I have a rollover action set to trigger a Target Show/Hide Layer action. In the rollover action palette “restore” is set to “yes” and, as I would expect, the rollover item restores to its default appearance when not moused-over. The rollover’s target is addressed to be “click # 1”.
In the Target Show/Hide Layer action palette the layer is set to be initially hidden, “restore” is set to “yes”, "target’ set to “#1”. (Target Group is indigo in both palettes.)
The layer displays as expected: hidden when the page loads, displays when the associated rollover is clicked; but it won’t go away. I would expect that once the mouse cursor leaves the rollover, the layer should hide itself, no? I have played with all four “restore” settings and there seems to be no difference between “yes”, “no” and “sticky”. “Toggle” works as expected but is not the desired effect. (Actually, I REALLY had my way the layer would display as long as the cursor was on the item in the target layer, which has some active links on it…maybe there’s a way, but I’ll have to spill that milk when I get to it:-)
I have tried: Closing and re-opening the Freeway document, multiple browsers and clearing browser cache ('tho the behavior is the same in FW “preview” mode), quit and restarted FW. I’m starting to wonder if it’s a bug that would respond to re-installing Freeway??
displays when the associated rollover is clicked; but it won’t go away.
This is expected behaviour if you have an onclick event set then that is analogous to a switch clicking for on. You need to click another switch to turn it off.
The rollover is more like pressing a bell push when you are over it then it is on finger away and it is off.
Do you really want both events, click and rollover?
Maybe I should give an overview of what I’m trying to do…the trigger rollover is one of a row of site navigation buttons which are graphic items (CSS layout) containing graphic text with rollover actions applied. All the buttons save one simply take the visitor to another page on the site; the problematic one would like to be a drop-down menu (I hope I’m not using the term incorrectly), similar in appearance to its trigger button, which offers three lines of graphic text, each a link to another page on the site. So, ideally (I think), clicking on the trigger button displays the “drop-down”; which persists as long as the cursor hovers over the area of the drop-down and goes away when a) a link on the drop-down is clicked, causing another page to load, or b) the cursor leaves the area of the drop-down.
Granted, that would NOT have been accomplished by what I had set up, but I thought from reading the FW reference that the dropdown would persist as long as the cursor was on the rollover, and that was not happening.
[(Plucked from FW5 reference pg 332)
Restore
Refers to what happens when the mouse moves
away from the rollover item or other trigger for
the target item. There are four choices:
Yes Causes the item to return to its initial state
when the mouse moves away from the rollover
item.]
I see that there a CSS menus way to skin the cat, but I was hoping for something that maintained an appearance, i.e. colors and fonts, in use on the site (although I WILL be replicating the navigation menu at the bottom of the pages, and likely will use CSS menus there).
So looking at http://www.deltadzine.net/test/caption.html I see that there is another way to manage things. The “close” link must be a bit of text with another action attached to it? I’m trying to think it through…
Restore Refers to what happens when the mouse moves away from the rollover item or other trigger for the target item
Yes if a rollover - not for a click
If you want to add a ‘close’ link to your 3 lines (a fourth) then create another graphic text item as a show/hide layer with the same parameters as your initial 3 (contained in 1 item I assume). Also apply the rollover action to this
Mouseover:None
Click:Items
Restore:Yes
and same group as above with
Mouseover:NO
and the same Target# as previous
Also to get this to work set the target/show hide setting for Restore: Toggle
To sum up 1 trigger rollover item, 2 target/show hide (links and close) with the close one also having a rollover action too
Thanks so much for your cogent (and timely!) explanation. It will likely be a day of two before I have time to descend (or ascend) into web-world to try this out.
I eventually fought my way past that obstacle with your help and much dredging of old posts here and finally (I THINK) got a concept of the implications of layers. I think the FW reference book would be better off with such an overview; lots of folks who most here seem to run up against the same issues again and again.)
Anyway, thanks again and I WILL post back here with the outcome.