That site is all Flash. The menu at the top could be done very quickly
and easily in JavaScript. Draw your color bars so they’re hanging off
screen, then use Scriptaculous Effect.morph to move it down into view
when you mouse over the trigger area and back up when you mouse out.
The easiest way to get Scriptaculous to do this would be the “hard
way”, which is to use my Protaculous Action’s Observer Action to
attach the behavior to your rollover elements. I say the hard way
because that involves writing some code, rather than clicking some
buttons in a packaged Action. It’s actually pretty hard to dream up an
Action that can do everything you might want to do, because
Scriptaculous can do capital-a Anything.
I did a demo of this a while back, not exactly the same as what you’re
describing, but similar. I think it’s at Untitled
but I’m not sure as that server is updating itself right now. If I
get a moment I’ll post an example that does exactly what you’re
talking about here. It’s not that big a deal to do.
Walter
On Jun 16, 2009, at 8:08 AM, wingnut wrote:
Cheers Walter, that makes sense. Where would I find the script…
being a bit of a scripty ignoramous and all!