Passing mouse events

[xian]

Thanks a lot Ken, that's an excellent suggestion, and probably how I 
will do this from now on! What I actually ended up doing this time was 
to use the "set blendLevel to xxx" command on the top object to get me 
the needed results. I would have done it the way you suggested, but I 
had soooo many images already sliced up and ready to use, except they 
weren't all the exact same size.

Thanks again,
Christian


On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 06:17  PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> Christian,
>
> One approach is to not add an overlay on top of an image, but to swap 
> images
> in a single image object. This would give you the transparency, the 
> single
> object that would have a script, but be able to use different images. 
> For
> example, suppose you had three graphics: one "normal" (not glowing), 
> one
> "pushed in" (glowing), and one "popped out" (glowing). You could then 
> do
> something like this:
>
> -- Script of the image with "normal" showing
> -- local property "glowing" keeps track of state
>
> on mouseDown
>   put img "pushed in" into me
> end mouseDown
>
> on mouseUp
>   if the glowing of me is true then
>     put img "normal" into me
>     set the glowing of me to false
>   else
>     put img "popped out" into me
>     set the glowing of me to true
>   end if
> end mouseUp
>
> Oh - one thing - it helps if the images are all the same size.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "xian" <xianman at mac.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:25 PM
> Subject: Passing mouse events
>
>
>> Hi all, I am trying to create some cool custom button effects with Rev
>> right now but I have a question. First, I'll explain how my buttons
>> work...
>>
>> Their appearance are big aqua inspired shapes, meant for use in a
>> touchscreen application. When the user touches a button I have semi
>> transparent overlays that become visible that give the appearance that
>> the button is not only "pushed in" but it also glows bright. When the
>> user releases their finger from the screen, the button pops back out
>> but remains lit up with another semi transparent overlay (dimmer than
>> the glow effect overlay). Then if the user pushes the button again,
>> same effects happen but the button goes back to it's non-lit state.
>>
>> So, my problem is that when the "lit up" overlay becomes visible, it
>> blocks the mouse events to the button that is underneath it. Is it
>> possible to pass all mouse events from one object to another? Or maybe
>> make an object "invisible" to mouse events? Or is their perhaps a
>> better way of doing what I'm trying to accomplish altogether?
>>
>> BTW, I can't use normal buttons with custom icon rollover effects
>> because my buttons are mostly round and I only want them to be
>> activated by their shape, not the square of a button. This is why I'm
>> using transparent .png files.
>>
>> TIA!
>> Christian
>>
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