Can you realise a transparent hover color for buttons?

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Thu Sep 11 16:40:37 EDT 2008


Bonsoir Josh,

I agree but...
Here we always build multi-lingual applications (probably because we  
are a tiny market :-) then such a solution can't satisfy us.
And I think that Tiemo is in the same situation...

Le 11 sept. 08 à 21:47, Josh Mellicker a écrit :

> The way we have done this, is:
>
> 1. make a cool button with the rounded rectangle (with Scott  
> Rossi's awesome gradient tool) and name it "btnBkgd"
>
> 2. create text (use any font, and Rossi's tool to "burn" it into an  
> image so it doesn't matter if the user has the font) and position  
> it over the button
>
> 3. group the two, and name the group "whateverRolloverButton"
>
> 4. then, in the card script:
>
> on mouseEnter
>   IF the short name of the owner of the target contains  
> "RolloverButton" THEN
>     set the blendlevel of img "btnBkgd" of grp (the owner of the  
> target) to 50 -- or whatever
> end mouseEnter
>
> and a mouseLeave that is similar...
>
> That way, you can make as many buttons as you want without having  
> to script each one. Also, the reason for detecting rollover on the  
> group is that if you put the mouseEnter on the text or background  
> or both, you get a weird "flickering" as the mouse goes from where  
> the text is to the background image.
>
> I just wrote this from memory, sorry if it is unclear, if you want  
> me to post the whole thing let me know.

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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