Computer Roll Over Buttons

I am working with DVD Studio Pro 1.5.2 (Believe me the upgrade is coming soon)and I have created a DVD with a few static menus (photoshop files) that include various buttons with active and select states (photoshop layers). When I play this DVD in a computer I have to double-click the buttons to activate them. When I roll over them nothing happens. Should I be able to have active roll-over states on these menus? And if so how do achieve this?

Menus can be a bit of an issue, yes - there are a few things to consider. Have a look at page 53 of the manual (considers pan scan and letterbox issues) and at page 84/5, which describes how to create your menu graphics when working in 16:9 and thinking about the differences between square and rectangular pixel aspects.
In short, design the menu slightly larger than you need it and re-size if when done. If you use square pixels in photoshop then the overlay will probably shift slightly in DVDSP.

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Javascript error in Safari (sequel to roll-over button problem)

Yesterday I started a thread on non-functioning roll-over buttons in Safari.
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The problem occurs in sites I built with FreewayPro 4.0.1
The url's:
www.wildeplantentuinen.nl
www.kunst-zin.nl
The problems occur only in Safari (2.0.2 and 3.0)and not in some other browsers (even ana IE version of 2001 works great)and probably since the last Tiger Update (10.4.11)
The JavaSriptConsole gives an "Undefined Value" error for all of the non-functioning elements on a specific line.
Any Javascript-gurus around that could help me. (I am not a code-wizard at all).

Thanks ra5ul,
That (more or less) solved the problem, . . . . . . but what is going on ?
I edited all sourcecode of numerous html-pages by hand and now they work the way they should in Safari.
But now every time I make a small change to any page, my web-building program changes the code back to the old syntax (which, again, all browsers can read except Safari).
Why does the problem only occur in Safari ?
I hate to put a line on the index-pages that Mac users should not try this website in Safari.
Problem is, I made these sites in Freeway and I don't want to upgrade that program because I switched to Dreamweaver and iWeb (for the simple ones).
Is there a smart work-around ?

Roll over buttons showing on all layers?

Hello,
I have created an interactive presentation in indesign CS4, I have a series of photos which all have roll over button states applied to them so they when you click the photo they will then show profile content for that photo. These are on separate layers and above the main content layer. When I export to Acrobat 9 the layers show in the correct order but when I then set the buttons up to show and hide the profile layer the photo button which is on a lower layer and should then be partially hidden by the profile panel but now sits on top of the content panel? Is this just the way it is in Acrobat or is there a setting in indesign I am missing as I did want the panel to pop up with a drop shadow etc you can still see part of the original photo underneath, is this achievable or do I then need to set a action to hide the initial photo button?
I have ran tests using just hyperlinks and these work and the photos then stay in the correct order but ideally I wanted to use rollovers.
Many thanks for any help.

Hello,
Unfortunately, you're in the Acrobat.com forum - not the Acrobat forum (confusing, we know). Here's the link the forum you're looking for:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat
Good luck!
Rebecca

Flash roll over buttons

hey, i'm using flash CS3 for my website. i'm trying to make thumbnails of pictures on the side of the screen and when the user will roll over these thumbnails, the actual size picture will appear in the middle of the page. i already did this on most of my site by simply converting these thumbnails to buttons and adding the picture on the the "over" part. but now i wanted to change the pictures on my site and when i tried to do the same progress again the pictures now appear not only when i roll over the thumbnails but when i roll over the part that the pictures are supposed to appear too!
i truely have no idea why this is happening!
please help!
thanks

Try extending the thumbnail so that it occupies all four of the frames, making sure that the larger image is only in the over frame.

