mouse-over info. panels

[digitalpencil]

Hi guys,
I'm wondering if you can direct me to a tutorial that can show me how to create mouseover info. panels similar to the low-opacity panels on the file at this address

http://fr.bundesregierung.de/europa/4_0_0_daten/landkarte/europaKarte.htm

Any help you can give and/or tutorials you can direct me to are much appreciated,
David Grant.

 

[TheConeHead]

how I probably would have done that is to put all the panels in one mc and change the frame for that mc depending on which country (button) you roll over...

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.virtual-fx.net/tutorials/html/tooltips.html

This would be one way of doing it, except that rather than following the mouse cursor, the movie clip (half-transparent) would be set in a fixed position. Rolling over invisible buttons, or using onRollOver functions on the country buttons would direct the movie clip to one particular frame corresponding to which button was rolled over. When outside of buttons, the movie clip is either set to be invisible, or sent to it's first blank keyframe, thus also becoming invisible.



Regards,

 

[billwatson]

dont mess around with frames...no need

dont much matter how the data is loaded..text file , XML, database...same principle applies...loadvars and load or sendandload

1 dynamic text box with a white background

something like

france.onRollOver = function(){
mytext._visible = true;
mytext.text = myloadvars.france
}
france.onRollOut = function(){
mytext._visible = false;
}

with a little bit of imagination the code for all the buttons/movieclips can be condensed into a few lines but endless repeats of the above would work just fine

 

[oldnewbie]

How charming!

Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Oh and Digitalpencil! Bill's proposal would work assuming, you only have text and not flags (as your example link) or any other graphic elements.

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

adding graphic elements is not a problem....there is an excellent extension to the textfield class allowing for full implematation of graphic elemets ..smilies etc into text fields


be happy to give you a link and help you with modifications if thats the way you want to go