Hello All,
This is my first post here, and I have to say there is a lot of good information at these forums... Thanks already for what I have learned so far.
I am currently working on a web page and building a "button bar" across the upper section of the page. After a great deal of time and effort, I have only been able to successfully Adjust behaviors for mouse-over effects as you move the mouse over the buttons. I have assigned objects for buttons, and depressed buttons, and for some reason, I cannot make them "visible" or "hidden" in the behavior editor. Believe me... I have spent about 5 hours adjusting every setting I can think of in the behavior editor, as well as trying to preview within SSpro and various browsers. The Help index within SSPro has been great up until this point... Their "Behavior Editor" Help leaves a lot to be desired though.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks again!

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Hello All,
This is my first post here, and I have to say there is a lot of good information at these forums... Thanks already for what I have learned so far.
I am currently working on a web page and building a "button bar" across the upper section of the page. After a great deal of time and effort, I have only been able to successfully Adjust behaviors for mouse-over effects as you move the mouse over the buttons. I have assigned objects for buttons, and depressed buttons, and for some reason, I cannot make them "visible" or "hidden" usinf the behavior editor. Believe me... I have spent about 5 hours adjusting every setting I can think of in the behavior editor, as well as trying to preview within SSpro and various browsers. The Help index within SSPro has been great up until this point... Their "Behavior Editor" Help leaves a lot to be desired though.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks again!

hey im just started with this forums, becouse im a thick head and my english is bad.are you trying to buld a menu or just a button,there is some bad behavior with some browsers i notice 2. But mouse over should work perfect, it does for me in most browser i do a lot with Mouse over.i have notice that you have 2 give them position there maybe in the back i cant be seen..that the only thin i can think off.maybe set a short cut here so others can see hey there is a lot off help in here with very smart folks..

I'm not sure which part of the help you have been looking at. But under Help > Load Tutorials there is a tutorial on the Behavior Editor -- have you seen that?

Another factor is that the SSPro animation effects are all JavaScript based, so any JavaScript error elsewhere on your page can upset the animation. To eliminate this factor, I suggest first build your effects on a separate page.

Also, you may find that simple mouse effects will do what you want -- see the Buttons tutorial.

Thanks guys.. I hadn't actually looked at the Behavior editor in the tutorials Brucee. I'll give that a try first, then try building behaviors on a separate page as you suggested, and let you know how it goes. Eddie, I don't think it's a browser issie, I can't even get it to work in the SSPro program, and I've tried previewing it in both IE and FF. I'll let you guys know if I come up with a solution. Thanks again for the help

Well guys, I reviewed the tutorial in SSPro, and the values I was using are definitely the correct way to configure my desired actions. I also followed your advice Brucee, and tried building behaviors on a separate page in my project... No joy. Then I even went so far as to open up a new project and made two rectangular objects.. obj1 colored orange and obj2 colored green. I then overlayed them on each other, assigned behavior 1 to obj1 Trigger = mousebutton , Reset= mousebutton up.
Actions: When triggered= (Visible unchecked)
When Reset= (Visible Checked and Re-arm triggers Checked).
For obj2, I built Behavior 2 with Trigger= Mousebutton, Reset= Mousebutton up. Actions:When triggered= (visible Checked) When Reset= (Visible unchecked)(and I have played around with all the combinations of checking and unchecking the "re-arm triggers" in both the "When triggered" and the "When reset" sides of the dialog box. I was able to get obj1 to respond correctly, but no matter what I do, obj2 still does not respontd to the assigned behavior!! I hate to say it guys but I really think this is a bug in the program. I have not tried a re-install yet, but I'm thinking that might be in order. Also Brucee... you were mentioning about the Javascript aspect of this.. is there a possibility I need to update my java plugin? Just wondering. (Keep in mind... I'm pretty un-educated in this whole realm. Thanks again guys.

P.S. Notice how the plane in my avatar seems to be in a downward spiral.... Thats how I'm Feeling right now with this problem..AAAAAaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhh!!!
:^)

You might need to update your Java plugin but it has no bearing on your present problem. JavaScript is a different animal and comes as part of your browser.

If you are wanting a button to change color when you mouse over or click on it, there are easier ways to do it -- with simple mouse over effects. There are examples in the Button tutorial, and a more complicated drop-down menu in the DropDown tutorial.

Well, there may be an easier way, but it wouldn't get the effect I'm looking for. I'm looking to hide one object and simultaneously show another one below it giving the appearance of a button being depressed. It's actually very simple to do if the object editor worked right. I just upgraded to this 2.91 version, but I'm beginning to regret doing it. I didn't have any problems like this in version 2.7, but I'd like to keep some of the features in 2.91 such as animations and mobile device layouts.

I think your mouse events are getting mis-used. If obj1 has captured the mouse down and is waiting for the mouse up, how can obj2 detect the mouse down if obj1 still has control of the mouse? You are asking obj2 to steal the mouse down event from obj1 and use it for its own purposes.

If your objects are the same size and overlay each other, would not hiding obj1 automatically reveal obj2 if it is under it? Why would you need a behavior to display what is already there?

The SpecialFX->Mouse Effects are designed just for this type of situation.

Ahhhh.......... Thanks so much Larryd !! That's exactly what I needed!! (Also, now that I think of it, that is how I accomplished these effects in version 2.7

Thanks again Larry. Also thanks to all who replied to this problem. Newbies like myself can use all the help we can get.