Roll over button sound

Hello,
i'm trying to get a sound clip to play when rolling over the
buttons. I was trying to integrate the following function to my
actionscript file, but it ain't working. i have tried many
variations but no luck, any ideas?
thanks
Function:
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, playSound);
function playSound(event:MouseEvent):void {
mySoundChannel = mySound.play();
var mySoundReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("songsample.mp3");
var mySound:Sound = new Sound();
var mySoundChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
mySound.load(mySoundReq);
Actionscript file code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;
public class sieges extends flash.display.MovieClip{
var debug:Boolean=true;
public const SIEGE_LIBRE:int = 0;
public const SIEGE_SYSTEME:int = 1;
public const SIEGE_USER:int = 2;
var status:int = SIEGE_LIBRE;
// constructeur
public function sieges () {
if (debug) trace("siege:"+this.name);
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this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, siege_over);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, siege_out);
siege_init();
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function siege_click(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (debug) trace("siege_click");
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user_reservation();
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URLRequest("/reservations/images/"+this.name+".jpg");
this.parent["photo"].scaleContent = true;
this.parent["photo"].addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
ioErrorHandler);
this.parent["photo"].load(request);
event.target.alpha = .5;
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if (debug) trace("siege_over");
event.target.alpha = 1;
function ioErrorHandler(e:Event):void {
public function siege_init() {
if (debug) trace("siege_init");
this.status = SIEGE_LIBRE;
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public function user_reservation () {
if (debug) trace("user_reservation");
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gotoAndPlay(10);
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public function system_reservation () {
if (debug) trace("syste,_reservation");
this.status = SIEGE_SYSTEME;
gotoAndPlay(5);
Actionscript file code

does playSound() called?

Updating roll over buttons cross website

Hello there,
I'm updating a website for a friend and have put new role
over buttons on the index page. I created the buttons in
Illustrator and saved them in a new buttons folder as GIF files.
The old buttons were JPG so I couldn't just save them and they'd
automatically update.
Anyway, I've redone the index page and my question is can I
copy and paste these new role over buttons along with their links
to all the other HTML pages in the website? I'm using Dreamweaver
by the way. I want to avoid having to individually go in and update
each button by hand as it will take me for ever.
Thanks a million for any help!
M

Whether you do this manually, or with a sitewide find and
replace, you will
have to change the code for each rollover to accommodate the
filename
change. Why did you save as GIF instead of JPG? If you had
not changed the
filename, you could just upload the new images and they would
work on every
page.
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> Hello there,
>
> I'm updating a website for a friend and have put new
role over buttons on
> the
> index page. I created the buttons in Illustrator and
saved them in a new
> buttons folder as GIF files. The old buttons were JPG so
I couldn't just
> save
> them and they'd automatically update.
>
> Anyway, I've redone the index page and my question is
can I copy and paste
> these new role over buttons along with their links to
all the other HTML
> pages
> in the website? I'm using Dreamweaver by the way. I want
to avoid having
> to
> individually go in and update each button by hand as it
will take me for
> ever.
>
> Thanks a million for any help!
>
> M
>

Internet streamed Video and Audio Lag when I roll over buttons/change tabs

Well just as the title suggests when I am watching videos online, aka youtube, hulu, etc, everything runs fine. But if I decide that I also want to check my facebook or something similar while watching these movies, the video and audio become choppy, even to the point where my audio will become distorted, and the video will just plain freeze. I'm wondering if this is a computer issue and if so how can I fix it?
I'm on a late 2007 13" white macbook, with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM. I'm also using Google Chrome, but it also happens on Safari.

Well just as the title suggests when I am watching videos online, aka youtube, hulu, etc, everything runs fine. But if I decide that I also want to check my facebook or something similar while watching these movies, the video and audio become choppy, even to the point where my audio will become distorted, and the video will just plain freeze. I'm wondering if this is a computer issue and if so how can I fix it?
I'm on a late 2007 13" white macbook, with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM. I'm also using Google Chrome, but it also happens on Safari.

Flex and roll-over pop-ups.

My application is similar to a map with roll-over/roll-out popup boxes. Instead of a map, it is a process "chart" with about 50 "buttons" (in AS3 they are dynamic MovieClips) in about 50 different charts. In the end there will be about 2500 color-coded roll-over/roll-out popups in 50 different "pages.", each with text and two "buttons" to launch a SWF or a PDF.
Been learning Flex on and off for a year or so and I'm hypothesizing that Flex would make this app more maintainable and possibly more achievable. Can anyone respond in general to the popup and maintenance issues?
Thanks.

