Netflix style pop ups

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The Netflix website has a feature where when you hover over the title or dvd cover icon information about that dvd pops up in a small pop up. Does anyone know how this is done and if it can be replicated in Freeway 5 Pro?

I’m new to Freeway and so far I have not been able to find anything similar to this effect.

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Hi Warner,
You could use one of any of the many third party libraries to do this

  • like OverLib (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/) for example - or
    simply roll your own using a combination of Freeway’s own Rollover and
    Target Show/Hide Layer actions. When the user rolls over the target
    item you can have the action make an initially invisible layer visible.
    Regards,
    Tim.

On 29 Dec 2008, at 13:06, Warner wrote:

The Netflix website has a feature where when you hover over the
title or dvd cover icon information about that dvd pops up in a
small pop up. Does anyone know how this is done and if it can be
replicated in Freeway 5 Pro?

I’m new to Freeway and so far I have not been able to find anything
similar to this effect.

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Thanks Tim. I did try to create my own using the method you described but when the background where the pop up appeared upon rollover was not consistently a single color, the image on the target layer appeared with a non-transparent fringe around it. In other words, the portion of the image which was suppose to be transparent was not. I tried it with jpeg and png versions of the image.

I will check out the link you noted above.

Thanks, Warner

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Hi Warner,
I’ve just tried this and if you change the hidden layer to a PNG and
set the color to Millions then the fringing will disappear and the
layer will blend seamlessly with the underlying page.
Regards,
Tim.

On 29 Dec 2008, at 13:41, Warner wrote:

Thanks Tim. I did try to create my own using the method you
described but when the background where the pop up appeared upon
rollover was not consistently a single color, the image on the
target layer appeared with a non-transparent fringe around it. In
other words, the portion of the image which was suppose to be
transparent was not. I tried it with jpeg and png versions of the
image.

I will check out the link you noted above.

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Fantastic Tim! Works perfectly.

Thanks again,
Warner

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