Flash Map Rollover Animation Quirck

**wolfpup187** · 30 June 2014, 10:08 PM

I have been working very hard on a an animated map where the when you rollover the county it changes color and then when you click it takes you to a page with information for that county.

In 1 county (Rio Blanco) the rollover effect doesn't work. I have gone over it and over it and can't find a problem. I have tried deleting the frame and redoing - still not working.

Any help greatly appreciated.

(None of the links to the information pages have been applied yet).

**gwpriester** · 30 June 2014, 10:53 PM

I am not a Flash person but maybe Egg or Acorn can spot the problem.

I would have done this using layers. But maybe it is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

The problem with either Flash or layers when you are working with such complex shapes is the co-ordinates are probably rectangles and this could be causing a small county not to be recognized.

I just tried this with a few map shapes as layers and even cheating a bit (using same color smaller shapes) two of the adjoining shapes appear when rolling over one of the shapes.

I'm going to move this to the Xara Flash chat.

**Egg Bramhill** · 30 June 2014, 11:49 PM

Wolfpup, can I ask what version of Xara you're using to create this animation?

**wolfpup187** · 01 July 2014, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Wolfpup, can I ask what version of Xara you're using to create this animation?

Xara Designer Pro X9

Also, I don't think the overlap is a problem as Gary had suggested. There are much smaller and closer counties that the rollover is working on just fine.

**Egg Bramhill** · 01 July 2014, 12:55 AM

Fine, that's what I use but I have a big issue with mine, if I select a county and hit Ctrl + Shift + W ( or select Web Properties from the top menu) it only opens the Web Links dialogue which of course is the wrong dialogue window, for example it only allows "on click" events & no option for "on roll-over" so I don't think I'll be able to help you with your problem but I've looked at it closely and can't see anything wrong with the file.

**wizard509** · 01 July 2014, 02:19 AM

I couldn't see anything wrong either except for the first frame seems weird. So I deleted that one and now it seems to work. At least the flash plays.
See what you think.

CountyMapFlash.xar