Thanks for the fast reply – the setlabeltextnewline method indeed gave me good results. Only worry is that some of the buttons have 3 or two lines of text while others only have one, and they are all placed vertically and should be equally proportioned to the text. I know, it’s a pain.
I managed to “fix it” – probably in an unorthodox way :
in your Navigationbutton2.as,
I made a new private var _btnHeight
and then went into the positionLabel method and inserted:

_btnHeight = navigBtnAsset.navigBtnLabel.textFieldMc.tf.height;

if(_btnHeight > navigBtnAsset.navigBtnArea.height)
{
navigBtnAsset.navigBtnArea.height = _btnHeight ;
navigBtnAsset.navigBtnBg.height = _btnHeight ;
__initHeight = _btnHeight;
}

This does the trick, but could be better with some extra parameters – I know.

If you see a better way – and I’m sure you do – please let me know. Always keen to learn from a pro.
Thanks.

I have separated it into two files to be more independent when the Gaia Framework changes. That’s the way it is handled since Global Navigation version 2.xx. So, yes, if used in Gaia you need two files. Maybe you should have a look at the Fleb Framework here, which is based on the Global Navigation and you have again one xml file. If you want to change the height of your buttons you should do it inside mainBtn.swf. Also have look at this: http://www.flashcmsframework.com/docs/global-navigation2-public-methods#setbtnlabeltextnewline if you need to handle long label text in your menu buttons.

Thanks a million.

Anwser 1: have a look at the xml attribute btnSpacingY – http://www.flashcmsframework.com/docs/doku.php?id=global-navigation2-xml#btnspacingy
and also the demo file 5,6,7,8,9,10. They have a vertical menu – http://www.flashcmsframework.com/docs/doku.php?id=global-navigation2-examples

Answer 2: This is also possible Look here (getSiblings) http://www.flashcmsframework.com/docs/doku.php?id=global-navigation2-public-methods#getsiblings
By using getSiblings, you can retrieve all btns of a level and do what is needed, in your example fade out all buttons of that level.

Cheers,
Christian

i have two questions concerning the use of your Global Navigation sample code :

1) where do you switch parameters in your .as files for a vertical (rather than horizontal) display of your top hierarchy buttons ?

2) how would you proceed to obtain the same menu workflow as the one displayed in the following website http://www.royalsalute.com ? Would that be possible, meaning hiding the level 0 hierarchy once once of its buttons have been clicked

Thanks for your answer. MARC

Thanks for your input! I absolutly agree with your points. My plan is to write a little app to create the xml file visually (where you can try out settings with your own buttons). And I will also put your suggestion about the document class on my to-do list.

Global Navigation was the best solution I’ve found to create a dynamic navigation for Gaia. After figuring it out it is definately a nice choice to complement Gaia.

There are two things that I would like it to have and I thought I should share them with you.
The first one is quite simple and is only refering to the default layout of buttons. They kinda made me shiver at first and I even thought of not using this since it didn’t seemed very customizable just by looking at it. Now I understand that it’s not true but as a designer I can’t help of judging things by it’s look.
The second thing also has to do with this which is the fact that it would be nice if we could edit the button states in a document class instead of the timeline.

Hope you find this usefull!
Cheers and thank you for the hard work!