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1.
Please explain the toggle group rollover.
2. Does anyone know
if I can make an image field a rollover?
3. I
have 9 buttons, home, news,etc... I want to rollover each one with 2 change
to happen. Can any give me some hints?
Q.
Not a newbie, yet confused by the point and purpose of toggle group
rollovers. Is there a good tutorial or example somewhere that can show
me just what to use this feature for? I'm not getting it... I understand
the 4 different rollover states and have used them in a few different
sites - I just do not understand the toggle group thing.
A. The Toggle
group action in the Fireworks 2 behavior panel allows users to assign
a rollover function to a group of objects that allows them to interact
with one another by sending a cookie to the browser that tells the HTML
page which object has been clicked on and therefore should be displayed
in the Down state and it's JavaScript disabled until another object is
clicked on which releases the previously clicked object to display the
Up state, and setting the currently clicked object to display the Down
state with JavaScript disabled.
This allows you to have a single HTML page
that is "smart" in that it tracks what button has been clicked and releases
previously clicked buttons. The benefit is that you don't have to reload
a whole HTML file when an object is clicked. In a Frameset this is invaluable,
because one of the major headaches with targeting frames is that you can't
target a main AND a nav frame at the same time. The following TechNote
explains how to do this the old Fireworks 1 way: http://www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/ts/documents/rollovers_in_frames.htm I'm working on Fireworks 2 technotes as
we speak (and some of you posters will find your names in the "author" field) Using the toggle group behavior saved HOURs of time from having
to reset my behaviors in Dreamweaver when I tested it out. Now you can
set your toggle group to target the main frame and not worry about editing
umpteen different demo rollover HMTL files so they will be able to swap
with the html in both the main and the nav frames.
Hope this helps!
enthusiastically,
mark haynes
macromedia tech support March 24, 1999
Q.
Does anyone know if I can make an image field a rollover? I can't figure
it out since it is an input tag. Also, I just got FW2 and can't figure
out how to get FW to generate the code. I put a "simple rollover" behavior
on a slice object and tried to export. The dropdown menu no longer has
an option for rollover gif. How do I do it?
A. You specify
the rollover in the Behavior panel. When you export, you don't need to
do anything in the export preview but set your export settings. If you
are dealing with slices, this should already be done, but you can still
change things here. Then click on the NEXT button. Choose your settings
to use slices or guides if you are going to slice things up, set the HTML
style and where you want the HTML located relative to the images (this
is different in FW2- you will be exporting the images to a folder and
then telling the HTML where you want it to go relative to the images)
As long as you choose to export an HTML file, the code will be in the
head section of the HTML document.
enthusiastically,
mark haynes
macromedia tech support March 12, 1999
Q. I have 9 buttons,
home, news,etc... I want to rollover each one with 2 change to happen.
For example, when I rollover home I want the button to change slightly,
and I want a picture to pop up. When I rollover the news button, I want
the button to change and another picture to pop up over the previous home
picture. Can any give me some hints?
A. You can do this in Fireworks 2 but
not in Fireworks 1. All you have to do is to use the Swap image behavior
along with the rollover behavior. When you select the swap image behavior,
a dialog appears that gives you a graphic layout of your table. Click
on the cell that you want to change and then designate the frame you want
the image to come from in the pulldown below. You can even select an external
file to load into the cell. See the tutorial "Assigning Behaviors" in
the Help menu of FW2. enthusiastically, mark haynes macromedia tech
support