Layers Show/Hide

I am trying to add a behaviour where a layer shows when a user places the
mouse over a button which I have achieved. However, the layer contains links
to other documents so I want it to stay open so the user can click on the links
as with mouse out it just closes. My problem is that when the user hovers over
another button I want a different layer to show and stay open as it also
contains other links. It seems the first layer opened will not close. If I
have confused you as much as I have confused myself I apologise but I thank you
in advance for any help.

Makes sense, however...what is the sense of the button if the link is within
the pop-up?? Most people have a mouseover pop up information. The button
is the link.

Anyways, in this case, you would have a mouse over command perform a show on
the layer you want and hide all the other layers on mouse over. Remove the
mouse out commands on each button.

This will pop-up the layer on a mouse over and keep it visible until you
mouse over a different button.

"SteveMckenna" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am trying to add a behaviour where a layer shows when a user places the
mouse over a button which I have achieved. However, the layer contains
links
to other documents so I want it to stay open so the user can click on the
links
as with mouse out it just closes. My problem is that when the user hovers
over
another button I want a different layer to show and stay open as it also
contains other links. It seems the first layer opened will not close. If
I
have confused you as much as I have confused myself I apologise but I
thank you
in advance for any help.

Button1 ---> Layer1
Button2 ---> Layer2

Button1 - onMouseOver show Layer1 and hide Layer2
Button2 - onMouseOver show Layer2 and hide Layer1

The trick will be to devise a method to hide the last layer shown if you
stop mousing over buttons. To do this, you could use a closer layer, i.e.,
another layer (with the lowest z-index so that it underlies all other
layers) containing a transparent GIF image sized so that it is about 20
pixels wider than the widest "link layer". Select the transparent GIF
image, and apply a show-hide behavior to hide Layer1, Layer2, ..., and
ITSELF. Then hide this layer. Now change the behaviors on the buttons as
follows -

Button1 - onMouseOver show Layer1 and Closer, and hide Layer2
Button2 - onMouseOver show Layer2 and Closer, and hide Layer1

Geddit?

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"SteveMckenna" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am trying to add a behaviour where a layer shows when a user places the
mouse over a button which I have achieved. However, the layer contains
links
to other documents so I want it to stay open so the user can click on the
links
as with mouse out it just closes. My problem is that when the user hovers
over
another button I want a different layer to show and stay open as it also
contains other links. It seems the first layer opened will not close. If
I
have confused you as much as I have confused myself I apologise but I
thank you
in advance for any help.