Onshow event needed for using behavior with AP elements

Question

Lector has "onShow" and "onHide" actions for layout objects (the equivalent of AP elements). They are my favorite and most used actions. Unfortuneately, Lector will does not reveal the code, so I can't see how they accomplish the actions. I am using Dreamweaver to build my wife's elementary school library web site. I want to use the same onShow and onHide actions (events/functions) for AP elements in Dreamweaver, but they don't exist on the tag inspector list for using with behaviors. Does anyone know how I can make behaviors work when an AP element hides or shows on the screen? This is not the same thing as showing or hiding an AP elemeent for events such as onClick or onmouseover. I find it very curious why Dreamweaver does not have onShow or onHide events along with onClick, onMouseOver, etc. Thanks.

Answer 1

"Lector" was a late night typo. It is "Lectora", which is an industry leading WBT development tool. My main gripe about it is its proprietary nature--over protective of the code it generates. Lectora will not allow you to see the complex xml code it generates when it creates a web page. (When I display one of the Lectora generated pages in Dreamweaver, it is all xml giberish.) But Lectora is an easy to use, well organized, powerful, automated WBT development tool. Two of its most useful actions for AP elements are the onShow and onHide actions. So when you show or hide an AP element, the physical action of the element hiding or showing will cause a behavior to occur on the same AP element or another AP element.
For example, say the mouseover Show event for "Element0" causes "Element1" to become visible on the screen. The onShow action provided by Lectora can cause a behavior to automatically occur on Element1 when it "shows" on the screen--no mouse action on elment1 is needed to cause the behavior to happen. Dreamweaver seems to require some sort of mouse action with regard to Element1 to cause a behavior to happen. A problem seems to occur with stacking AP elements and having to use exclusively mouseover and mouseout events on an AP element to cause a behavior(s) to occur. The browser seems to always get confused as to which of the stacked AP elements is supposed to be acting on the mouse action, even if the z order is correct. That is why the onShow and onHide events are so poweful--they don't require another mouse action while the mouse pointer is over the stacked group of AP elements to cause a behavior to happen on the element that was just caused to show or one that was just exposed by another element being hidden. With Lectora's onShow and onHide actions, it works all the time--the browser never gets confused.
The onShow and onHide actions in Lectora are my favorite because they don't require a second mouse action on an element to cause a behavior to happen. I find that very distressing in Dreamweaver in trying to create highly interactive web pages in Dreamweaver that I can't use onShow and onHide events. It is hard to imagine that only the Lectora creators have the ability/genius to create onShow and onHide code that works for AP element on web pages.
I can't show you any examples because I create WBT for Federal government projects and I am not allowed to publicly display any of the content. And I can't tell you how Lectora accomplishes it bacause I can't understand their complex, criptic, auto-generated xml code. So I hope I have been able to adequately explain problem here.I can't use Lectora to create the web pages for my wife because she needs to be to maintain her web site using Dreamweaver.
Thanks in advance for your help.