Thanks for your input. It was helpful to know that it is probably doable - at least seemingly from my description. As I "mess around" in FlexBuilder, I can see that it will be very doable and probably more so than simply using Flash/AS3.
By the way, I used the word "chart" a bit loosely. My application more resembles color-coded columns, each with a handful of text lables that act as Roll-Over buttons with textual information, but that also launch an interactive instructional SWF or a PDF (for that particular subject). I'm now wondering if I should use a drop down "something or other" to give the learner an option to play the swf, or get the PDF, then use a tool tip for the textual information?
Much thanks!
Doug Edwards

Making Movies play with Roll Over

Does anyone know how to make a movie roll over button, that
will start and stop were you left off. here are some examples:
http://www.fabchannel.com
http://www.diddy.com/diddy.php
The buttons are at the bottom.
Thanks so much,
GL

it will basically pause the movie on rollOut and resume on
rollOver.
so YES, it will start and play from where it has
stopped

How can i change the color of the text on a button in Roll Over or Click state (Cs5.5)

Hello,
Here is the problematic:
1° How can i change the color of the text on a button in Roll Over or Click state (Cs5.5)
- I've many button in a doc im creating
- the color of the buttons is white with black stoke & black text
- in roll over state i want them to inverse the color coding (the text white & bottom black)
- currently the text becomes invisible as black on black cant be seen (ive stroked it white but that looks ugly)
- i would just like to know if there is a function made for this?
My other questions:
2° Ive a presentation on which Ive created buttons which tigger pop-up animations
- i have 5 buttons which trigger animations
- the viewer can chose to Click on any of the buttons randomly
- the problem is once the animation is open how can it be close... either:
a) by it self after "40" seconds
b) when ther viewer clicks another button
3° Ive created buttons linking pages..
- "go to page xxx"
- when i do a preview and click on the buttons the links dont take me to the right pages
- is that normal? (maybe in preview its suppose to be like that)
4° I would like to intergrate YouTube videos in the presentation so they play inside the docment.. when i tried.. it said the 'link isnt a flash video'
- what should i do?
5° Once i export it into Swf. how how can i visualize it? or put it online?
Thank you for your time.

stlbbl4u wrote:
Hello,
Here is the problematic:
1° How can i change the color of the text on a button in Roll Over or Click state (Cs5.5)
- I've many button in a doc im creating
- the color of the buttons is white with black stoke & black text
- in roll over state i want them to inverse the color coding (the text white & bottom black)
- currently the text becomes invisible as black on black cant be seen (ive stroked it white but that looks ugly)
- i would just like to know if there is a function made for this?
You should setup Object Styles - these can also include Paragarph Styles that can be triggered when the Style is selected.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WS5CEDB81A-0011-4dc9-9DE8-AC7AD4C80076a.html
My other questions:
2° Ive a presentation on which Ive created buttons which tigger pop-up animations
- i have 5 buttons which trigger animations
- the viewer can chose to Click on any of the buttons randomly
- the problem is once the animation is open how can it be close... either:
a) by it self after "40" seconds
b) when ther viewer clicks another button
I'm not sure what you mean - I don't do files with Animations
3° Ive created buttons linking pages..- "go to page xxx"
- when i do a preview and click on the buttons the links dont take me to the right pages
- is that normal? (maybe in preview its suppose to be like that)
Does it work properly when you export it to the finished file?
4° I would like to intergrate YouTube videos in the presentation so they play inside the docment.. when i tried.. it said the 'link isnt a flash video'- what should i do?
InDesign won't link directly to youtube videos. I think your best bet would be to use Downloader to download the video and embed them directly in Indesign.
5° Once i export it into Swf. how how can i visualize it? or put it online?
Thank you for your time.
You can look up how to embed a SWF file into your HTML - but it depends what you mean by "online" there's a dozen ways to get a file "online".

Button doesn't appear until rolled over

I have a form button (
http://mermapillar.com/shop_onesies.php)
that has a rollover state using another image. My problem is that
the button does not display until it is rolled over.
Do I need to force the 'Active' state of the button to appear
immediately upon loading the page? How should I do this?

