Possible to have mouse activated slider with buttons for selection

Question

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has/is or if this can be dome easy enough....
For example, instead of placing a row of buttons on the bottom of the template, instead, is it possibloe to have a mouse activated slider that the buttons are on and is activated when the mouse hovers over it.....?
Hope that explanation is clear enough...;-)
Cheers
Rossco

Answer 1

Captivate 7 has an option to show playbar on hover.  It becomes available when you select Overlay Playbar.  But this only applies to the standard skins that come with Captivate.  It won't help your specific need to have a set of buttons appear on hover over a hit area.
It should be possible to do what you want.  But you'll need to group the buttons, give the group a name, create separate advanced actions that apply a fly-in and fly out effect to the group, then execute these actions via an event.  In your case you want the event to occur as a result of a rollover and rollout on a hit area.
Captivate's slidelet object has a rollover event, but no rollout event you can use.
The only way I know to have both rollover and rollout events is to use the Infosemantics Event Handler widget:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/event-handler-interactive
Free trial version here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/download-free-trial-widgets