Setting a fade in/out of a group

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Thanks, Scott.

So I put a transparent button into the group on top of all the others. The effect now works great. But how do I send a mouseClick to the other buttons in the group that are underneath it?

Peter

On Feb 7, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> 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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