AW: AW: Can you realise a transparent hover color for buttons?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Ken,
it's amazing, that there is still a solution, when you think you're at the
end of the features :)
Thank you for your ideas
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Ken Ray
> Gesendet: Freitag, 12. September 2008 08:49
> An: Use Revolution List
> Betreff: Re: AW: Can you realise a transparent hover color for buttons?
> 
> 
> > that does almost the trick, beside the blendlevel does affect not only
> the
> > backgroundcolor, but also the text.
> 
> So you want the everything but the text to go transparent? You mentioned
> "like the menu items of MS Office products on Win" - which version of
> Office
> are you talking about?
> 
> If you wanted to keep the text from blending but have everything else
> blend,
> you could overlay a transparent button on top of one that was blended 50%;
> if you need to have an icon attached to the button (so the text is below
> the
> icon), the transparent button's icon would be 0 and you would need to set
> the margins of the transparent button to shift the text label of the
> button
> down to match.
> 
> Here's an example of what I mean (Rev 2.9, Windows):
> 
> 1) Drag a push button off of the Tools palette
> 2) Open the inspector and assign icon ID 210001 (the stop sign) to the
> button, and change the height to 65.
> 3) Control-drag off a copy of the button.
> 4) Execute "set the blendLevel of btn 1 to 50" in the message box.
> 5) Select the copy (btn 2), and remove the icon, change the style to
> Transparent.
> 6) Execute "set the loc of btn 2 to the loc of btn 1" in the message box
> to
> overlay the two buttons.
> 7) Execute "set the margins of btn 2 to 4,50,4,4" in the message box.
> 
> You should now have a 50% blended button, but with black text. To see the
> hover effect, set the script of btn 2 to:
> 
> on mouseEnter
>   set the blendLevel of btn 1 to 0
> end mouseEnter
> 
> on mouseLeave
>   set the blendLevel of btn 1 to 50
> end mouseLeave
> 
> This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps it will give
> you some ideas of what you can do...
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> 
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