hi there everyone.

im at university and im producing and interactive CD Rom using director!

the trouble is that i am wanting to include as part of my final design an
mouseover or mouse hover menu. Which starts as a side bar on the left hand side
and then when then mouse hovers over the side bar it scrolls outfrom the left
side into a left side mene. then obviously once the mouse has clicked and moved
away from the menu it slides back to a side bar on the left from which it
oroiginated.

i had a though of using tweens in order to create the animation of the menu
sliding out. but then i dont know how to combine it to work throughout the
whole CD rom and to work with the mouseover effect.

:/ as much help as possible will be really appreciated!

David

It looks like this is an opportunity to learn to code using rects.

1) Create a sprite and place it on the Stage with its left edge flush with the
left edge of the Stage.
2) When the playback head reaches this frame, which event is sent to the
sprite?
3) What is the rect of the sprite?
4) How would you save this rect for use later?
5) How does the offset() method work with a rect object?
6) Can you calculate a new rect for your sprite which shows only a thin sliver
of it on the Stage?
7) See question 4.
8) What event is triggered when the mouse is moved over a sprite?
9) How can you set the rect of a sprite to a different rect

Can you use the clues above to create a sprite that pops out from the left
when your mouse moves over it? Once you've done that, you'll need to think
about how to get different rects within the sprite to react like a menu, but
let's proceed one step at a time.