Building an Animated Drop-Down Menu: Part 2

By: Derrick Ypenburg on Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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We will take our basic animated menu arcchitecture we created in Part 1 and add to it it make our menu fully dynamic.

In Part 2, we are going to create a button class to populate our menu with, a data provider to specify how many buttons the menu will have, the labels for the buttons, and where the buttons will link to when pressed. We will also create some "smart" code that will size the menu mask, and calculate the animated mouse-over and mouse-off positions depending on the height of the menu.

Part 3 will wrap things up with populating our menu data from XML and some dynamic menu backgorund drawing using the drawing API.

The Building an Animated Drop-Down Menu Series:
Building an Animated Drop-Down Menu: Part 1
Building an Animated Drop-Down Menu: Part 2
Building an Animated Drop-Down Menu: Part 3

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