Visible of sprite script trouble

hi list
I need to have a few sprites invisible on opening of my
program and have them appear when rolled over. I am using the
following script in the script channel above the play head:
on mouseLeave me
the visible of sprite 34 = 0
end mouseLeave me
Trouble is that when the program starts some or all of them
are visible. It works perfectly when I roll-over them subsequently
i.e. they all appear and disappear properly. All the sprites are
visible all the time when I create the projector.
I have re-booted several times to no avail. Any ideas?
Eoin

One of the effects of the visible of sprite property is that
this
property will make the sprite active or not. If a sprite is
not visible,
it is also not active and won't react to user events like a
rollover.
To have a sprite be not visible and still react to user
events use the
blend property of the sprite.
Be aware that the visible of sprite property belongs to the
sprite
channel and not to the sprite that may currently occupy that
channel. If
you turn off the visible property of a sprite channel, it
remains off
throughout the rest of the score unless it is turned on
again.
The blend property belongs to the sprite in the channel, so
setting a
particular sprite's blend to 0 will not effect any other
subsequent
sprite occupying the same channel later in the score.
If you want the sprites to be not visible initially, then set
the blend
property to 0 in the beginSprite function of a behavior
attached to each
sprite. Then you can change the blend property's value to 100
when you
want the sprite to be visible. For instance:
property thisSprite
on beginSprite me
thisSprite = me.spriteNum
sprite(thisSprite).blend = 0
end
on mouseEnter me
sprite(thisSprite).blend = 100
end
on mouseLeave me
sprite(thisSprite).blend = 0
end
Rob
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