What rollover method are you following? Are your elements layered, or
inline images? Did you group them and apply the Rollover to the group,
or did you apply the Action to the top image in the stack and call it
done?
There’s three (or more) ways to do this, and they each have their own
wrinkles.
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Draw a layered graphic box, make your first button. Duplicate it in
place (as a separate layer) and modify it to make your over state.
Drag a selection rectangle around one corner of the two stacked
images, group them. Apply the Rollover Action to the group, and make
your selections in the Images tab of the Actions palette.
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Draw a non-layered graphic box (blue edges), make your first
button. Duplicate it in place, modify it to make your over state. Make
sure the duplicate does NOT have Combine Images checked. Apply the
Rollover Action to the top image, make your selections in the Images
tab of the Actions palette.
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Make and export two images, normal and over as stand-alone images
in your Media folder or elsewhere you can find them later. Draw an
HTML box and import your first image. Resize the box so that it is the
precise size of the image it contains. Apply the Rollover Action, and
switch to the Parameters tab. Use the image selector in the Actions
palette to locate your Over state version of the image.
As you can see, each of these is slightly different, and each one has
a gotcha or two waiting for you. In layers, it’s the absolute need to
group the layers before you make your rollover, and to ensure that
none of the layers are nested inside another layer. In the table-based
layout, it’s the requirement that you do not group the images, and
that you do not allow the images to merge. In the manual method
(critically useful for inline images or table cell images), it’s the
need to export both “states” of the image first, and treat them as
“pass-through” images.
Walter
On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Jenny wrote:
Okay, I have just tried that. The problem is still occurring, but
there has been a development.
Now when I go into the Resources folder in the Site Folder only
item2 (the hover version) is showing – item2a (the normal button)
has disappeared.
I have also noticed two other files in that folder: freela2 and
freela2a, which, when viewed in preview, are the two stages of the
‘about’ button that is missing.
This all seems strange to me, as when I created the buttons
originally I changed the name of each button, from item1 etc. to the
same text I put on the button. For example the home button was home /
home1.
Jenny
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