Should Be Easy

[Chris M]

This should be simple. Is it me or the software?

Create 3 pages
Create 2 Hamburger icons and 2 menus on layer 'menu' and layer 'menu(lock)'
Set left hamburger to open Pop-Up Layer menu (slide in from left)
Set right hamburger to open Pop-Up Layer menu(lock) (slide in from right)
Hamburgers and layers set to Repeat On All Pages
Test - all works as expected

Make hamburgers and layers Sticky -
Layer menu fails to go to linked page, closes instead
Layer menu(lock) still working as expected

Web Properties set to Scroll (Vertical)
Both hamburgers fail to link unless on page 3

Nutshell:
Just making the objects Sticky is enough to break the standard pop-up layer offering.
The combination of Sticky and Scrolling pages breaks everything.

But wait, there's more!
Delete everything, then repeat the above, but do not use any animation when calling the pop-up layer.

Now with the Sticky and Scrolling combo:
Layer menu still failing because of the Sticky effect
Layer menu(lock) working as expected. So the animation is breaking it?

Add an animation afterwards and it is simply ignored. So, if you want a scrolling site with sticky menu buttons and sticky pop-ups you can't have animation. Or can you?

Open menu(lock), highlight everything and open the Web Animation menu. Under Reveal/Scroll choose a Reveal Animation and you will be told 'objects on pop-up layers can't have reveal applied'. But, hang on a minute. If you cut the objects from the layer and paste them on the MouseOff layer, apply the reveal animation and then cut/paste them back into the layer, it works!!!

To recap:
I want a simple scrolling site with a sticky pop-up menu that will smoothly transition onto the page. It isn't a lot to ask. Xara has all the tools to make that happen, as you would expect from WYSIWYG software...except it appears to be broken in several places.

Test .xar without any repeats, stickies, or animations.
Basic Scroll.xar