Make rollover captions and hotspots click instead

Hi again,

The way described in the blog post is OK if you use the buttons only to show, not to hide the object (image, text) which is not really a 'total' alternative to rollovers that will show/hide the object. Because there are several buttons on the slide, clicking another button will hide previous objects.

Could you explain which situations you want to cover: multiple rollovers on one slide, rollovers on different slides....

If you want a real toggle, you need indeed a user variable or more (if you have different 'rollover' alternatives on a slide) to track the visibility. And in that case I would also recommend an intitializing action on entering each slide that will hide everything, if you want to make it possible for the user to return to the slide. A toggle will need a conditional advanced action, not a standard action as in the blog. Something like this (user variable = v_visib initially set to 0)

    IF v_visib = 0

          Assign v_visib with 1

         Hide Grp...                            if you have multiple objects that can be made visible, group them and hide first that group before showing object

         Show Object...

    ELSE

          Assign v_visib with 0

          Hide Grp

Here you see another advantage of CP6: hiding a group of objects can save you a lot of statements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy09xPoP69A

This conditional action has to be triggered by the click box, button or shape button.

If you need rollovers all over your file, I would certainly recommend to reuse the visibility variables (can be reused on each slide). Have other timesaving scenarios, all depends on the situation. There is not a 'one-click' solution to replace a rollover by a click-version, too bad. It would be nice if this was provided. A rollover slidelet has a click event (less known) that can trigger an action as well.

Lilybiri