Image Map Bug in Dreamweaver CS4

Question

I've included a video sample of Dreamweaver's inability to
draw polygonal hotspots in Design view on an image map. The image
is inside an absolutely positioned div tag. After clicking the
first corner, the drawing tool is deactivated. A second click to
create the next corner point selects the underlying image.
In this video sample, I'm using Dreamweaver CS4 on a MacBook
Pro with a 2.4 GHz Intel processor and OS X 10.5.6. The image is
actually a transparent PNG. I'm very careful to click on an opaque
area, but that shouldn't make a difference.
The workaround is to open the image in a blank HTML file,
create the polygonal hotspots there and then copy and paste the
code back into the original HTML page. Adobe should really consider
fixing this.
The video can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRZGUi53PbI

Answer 1

Good review, David. Thanks for the analysis!
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"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>> Or whether it is an issue. For example, the fact
that others are not
>> able to reproduce the problem doesn't bode well in
that regard....
>
> I've just been reading the comments on the CS3 Livedocs
about the same
> problem. Two things stood out: the problem seems to
arise when the image
> is inside a div, and several people said the answer was
to create the
> image map in a new page. Being inside a div should not
present a problem,
> because all my tests have used an image directly inside
a div.
>
> What interested me was that there was no problem
creating an image map in
> a new page. Dreamweaver uses JavaScript in the
background to run a lot of
> its functionality. If there are any errors in the
underlying code, or if
> the code is complex, Dreamweaver can't analyze the page
properly. Another
> possible cause of problems is insufficient memory. If
you have the minimum
> RAM, but other programs are running, this is likely to
cause Dreamweaver
> to fail to function correctly, particularly on large,
complex pages.
>
> So, if Dreamweaver fails to create a hotspot on an
existing page, try it
> on a new page. If it works in the new page, it sounds as
though it's a
> problem with the complexity of the page and/or memory.
If it fails to work
> on the new page, it's back to square one. :(
>
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> David Powers
> Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
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