Rollover-type behavior? (Newbie interface question)

[JackP]

I am a relative FileMaker newbie, and so far I have mostly worked with web interfaces using CDML. I have a need now to provide some slightly fancy behavior in the actual FileMaker interface. What I'm looking for is something like a JavaScript rollover.

Basically, I want an image with a number of 'hotspots' which, when rolled over or perhaps clicked, expand to to provide some informational text and perhaps another image. I can set up a button which pops up a confirm dialog, or I can set a field as a dropdown list which pulls text from a value list, but those are both kludgy and unattractive.

Does anyone have any ideas for me?

TIA!

[Andrew Q]

Hi. I too am in a similar predicament. Furthermore, I'm trying to figure out how to draw the shapes since FM only has fixed shapes.

[Genx]

Jack - Assuming a tooltip would do, you could attach these to your object (would be activated on rollover). Downside is (provided you don't have fm 8 advanced seeing as it's not in your profile or your post) you need fm 8 advanced or someone with 8 advanced to do it for you.

Andrew - welcome to the forums :, if the filemaker shapes aren't enough, draw your shapes externally and insert them into filemaker, one thing though, keep the size of the file in mind - especially if this solution is going to be hosted and you aren't planning on splitting your data and your GUI - externally created images can sometimes bloat the file and lead to unecessary packets clogging the network and slower over all data transfer.

~Genx

[Andrew Q]

Thanks for your quick reply Genx.These forums are a real help to ppl like me.

I did think of doing what you recommendd but it would be way to much hassle to draw the shapes externally because it would involve a lot of shapes. Therefore I guess I will be still stuck in the thinking stage.

As mentioned by Jack, I'm thinking of something like that because actually I'm trying to convert my exisiting solution which was done in dreamweaver to FM. Reason being was because its getting real troublesome to keep updating some of the info on it and therefore I though by using FM it would help a lot of the database part.

[Genx]

In the end, if you're using filemaker for the backend /database portion it would seem that you're only limited by the language your using to build your site with dreamweaver yes?

[Andrew Q]

Yeah. That would be the case. If only I knew how to configure dreamweaver to work with FM in that particular way. I suppose it should be possible but most prob my technical skill is not up to that level.