How do I add an effect to a SmartShape on hover?

[Burner1809]

How do I add an effect to a smartshape on hover. For example, I've created a green rectangle which is a smartshape and is being used as a button. I have two instances of this button on a slide and am trying to do the following:

1) SmartShape A (Green rectangle) = On hover, I want this green rectangle to change it's fill color to blue.

2) SmartShape B (Green rectangle) = On hover, I want this rectangle to have a 4px yellow border (the original had no border, i.e. stroke width =0)

How would I do this without using additional objects?

For example, I don't want to have a duplicate of this smartshape (for each instance), that is used as a rollover shape which superimposes the original shape on hover -- I dont even know if that would work, sounds okay in theory though.

But it would be great if someone could help me with this, I've been struggling for some time to figure out this effect.

Thanks so much,

Sean

[Lilybiri]

Hover is not an event that can trigger something, with the exception of the rollover slidelet area. Maybe you'd need the Eventhandler widget of InfoSemantics (for SWF-output only).

Even your suggestion with the rollover shape will not work, because the rollover area will have to cover the shape button and thus will take away its functionality as button.

Lilybiri

[Burner1809]

Thanks Lilybiri. Yeah, I thought as much and was hoping there would be a sort of workaround. I don't know, for some reason I have a fear of using widgets (probably because I've never used them before).

It's sad that Captivate doesn't allow this natively, I wish this is an addition to Captivate 8.

-Sean

[Captiv8r]

LOL, in the words of my father: Wish in one hand and spit in the other. See which one gets full faster!

It's the same issue I have with the title of an old book written by Napoleon Hill. Its name is "Think and Grow Rich". It's missing a word! *ACT*. Nobody just thinks and grows rich. Everyone must *ACT* on their thoughts.

So that's why I'm posting. Sure, it's great to state that you wish something were a certain way in Captivate or any other app. What you need to do is to tell Adobe about it. And you do that by visiting the link below and completing the wish form!

http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Cheers... Rick