Setting a fade in/out of a group

[Scott Rossi]

Hi Peter:

You need an object in the group to trap the mouse messages.  Add a
transparent button or graphic whose blendLevel is set to 100 that spans
the width/height of the group.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 2/6/14 11:21 PM, "Peter Bogdanoff" <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does a group receive mouse messages the same way as another control, such
>as a button?
>
>I have a control panel that I want to fade in and out with mouse enter
>and leave. The control panel is a group containing a number of buttons. I
>have a group script with mouseEnter and mouseLeave handlers to to do the
>fade of the group.
>
>The group script seems to receive the mouse messages from the individual
>buttons within the group (as expected). But I only want the group itself
>to respond to the mouse. If I trap the mouseEnter and mouseLeave messages
>in each element of the group nothing happens. The group itself doesn't
>seem to respond to the mouse.
>
>Without the trapped messages in each element the problem is a strobing
>effect as the mouse is moved horizontally and enters and leaves the
>individual buttons. Again, trapping those messages makes nothing happen
>as the group itself doesn't seem to be responding to the mouse movement.
>
>I'm using LC 6.1.3.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter Bogdanoff
>UCLA
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