Any way to animate the popup layer?

[jpdp]

I have seen some stuff on websites that look pretty cool like when you click on a text area a layer slides in.
Is there anyway to do this with Xara? Or should I give up on the dream ?

[xtom]

You can fade popups but there's no support for moving them. It would be great if you could. Best bet to achieve it would be to use placeholders and jquery.

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

You can have animation on a pop up layer or a mouse over layer. On my illustration page, mouse over the last image, the one that reads FLASH ANIMATION http://www.gwpriester.com/vector-Illustration.html. The Flash was linked to on a pop up layer.

I am fairly confident you could accomplish the same thing with a button.

[gwpriester]

I did some experimentation. First of all their is a bug in Xara's SWF export, and a limitation to be addressed.

I created a Flash animation for a mouse over button. But the button exports with the page background even though I opted to export the drawing only. This is a known bug.

And you cannot make the page small enough for one button. There is a minimum page size and a normal button is smaller than that size.

So, here is the work around.

1. Make the New Animations page size 300% the size of your button. For example for a 20 x 110 button make your page size 60 x 330px.
   
2. Scale your mouse over button to the new page size.
   
3. Create your Flash animation and export it.
   
4. Create a new MouseOver layer. Copy the button and paste in place on the MouseOver layer. Use the Placeholder > Replace with Flash option.
   
5. Replace with your SWF file.

You will need to link the attached SWF file.

[jpdp]

Hi Gary,
Thanks for that.
I was trying to avoid flash as it doesn't work on the iPad.
I found that you can do it with Dreamweaver.
But for now, I will just live without it.
Would have been nice.