In this new actionscript 3 tutorial, we are going to build a smooth horizontal tweened menu. As usual we use the Tweenlite engine.

1. Create a new flash file (Actionscript 3.0) and save it as menu.fla.
2. Rename “layer 1″ to “menu”. First we are going to design our arrow shaped menu items. To do it, with the rectangle tool selected draw a rectangle on the stage with the fill color of your choice and no stroke color. To create the end part of the menu_item use the polystar tool to create a triangle that you stick to the rectangle. Now with your menu item shape built, convert it to a Movie Clip with registration point at the top left. Give it an instance name of “menu1_mc”.
3. To add the label to the menu item, double click on the movie clip you’ve just created so you can edit it.
With the Text…