I have been working on a site with a rollover-powered main navigation menu that changes the appearance of each button as you mouse over it, and also reflects the menu (and changes on mouseover) on a shiny ‘metal’ style background.
To achieve this effect I’ve used lots of graphic items with ‘rollover’, ‘fade’ and ‘target show/hide layer’ actions to show and hide the correct menu items and the reflection effect.
All these images (about 18 of them) reference just two photoshop files. In the photoshop file the menu buttons are all 100 pixels wide (total 600 pixels wide). So the first graphic item is 100 pixels wide with a horizontal offset of 0, the second is 100 wide with offset of -100, the third -200, and so on. This way if i need to edit the look of the menu I can just edit one photoshop file, and all the menu images update. Easy yeah?
At one stage, it was working fine. Changes in the photoshop file were reflected on the site every time once I resampled and republished. Then I had to add an extra navigation menu item and change the overall width of the menu, which required me to change the width and horizontal offset values for most of the graphic items, to suit the new appearance.
However, the horiztonal offset values seem stuck to what they used to be. I mean, I can edit them, and the new value is saved, and in freeway with ‘graphics preview’ turned on or off the menu appears perfectly, but the new horizontal offset values are NOT being used when freeway creates the images when publishing the site. I’ve tried renaming the photoshop file, deleting the site folder and publishing again, updating and resampling the photoshop files, all to no avail. No matter what I’ve tried, the menu buttons it’s creating from the PSD file (as individual PNG files) have the wrong offset.
Is this a known problem? I’m using Photoshop CS5 and Freeway Pro 5.4.2.
My last option is to delete all the graphic items and start again (a test on one of them seemed to work) but this is a lot of work as I have to apply actions to all of them again, and there’s no guarantee it won’t stuff up again if I want to change the offset values. Anyone else had this issue?
Cheers,
Sam
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