OSX pop up bar thing

[sluap]

i have been tasked in a project to make a pop up bar like the dock in OSX where
it nagnifys when you rolover a obejt and when you role out the dock it
disapears again.

i have no idea how to satrt doing this.

anyone got any ideas

cheers paul

[Nathan Friesen]

I would suggest starting by developing a behavior to scale an image up when you roll over it. If you want it to act like the dock, it will need to expand in one direction, while the other side stays fixed. And you'll probably want to make sure that it stays under the mouse as it scales, so scale it out from the center, not from an edge. It would probably be best to avoid repeat loops because while they're executing nothing else can execute. Instead use exit or enter frame.

Once you are happy with the behavior to scale an image add to it the ability to move images on either side of it. I would suggest doing this by adding properties to reference the sprites on either side, and adding a function (or functions) to be told to move. To move an image beside the one that's being scaled you would then just need to call the function in the sprites on either side. If these sprites needed to, they could then tell the sprites next to them to move, and so on.

Let me know if this helps. Good luck.

Nathan

[sluap]

darn... that all sounds good and i wish i was able to code all that... my lingo is not upto that i don't think.

Thanks for the advice ill see what i can do..

Cheers Paul