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text and picture boxes, style sheets, and so forth. Then you select these "Creating interactive
building blocks" objects and make them interactive with three simple steps:
1
Name the object.
2
Define the user event (what the end user does with the mouse) that the object should
respond to.
3
Define the action or actions that should be triggered by the user event.
Hanging characters, sending, vertical story direction, and design grid features are not
available in Interactive layouts.
Types of Interactive layouts
There are three types of Interactive layouts:
• Presentation layout: An Interactive layout that you can export to create an SWF file. This
layout is where you put together SWF presentations.
• Button layout: An Interactive layout where you can create a multi-state Button. For more
about Button objects, see "Working with Button objects."
• Image Sequence layout: An Interactive layout where you can create a sequence of images
that is playable in an Animation object. For more about Animation objects, see "Working
with Animation objects"
Types of objects
An object is a QuarkXPress item (such as a text or picture box) to which you have assigned
a name and an object type. If you don't change a QuarkXPress item to an object, it simply
becomes part of the background. There are 10 kinds of objects:
• Basic object: A QuarkXPress item (such as a picture box, text box, or line) or a group of
items that has been named. Basic objects don't really do anything special by themselves,
but you can use actions to hide, show, or move them. Basic objects can also react to user
events.
• Button object: An object that contains a multi-state button. You can create buttons using
Button layouts.
• Animation object: An object that can move along a path, contain an image sequence, or
contain an image sequence and move along a path. An image sequence is a series of images
that you create using an Image Sequence layout (in an Interactive layout).
• Video object: A box that contains a movie.
• SWF object: A box that contains an imported SWF presentation.
• Text Box object: A rectangular box that contains text that the end user can select. A List
object is a special kind of Text Box object that enables the end user to select each line as a
separate item.
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