'Transparent' object on top of clickable area?

Hi Morten,

Can you not just add a trigger to the play button to play media when the user clicks on it?

Antony

Hi Antony,

That's what I thought, but it doesn't work because the video is supposed to open in a new window. For some reason a trigger does not open the video in a new window.

Hi Morten,

Yes, I see what you mean - adding a trigger to the play button overides the action to open the video in a new window.

In answer to your original question, I don't think that a shape can be semi-transparent AND invisible. Unfortunately I don't have a usable solution for you - sorry - but I'm wondering if adding a trigger to change the state of the play button to hidden when the user hovers the mouse over it (and have it restore on mouse leave) would work? In theory, the play button is visible, so the user can see they need to click on it but by hiding it on mouse over, they actually click on the video.

Antony  

Hi Antony,

I think the mouse over might confuse most of the users, but it may be the only solution.

Unless there are other ideas out there?

Hi Morten,

Just wondering if you managed to work out an alternative solution to your issue?

If you have, I'd love to hear it. If you haven't, at least this post has been bumped so someone else might be able to offer a solution

Antony

What is it that triggers the video to open in a new window? Could you make an image that was the thumbnail from the video you wanted with a play button on top and then have that entire thing be the trigger to open it in a new window? Alternately if the place the video is hosted (if external) lets you select your thumbnail could it be a separate image (again with a play button superimposed on it)?