More vexing button questions.

[usegobos webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hello, I had two quick button questions. First, I have made a 10 frame animation that I would like to use as the mouse over for a navigation button. I have it together as a symbol, but I can't add any behaviors to it, (like mouse over) and I can't seem to add it to the button editor without it messing up the frames. Have I gone about this all wrong or what?
Secondly, how do I add a mailto: functionality to a hyperlink/button? I want to have a big "Email us" button that people can click on to activate their email. Is this possible?
Also, I am assuming that I can't set a slice as the target of a buttons URL since no one is responding to that. I was wanting to have a new page open within the slice, maintining the rest of the site, but I gues thats a frames issue.

Thanks for any help.

Al

[Richie Bee]

Fireworks can't handle this kind of mouse over because you need to use two
different file formats (GIF or JPG plus animated GIF) on a single slice.
What you can do is add the image swap in Fireworks, export your work (this
gives you a static two stage rollover), then replace the second frame
graphic with a separately exported animated GIF using your HTML editor.
You should note that animated GIF's are not an economical file format at the
best of times. I think the chance of your visitors getting a kick out of
them as mouseovers is less than the disappointment of excessive download
time. Flash would be a better format for this kind of thing.

Rich



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> Hello, I had two quick button questions. First, I have made a 10 frame

animation that I would like to use as the mouse over for a navigation
button. I have it together as a symbol, but I can't add any behaviors to
it, (like mouse over) and I can't seem to add it to the button editor
without it messing up the frames. Have I gone about this all wrong or what?

> Secondly, how do I add a mailto: functionality to a hyperlink/button?

I want to have a big "Email us" button that people can click on to activate
their email. Is this possible?

> Also, I am assuming that I can't set a slice as the target of a

buttons URL since no one is responding to that. I was wanting to have a new
page open within the slice, maintining the rest of the site, but I gues
thats a frames issue.

>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Al
>
>