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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.
If you want the pop-up to only appear when you click, then select the same option on the Link
tab of the same Web Properties dialog instead.
Note:
The mouseover layer appears and disappears as you move the mouse pointer on and off the triggering
object. If you use a click method to display the layer (from the Link dialog), then the layer is revealed by
a click on the object, and is hidden when you click anywhere else on the page.
Pop-up Photos
There is a second, easier, way of showing enlarged photos from thumbnails, that does not involve
creating new layers. See the Photo section
earlier in this chapter. This method is better for when you have large pop-up photos as the pop-up
photos are not loaded until the thumbnail image is clicked.
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