Newbie question about image/button relationships

[Klaus Major]

Hi Jason,

> Hello all,
>
> This is my first post to the use-revolution mailing list, and I have a
> question about what images/buttons can (or cannot) do.  Our company has
> chosen Revolution to create prototypes of handset applications, so we
> can mock them up and find potential areas of confusion before 
> committing
> to the user interface of the application.  I only have a handful of
> programming knowledge, as my background is in Human-Computer
> Interaction, focusing on UI design and usability; this is also my first
> experience with a "card-based" language.
>
> Now, onto the issue.  I have an image of a mobile phone keypad (in JPG
> format), and I would like for the user to be able to click on specific
> areas, causing changes to occur on the "screen" (which is a field).  Is
> there a way to Revolution to watch for specific areas of the image to 
> be
> pressed (such as the coordinates of a "Send" key, vs. the coordinates 
> of
> an "End" key)?  Keep in mind, this is only one image, not a bunch of
> images.  If this is not possible, do I have to create a group of 
> buttons
> on top of the image that are all set so they are not visible?

Almost :-)

A bunch of buttons is OK, but when they are invisible (hidden) they are
also invisible to the mouse...

You can set their "ink" to "noop", then they will respond to 
mouseclicks etc...
but are invisible to our eyes :-)

Hope that helps.

> Thank you in advance for your help.  I'm happy that a mailing list like
> this exists!
>
> Best regards,
> Jason Silver
>
> Human Factors Engineer, Sr.
> QUALCOMM Inc.
> jsilver at qualcomm.com

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de