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<br>If it could be self-contained within the button, that would be handy.<br>I'm not very good with Flash itself.<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:40:36 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: hotspots - Flash folks<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">9 slice scaling allows you define a movie clip with a central area that scales normally, and a border, that doesn’t.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Don’t know how / if you can do it in code.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I would have the button draw itself at the size required.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 27 February 2011 18:49<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: hotspots - Flash folks</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br>Ok, if I fill the button with anything and set that alpha to 0, it acts just like a button.<br>(If I left the center unfilled, only the outer pixel frame was active)<br><br>So the real kicker is this:<br><br>The outer frame resizes (of course) when I change the button w,h in Xerte.<br>e.g. the frame that was 1 pixel thick is now 3 pixels or whatever thick.<br>Is there any trickery that will vector the button while leaving that outer frame the same thickness?<br><br>Dave<br><br><br><br>From: d_b_burnett@hotmail.com<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Subject: RE: hotspots<br>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:38:08 -0500<br><br><br>hey, a preliminary test indicates the transparent button thing might work.<br><br>Any of you Flash graphic wizzes out there that can whip up a transparent button with some sort of shadow around the outer pixels that won't blow up when resized?<br>Even a pixel or 2 black on bottom/right, white on top/left.<br>Just needs over and down states (and they can be identical actually.<br><br><br></span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From: d_b_burnett@hotmail.com<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Subject: hotspots<br>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:58:45 -0500<br><br><br>Is there any sort of precedence I can set up that will allow overlapped HS to both function?<br>Or do I need another architecture?<br><br>Issue:<br><br>I have a graphic with multiple hotspots.</span></p><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The hs areas need to both react when they are rolled over, (draw a shadow effect to indicate user over hs) and when they are clicked (show feedback).</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The feedback also needs to erase on rollout.<br>(This is a proto, so I can't use a button, unless it's transparent. Hmm there's a thought). <br><br>If over a spot I lay 2 hotspots (1 click=0, another click=1) then no matter how I order them in the flow, the hs higher in the tree blocks anything below it from functioning.<br>Also, if I lay a catchall in there, it block everything else.<br><br>I suspect I'm using a hammer when I should be using a saw.<br>Is the transparent button feasible?<br>Maybe a transparent png hot object? (or do i run into the same precedence issue?)</span></p></div><br>
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