Making buttons appear when highlghted

dth122 wrote on 12/5/2009, 3:47 PM

Is there any way to suppress the display of buttons until they are highlighted? I want to create a menu where there's a border around highlighted items, rather than the transparent rectangle. I assume there should be a way to do this with masks, but I can't figure out how to have the button media hidden by default and appear only when selected.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
- Dave

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 12/5/2009, 4:59 PM

You can create a custom mask in whatever shape you want.

I show you how to do this in my book. Using Photoshop or a similar program, you create either a black shape with no background (Transparency) or a white shape with a black background (Intensity) and link to the graphic as Mask Mapping on the Button Properties/Highlight panel.

jetdv wrote on 12/6/2009, 5:34 AM

Vol 2 #6 of my newsletters explains how to do this.

dth122 wrote on 12/6/2009, 10:24 AM

Thanks! A combination of your info and some trial and error got this working perfectly.
- Dave