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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 (or when you click on the
pop-up layer's close button if you have turned off the "Close pop-up automatically" option shown
above).
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.
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