I’ve had a hell of a time getting the rollover action to load, then to getting the action so show up in the list when multiple items were selected. Then once I figured out the layers, combine graphics check marks, I had to figure out the HTML pull down needed to be png for all items selected. Why they default to HTML when you group them I don’t know.
Anyway… my question is this:
Can I have a rollover action that makes another graphic show up in a different part of the screen? I want to mouse over small icons placed in random parts of the screen only to expose a graphical dialog box that remains in the same location.
I figured out that I can get my rollover to work with the small icon, a grayed out icon over the top of it and one of the graphical dialog box, only if I dragged the dialog’s box handle bars/selection ring past the first small icon encompassing it.
Cool, I thought… after 7 hours of dealing with this rollover issue, watching the tutorial several times, and looking though some posts here I thought I was home free to make the next 5 rollovers. WRONG!
What I noticed is that the whole space below and around the small icon away from the dialog box became a hot spot to activate the rollover function. This will not work because it defeats the purpose of having small hotspot icons if all one has to do is mouse over the empty area anywhere beyond the border of the dialog box. Secondly, all the 6 future dialog boxes have to show up in the same place and mousing over the smaller icons will make the wrong dialog boxes show up depending on how far away you are moving the cursor to reach the successively further icons.
Any help in figuring out how to link small icons with their associated graphical dialog box files to pop up in a static location so they don’t have to be touching would be awesome!
OK, I’ve had to show the example out on the pasteboard because of the other graphics on the page. But you get the idea. The text box will always be invisible UNLESS you mouse over one of the icons. There is a different text box for each icon. However the only way to make the rollover work with the icon and text box is that I have to somehow allow the text box to touch the icons. The screen shot doesn’t show it, but my mouse pointer is in the middle of the empty space making the box appear and I’m not even moused over the appropriate icon, nor can I make any of the other icons show their respective text boxes.
Is there a better way to achieve this effect? Some kind of table or even a slideshow window that exposes the text boxes when certain icons are triggered to their links?
BTW… I’ve been a professional graphic designer for 20 years. Never delved into web and never cared to. (the eary days scared me away with all the code and markup language etc.) Just different parts of the brain I guess. However, I was exposed to Freeway about 5 years ago and made 2 small simple websites using it. This will be my third website ever. So please go easy on me, I don’t know much about this stuff or any of the web language. At this point in the project I don’t even know how I’m going to get the site loaded to an ftp server. But I’ll worry about that when I get this site done for my client.
It is not clear from your SS but I guess what you are trying to achieve is get the text box to appear when rolling over the icon. Is there a change to the icon when rolling over?
To get the text box to appear first make sure that the TB is a layer.
Apply the Target Show/Hide Layer action to it
Use the settings: Initially Hidden, Restore Yes, Effect Fade, Duration 0.5, Target Group Indigo, Target# 1
On your Icon with the Rollover action applied, look at it in the action Inspector and with the Parameters Tab selected make sure that the Target Group is Indigo and the Mouseover# is 1 (to match the settings in the Target Show/Hide Later action above)
Repeat this for each Icon/Text Box pairing.
If you want the Icon image to change on Rollover as well you set these parameters in the Top of the settings section ie the Dropdown selector for Mouseover.
Yes the icon has a grayed out version of itself upon rollover. I will go over your instructions and see what I can find.
In the meantime Freeway is acting weird when I preview the page in both browser mode and through the preview tab. Images are being cut off and placed at weird spots, and even displaying wavy pixelated Salvadore Dali type representations. I’m probably taxing the memory and will restart and attempt this later.
On 18 Dec 2011, 4:09 am, Mr.Bill wrote:
In the meantime Freeway is acting weird when I preview the page in both browser mode and through the preview tab. Images are being cut off and placed at weird spots, and even displaying wavy pixelated Salvadore Dali type representations. I’m probably taxing the memory and will restart and attempt this later.
You’ll need to be in the habit of clearing your browser’s cache every time you make changes and want to see them in action. sometime’s the browsers get stuck with the old versions, or something “in between” and might looks strange.
