Odd-shaped buttons . . .

[stephen barncard]

One can do the 'map thing' with rev, and it's not to hard.   The 'Freehand
polygon" can do this, and create an "state shaped" object that can be
clicked on. It can be an invisible 'region' like a web click map, if you set
the opaque to true and turn the blending to 100.

2009/2/4 Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu>

>
> On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
>  One criticism that has been levelled against Runtime Revolution
>> is that it seems to provide no way of making non-rectangular buttons.
>>
>> Of course one can make PGN and GIF images with transparent areas;
>> but this doesn't really help if one wants to make (for instance) an
>> interactive piece with adjacent, odd-shaped objects.
>>
>> Many years ago my boys had a Dorling-Kindersly CD with a map
>> of the world, and, infantile chap that I am, I spent hours
>> clicking extremely near to the boundaries of the respective
>> borders of countries on the map: and, guess what, they were
>> country-shaped buttons. That was in 1996 (!!!!!!), and the CD
>> had been built with MacroMedia Authorware.
>>
>> Now, 12 years later, it might not be a bad idea if we could catch
>> up with MacroMedia (well, at least in this respect) and find a way to
>> produce odd-shaped buttons . . .
>>
>> Thoughts, Solutions (um?), Ideas . . .
>>
>
> Richmond,
>
> I had the same issue (exactly the same as it turns out) a couple of years
> back. I was making a demo matching exercise for my students in which they
> were to drag country names onto a map with the country outlines. It turns
> out that Rev can handle this beautifully! The key, I found after some
> searching, is to use the within() function, rather than the 'is within'
> operator, to do the boundary checking. As it turns out, 'is within' only
> considers the rectangle of the object, while within(), when applied to image
> objects, only returns true if the location you're checking is within a
> non-transparent area of the image.
>
> To see how my demo turned out, run the following in the message box:
>
> go stack URL "http://asay.byu.edu/MatchingExKey.rev"
>
> Regards,
>
> Devin
>
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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Stephen Barncard
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