I made an interactive poster (see attached). In the last layer I placed several transparent rectangels and defined some mouse hover triggers for them. The problem is that the triggers don't work. BUT when I give the rectangels a filling color (instead of "no fill") - it works!
Not doing anything wrong. I believe shapes have to have a fill for the mouseover to work. You could try using hotspots over your transparent rectangles and having the hotspots change the state of the rectangles when mousedover.
Brett is correct - shapes do need a fill for the mouseover to work.
Personally, I would stick with using the shapes you already have rather than hotspots here - hotspots create their own triggers which you have already applied to your shapes.
As you have said Yair, shapes with 'no fill' applied allow the user to click through the shape rather than click on it. Instead, fill the shape with a colour and then set the colour to 100% transparent.
By the way, There is another wierd thing: the "BG" shape doesn't go back to its original state when the mouse moves off of it, ALTHOUGH the "restore on mouse leave" checkbox is checked. Do you think it's a problem with the software?
I think this is again due to the fact that hover-over shapes on the 'Product' layer are set to no fill. I have changed them to 100% transparency and they seem to be behaving as expected now?
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Not doing anything wrong. I believe shapes have to have a fill for the mouseover to work. You could try using hotspots over your transparent rectangles and having the hotspots change the state of the rectangles when mousedover.
Ok, I guess these built-in hotspots where what I was looking for...
Thanks Brett!
Brett is correct - shapes do need a fill for the mouseover to work.
Personally, I would stick with using the shapes you already have rather than hotspots here - hotspots create their own triggers which you have already applied to your shapes.
As you have said Yair, shapes with 'no fill' applied allow the user to click through the shape rather than click on it. Instead, fill the shape with a colour and then set the colour to 100% transparent.
Antony
Good idea, Antony!
By the way, There is another wierd thing: the "BG" shape doesn't go back to its original state when the mouse moves off of it, ALTHOUGH the "restore on mouse leave" checkbox is checked. Do you think it's a problem with the software?
Hi Yair,
I think this is again due to the fact that hover-over shapes on the 'Product' layer are set to no fill. I have changed them to 100% transparency and they seem to be behaving as expected now?
See attached.
Antony
Yair,
If you don't want to use hotspots for some reason, just set the fill colour of your shape to white and then set the opacity to 99%.
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