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Pop-up Layers
A more powerful alternative allows you to display the contents of any layer as a result of mousing over,
or clicking, any object. This can be used for a range of different pop-up effects such as pop-up photos,
menus or detailed object descriptions.
To do this, place all the objects you want to pop-up on a new layer (in the Page & Layer Gallery
click New while you have a layer selected - don't use the MouseOver layer), then set the Mouseover
property (Mouse-over
tab of the Web Properties dialog) of the original object to trigger the display of this layer when you
mouseover any other object. For example you can make a pop-up, like this, appear as you mouse over
some text:
Here are the steps to create a pop-up text block like this:
1.
Click New in the Page & Layer Gallery, while you have a layer selected, to create a new
layer.
2.
Draw a rounded rectangle with the Rectangle Tool, click a (pale) color patch on the Color
Line to give it a fill color. For good measure give it a soft shadow (select the Shadow Tool and
just drag on the rectangle).
3.
Create a block of text on top of your rectangle. Select the Text Tool and drag diagonally across
the rectangle. Type your text. You probably want to hide the pop-up layer now, so just un-check
the 'eye' checkbox of your new layer.
4.
Back on the base (MouseOff) layer (click it in the Page & Layer Gallery to set this as current
layer) now select the text you want to trigger the pop-up, using the usual method (in the Text
tool). Then open the Web Properties dialog (right click and choose Web Properties or press
"Ctrl + Shift + W") and on the Mouse-over tab select the new layer from the Show pop-up
layer drop-down menu. Click OK.
5.
Preview and test your mouseover effect.
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