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getting mouseovers and mouseouts to work properly

hi there

check out http://www.citrusmedia.com/
(VIEWING REQUIREMENTS etc buttons in bottom right),and

http://www.benjerry.com/our_company/international/?CFID=121480&CFTOKEN=59201373
(menu header buttons et al)

my question is how to maximize button efficiency: I have always kept my mouseover dropdown menus (or dropovers) as short of an animation as possible, as i sometimes get an overlay of dropdowns when mousing across my menu bar.

any ideas on how best to set up your menu bar to allow for the kind of dropdowns in the examples above?

thanks for reading!
aidan

blue-genie

Not sure what you're asking, but you don't want your opening and closing animations to overlap on your button rollovers?

if thats the case, you can simply delay the opening until the closing has taken place, by including a closed = true option on the last frame of the closing animation, and then the rollover must test for the variable before running the opening sequence.
(i'm assuming your animations are not on the over state of buttons.)

ps. i like the design work on citrusmedia.

blu.

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blue-genie

oi, you sorted?

aidan09

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hey blu
sorry, was a 'question in time', R&D kinda inquiry - then i promptly left on holiday!
i haevnt yet tried cheyennejk's suggestion, though it looks pretty good to me in theory - will get round to it asap after clearing my desk up a bit, and get back to you guys.
thank u both for yr help!
aidan