Mouse-overlap

[gbpatriot]

Pop-up layers is a simple and elegant solution, but, if employed site-wide, produces an unweildly layer list.
Early versions of Photoshop suffered the same problem until Adobe introduced a layer tree where related layers could be nested/grouped into sub-folders.
Perhaps Xara could consider adopting a similar layer tree in later versions of XWD?

A very attractive interactive map by the way.

Ray

[jclements]

John, I expect that is it not possible because of browser technology or someone else would already have it in a program by now, but I might as well ask.

?? Is there anyway WXD could be modified so the mouseovers/'hotspots" would conform the actual object shape rather that to its rectangular-selection area ??

Something like, mask the clickable area using alpha channels.

[nickydude]

You mean like if you wanted a circle as a button? I can be done, see attached. Is that something like what you're after.

[daniels]

No I don't think so - if I may answer (be)for(e) jclements - because here, too, the clickable area is a "Rectangle surrounding object" instead of the "Shape of object" (Flash export only).
So can't it be done outside Flash? (Dreamweaver has a possibility to draw clickable areas in all kinds of shapes (clickable map function).)

I'm happy with my clickable country list but I would have preferred the Shape of object thing, so I could have made both the list and the map clickable, as was the original plan. Still loving XWD though!

(Thanks for liking my map, Ray!)

[covoxer]

Is there anyway WXD could be modified so the mouseovers/'hotspots" would conform the actual object shape rather that to its rectangular-selection area

Yes. This can be partly implemented with imagemaps.