This is something that you are probably going to kick yourself over when you see how easy it is! ....
In this article, you will learn how to build this simple dropdown menu in Flash using Actionscript 3.0:
In this article, you will learn a much better, more object oriented way to structure a Flash application than the typical "frames on the main timeline" scheme that you see so often everywhere. This better way might be summed up in a few words as "MovieClips as screens." This is so far superior to "Frames as screens," that I think you will be as amazed as I was, when I line out for you exactly why. Read on!
We could all use arrays, couldn't we? 
In this article, first you will learn how to create objects from the library in a loop with Flash, the new AS3 way. Then you will learn how handy it can be to store your "MovieClips-as-buttons" instances in an array...

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