MouseOver glitch or what?

[philt]

Trying to get a handle on make-my own navbar. I think I have things set up correctly for this very simple test of navbar with sub menu items (attached .xar file). Seems to work okay in Export and Preview mode--except that after a first pass with the mouse over B2 button B6 does not show the highlight on a second pass. Same thing with button B4. Not sure if this is a Xara glitch or something else. Any help appreciated of course.

[xtom]

Seems to work fine here, I can't reproduce what you're saying in the preview.

[gwpriester]

Works fine for me Phil

[philt]

Thanks Xtom and Gary. Well, it does work fine after all, but only after doing a full export. In preview mode, no, the glitch shows up. Mouseover on button 2 for instance and mouseover works okay; b5 and b6 highlight as expected. Mouseover a second time and b6 fails to show the mouseover state. No big deal I guess, but it confused me enough that it led to this post. But I take it that for you guys, it worked okay in preview mode? Grateful for your time.

[philt]

Additional note: adding a fade command seems to correct this problem in preview mode.

[Xhris]

Hi. I checked out your file and there are a few minor errors in the navbar which may explain why it’s not always working correctly. For example, B6 calls a mouseover layer explicitly via the mouseover tab in web properties, which is unnecessary as mouseover layers should just work. I also noticed that the popup layer and its corresponding mouseover layer name are not the same (I was surprised it worked at all actually, as I always thought they had to be identical!).

I've attached a modified xar file with the navbar working correctly in case it helps. Essentially, there are buttons on the mouseoff layer with corresponding buttons on the mouseover layer. Each button-pair is softgrouped together. The slight difference is B2, whose mouseoff is set to reveal the popup layer via the mouseover tab in web properties. B2’s mouseover should be on the popup layer and not the original mouseover layer; however, both are still softgrouped (one designed advantage of softgroups is they allow inter-layer grouping).

I have videos which can help you learn how to create navbars in websites which might help further.