Rollover help

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Hey all,

Revamping my site and run into a rollover snag.

I have two graphic elements (typed words showing the two states)
They are aligned and selected.
I assign the rollover action to them.
I open the action inspector window and it list every element on my layout. Why?

I’ve created rollovers in another (empty) doc with no problem so I know I am doing the correct steps for this.

Thanks,

Dooki

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If you create your rollovers on the pasteboard and shift them into
position they should work ok. Also make sure Combine graphics is not
checked for the underlying object.
Cheers
Pete

On 30 Jan 2008, at 18:36, alano wrote:

Hey all,

Revamping my site and run into a rollover snag.

I have two graphic elements (typed words showing the two states)
They are aligned and selected.
I assign the rollover action to them.
I open the action inspector window and it list every element on my
layout. Why?

I’ve created rollovers in another (empty) doc with no problem so I
know I am doing the correct steps for this.

Thanks,

Dooki

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Thanks Pete, got it to work.

Another question for you FW guru’s out there. The page I am working on is my portfolio page. I have thumbnails on the side with a large viewing area in the middle. I want a border around my images so I imported a border graphic. I then created an empty graphic window inset of the border by 5mm. This inner graphic will be the slave to the thumbnails when I click on them. So, when I test the site I click on the thumbnail and the larger viewing image shows BUT it wipes out my border around it.

Perhaps I cannot overlay two graphics in the same spot. I then imported individual border pieces (2 top/2side) as a test. I brough them into FW and assembled them as a border, again with a inner window set to slave. Same result as above.

Anyone have an idea on how to get an offset border around a slave viewing area? Thanks again!

-dooki

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You could try making them both the slave area and the border image
“layer” graphics, or you could simply un-check “combine graphics” on
the top-most element in the layer. If you do the latter, and the two
images are in the same layer (or are table-based layout objects) then
the border will be sliced up to fit around the slave area, and you
will get a neat border wrap around the top image area. Just make sure
that all of your slave images are the same exact dimensions, or
you’ll see some cracks in between.

Walter

On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:02 PM, alano wrote:

Anyone have an idea on how to get an offset border around a slave
viewing area? Thanks again!

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Walt, Grazie, Mahalo,Domo!

That did the trick. Just curious, is it bad to set both items to not combine? Will this mess things up??

-dooki

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Nope, nothing bad can come from it.

It’s just a different construction, that’s all. Usually, Freeway
tries to combine images that are on the same virtual layer into a
single image. But if you un-check this, then you get to have the auto-
slicing.

Another thing that this is great for is if you have graphic text over
your image. JPEG is really really awful for type, because it turns
the edges of the characters to something resembling week-old
hamburger. But GIF is terrible for large photographs, both from a
file-size and from a color accuracy standpoint. But if you bring the
edges of your graphic text box in to be as small as they can be and
still contain the text, and set the text box to not combine, you will
get the best of both worlds. Freeway will slice the photograph into
as many pieces as needed to wrap around the text, and then create a
tiny GIF containing the text that fits into this puzzle. You probably
won’t notice the edges where the transition happens between GIF and
JPEG. All you will see is clear, crisp type and a nice looking photo.

Walter

On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:23 PM, alano wrote:

Walt, Grazie, Mahalo,Domo!

That did the trick. Just curious, is it bad to set both items to
not combine? Will this mess things up??

-dooki

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Hmmm. interesting.
For this site I using only text from within FW for NAV. But my thumbnails are scaled down images which look like crap. The are jpg photos. Any tips on how keep these thumbnails looking sharp? The larger image that show up in the main viewing are fine, it’s just these pesky thumbnails that are now bugging me. Thanks for your help Walt!!

-Dooki

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If you are really picky about your thumbnails, then scale them down
in Photoshop. Freeway uses bi-linear scaling, rather than Photoshop’s
far more processor-intensive bicubic interpolation. This makes it
dramatically faster, which is critical in Freeway’s case because
every image is (potentially) scaled each time you publish. But it
also makes the quality suffer.

Walter

On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:43 PM, alano wrote:

Hmmm. interesting.
For this site I using only text from within FW for NAV. But my
thumbnails are scaled down images which look like crap. The are jpg
photos. Any tips on how keep these thumbnails looking sharp? The
larger image that show up in the main viewing are fine, it’s just
these pesky thumbnails that are now bugging me. Thanks for your
help Walt!!

-Dooki

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Wait a minute. Are you saying that everytime I test my site FW publishes it and each time the images are scaled and re-scaled? Does this mean that every time I publish I loose quality?

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No. Here’s the publish cycle:

You place an image on the page*. The original is NEVER touched, only
read in and manipulated within Freeway.

If you scale, crop, merge or otherwise manipulate the image in
Freeway, then a copy is made of the original, and this copy is
dynamic. If you change your layout, or if you change the quality or
compression method, then a new image will be created from the
original with the new settings. Your original image is never
changed in any way, but the copies that Freeway creates and uploads
are changed depending on how you may have set your preferences.

“When in doubt, throw it out” is Freeway’s watchword. If you make a
change to a page, all elements of that page are re-generated from the
current settings. That means the HTML, the scripts, and the images.
Believe it or not, this is a good thing, because it means you are not
stirring the same swill around hoping it will turn to gold, like
Dreamweaver.

Walter

*note that Freeway allows you to place an image in an HTML box, also
known as Pass Through. Images placed this way are never re-
compressed, they also cannot be cropped or manipulated in any way.
It’s up to you to make them Web-ready.

On Jan 30, 2008, at 8:21 PM, alano wrote:

Wait a minute. Are you saying that everytime I test my site FW
publishes it and each time the images are scaled and re-scaled?
Does this mean that every time I publish I loose quality?

-Dooki

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Sometime around 30/1/08 (at 18:43 -0500) alano said:

my thumbnails are scaled down images which look like crap. The are
jpg photos. Any tips on how keep these thumbnails looking sharp?

You could just scale them down a bit and pick a good-looking crop of
the main image for each thumbnail. Or resize in Photoshop and apply
sharpening there. (Don’t bother saving for web afterwards; just save
and import native PSD files to your layout.)

Alternatively, have you tried the Sharpen action in Freeway? You can
apply some sharpening to images right there in your layout! Select
your graphic and choose Item > Actions > Sharpen. Turn on the
Graphics Preview (View > Graphics Preview) to see the effect as you
work.

k

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