Richard Iredale
5th June 2003, 17:24
I am building a dynamic menu in Maestro. On the subpicture, I have little rectangular boxes that will serve to "frame" the selected motion video, and next to the boxes I have some text describing the title of that selected motion video destination.
I want the box and text to go into "selection mode" when the user hovers the mouse over that part of the menu. I could, of course, do this by simply painting a "highlight" box (using Maestro's terminology; I prefer to think of it as a "hotspot") big enough to enclose both the rectangular box graphic and the text graphic on the subpicture.
The problem is that, if I do so, the highlight box will overlap other highlight boxes on the menu. Instead of redesigning the subpicture graphics layout, I could do it a different way: I could define a highlight area for just the rectangular box graphic and a second, smaller highlight area for just the text graphic. But how do I "group" the two highlight areas together so that when one is selected the other one is selected also?
I want the box and text to go into "selection mode" when the user hovers the mouse over that part of the menu. I could, of course, do this by simply painting a "highlight" box (using Maestro's terminology; I prefer to think of it as a "hotspot") big enough to enclose both the rectangular box graphic and the text graphic on the subpicture.
The problem is that, if I do so, the highlight box will overlap other highlight boxes on the menu. Instead of redesigning the subpicture graphics layout, I could do it a different way: I could define a highlight area for just the rectangular box graphic and a second, smaller highlight area for just the text graphic. But how do I "group" the two highlight areas together so that when one is selected the other one is selected also?