If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -
1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
2. Search engines don't parse Flash links - your site will
not be spidered
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what
will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you
move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?
It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons...
Which button?
What is this?
.style5 {
font-size: 96px96px96px96px
And why the extraordinary height -
.oneColElsCtr #container {
width: 840px;
background: #FFFFFF; /* the auto margins (in conjunction
with a width)
center the page */
border: 1px none #000000;
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center
on the body
element. */
height: 1900px;
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>I have a form button (
http://mermapillar.com/shop_onesies.php)
that has a
> rollover state using another image. My problem is that
the button does
> not
> display until it is rolled over.
>
> Do I need to force the 'Active' state of the button to
appear immediately
> upon
> loading the page? How should I do this?
>

Button roll-over animation with dynamic text

So I have a button I want to be able to use over and over. When you roll over the button, it does an animation and has a dynamic text box in it. Ovbiously im trying to make each text different for each button. What would be the smartest way to go about this? Thanks,
Dan

create a movieclip, put a stop() in frame one and add your "up" graphics, textfield etc put everything in its own layer. create another keyframe on that timeline and label the frame "over" and add new keyframes only on the layers that will change. ie, if the textfield doesn't change, don't put a keyframe on its layer. likewise, for a "down" frame, if you want one.
use instance names for everything in the movieclip that you want to control with actionscript. ie, your textfield(s) will need instance name(s). i usually use one textfield named tf.
then use:
btn1.tf.text = "test"
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,overF);
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,outF);
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,downF);
function overF(e:Event){
// if you have another textfield here assign its text
// likewise for other objects you want to change
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop("over");
function outF(e:Event){
// if you changed textfields in the other frames, reassign tf.text here
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop(1);
function downF(e:Event){
// if you have another textfield here assign its text
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop("down");

CP5: Roll-over hand not appearing on button

Ok - I have 2 different buttons and one the hand appears when the user rolls over the button and on the other it does not (even though I have the option checked in properties).
The two types of buttons I have:
1. transparent button over an image
2. text button
The transparent button over an image is the one having problems. I am not sure what I am missing - the button works, it goes to the correct place, but the hand that lets the user know to click is not coming up.
Thoughts?
Sarabeth

It sounds like you have inserted the image inside the button. That is a viable approach, having the image inside each button on the over frame (only, not in the hit frame)... saves you from needs to use any code. You make the button change color by cg=hanging its color in the over frame as well.
If you want to use actionscript for this, then you'll need to show what you have tried already.

Text buttons and roll over

Hi
I have text buttons and want to make the text bold when the user rolls over. (this is a menu)
Are there any other ways besides having the text as a master slide and then click boxes and roll overs, I realise I can do text buttons but there is a small icon that I need at the front of the text which will also need to be clickable.
thanks

Bold only when rolling over? That means that you will not be able to use it for HTML5 output? Only SWF is OK?
My first idea is to use the EventHandler widget of InfoSemantics (not free but you can download a trial version), because it can create a rollover event for your text button. Anyway you'll have to create a transparent text container (shape or caption) that has the Bold Text and appears when rolling over. If you don't want to go with that widget, you can simulate the same by using the Rollover slidelet (you'll need only the Area, can drag the Slidelet itself outside of the sldie), that has a rollover event that can trigger an action to show that previously hidden transparent text.
Welcome to the forum, just one tip: mention the version number (exact number, which you find under Help, About Captivate) when you post a question.
Lilybiri

Menu's photoshop buttons not rolling over

Hello all,
I have created some layered buttons in photoshop. All is well, they roll over and work lovely in simulator but when I create a build and open it in the Macintosh DVD player the rollovers dont roll!
What am I doing wrong?
As always thenks in advance
Matt

Repeat after me: DVD is not Flash, DVD is not Flash, DVD is not Flash...
The majority of DVD players don't have the option of rolling over as the majority of DVD players don't have a mouse attached to them.
Layered menus use a behind-the-scenes trick to do their work, involving a series of normal menus connected with auto-activating buttons. However, you wouldn't want buttons to auto-activate with a simple rollover in a software DVD player. Therefore, software players require two clicks for layered menus: one to select (which actually just triggers the auto-activating button and hops to the "selected" menu layer), and another to activate.
Yet another reason not to use layered menus, IMO.

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