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The Dynamic Menu Buttons is a set of two components: DynamicButton and DynamicRadioButton. Each of these components behaves similarly to corresponding Macromedia Flash components ??” Button and RadioButton. Actually DynamicButton and DynamicRadioButton are essentially different from standard Flash components. It is most clearly expressed in the following features. First, the components are ?«dynamic?»: mouse interaction invokes prebuilt ActionScript dynamic effects. Second, the components are multi-purpose and can be easily used in building various combinations for navigation system of a web site or Flash application. Third, the components are extremely customizable. Take a look at our Interactive demo to preview many of their advanced features:
* 5 action script dynamic effects and 10 original icon sets
* Custom icon support. Set your icons for menu buttons
* Frame rate independent animation. Look best at any frame rate
* Full-featured properties panel. Write code only when necessary
* Full-controlled sizing, scaling and label placement
* Handling user events (?«click?», ?«rollover?», ?«rollout?»)
DynamicButton component
The DynamicButton component is a resizable user interface button with prebuilt dynamic effects and precompiled icon sets. You can add custom icons to a dynamic button. You can also change the behavior of a dynamic button from push to toggle. A toggle dynamic button stays selected when clicked and returns to its unselected state when clicked again.
A live preview of each DynamicButton instance reflects changes made to parameters in the Property inspector or Component inspector during authoring. However, in the live preview a custom icon is represented on the Stage by a gray square.
A button is a fundamental part of any form or web application. You can use buttons wherever you want a user to initiate an event. The DynamicButton can be easily used in different combinations where appearance of a component is a matter of great importance. It allows creating nonordinary attractive design for your web application, presentation etc.
DynamicRadioButton component
The DynamicRadioButton component lets you force a user to make a single choice within a set of choices. This component must be used in a group of at least two DynamicRadioButton instances. Only one member of the group can be selected at any given time. Selecting one dynamic radio button in a group deselects the currently selected dynamic radio button in the group. You set the groupName parameter to indicate which group a dynamic radio button belongs to.
A live preview of each DynamicRadioButton instance on the Stage reflects changes made to parameters in the Property inspector or Component inspector during authoring. However, the mutual exclusion of selection does not display in the live preview. If you set the selected parameter to true for two dynamic radio buttons in the same group, they both appear selected even though only the last instance created will appear selected at runtime.
The DynamicRadioButton is a universal component that combines its individual properties with the properties of Macromedia RadioButton component. As a result, there are two common uses for DynamicRadioButton:
1. Creating the main animated menu for a Flash application that consists of three and more items. Both horizontal and vertical arrangement of menu items (icons) is possible.
2. Creating the form that forces a user to make a single choice within a set of choices (similarly to Macromedia RadioButton).
The first use of the component is preferred because it was originally designed for this purpose. |
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