though:

 

onClipEvent(mouseMove) {

if (this._currentframe == 2){

this.hi

}

}

onClipEvent (enterFrame){

if(this.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse,true)){

if(this._currentframe == 1){

this.gotoAndStop(2);

}

}else{

if(this._currentframe == 2){

this.gotoAndStop(1);

}

}

}

 

I'd appreciate some help with this. It's too late to figure it out before I hand in my assignment (which is due in a matter of mere hours), but I'd still like to know for the future.

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