Adding special effects to screen shows

You can add these special effects to screen shows, activated by a mouse movement or click:



<A NAME="ljugr_highlight_graphic_or_text_block">Highlighting a graphic or text block

To highlight a graphic or a text block during a screen show, you can fill its interior with black or highlight the outline with a dark border during a screen show.

  1. Click the text block or graphic object you want to highlight during a screen show.

  2. In the action bar, click Presentation.

  3. In the pop-up menu, click Screenshow Effects.

  4. Choose "<A HREF="#ljugr_how_mouse_activate_effect" target="body">Mouse over effects" or "Mouse down effects."

  5. Do either or both of the following:

  6. Run a screen show, and click over the object to activate the special effect.



<A NAME="ljugr_making_graphics_or_text_blocks_appear">Making graphics or text blocks appear

You can click on an object or its location to make a graphic or text block appear when you are running a screen show.



By clicking an object's location

  1. Click an object.

  2. In the action bar, click Properties.

  3. In the pop-up bar, click the Name tab.

  4. Click Visible to remove the check mark.

    Note By default, all objects will be visible when you run a screen show. However, to make an object appear in a screen show, you must first turn off the object's visible property.

  5. In the action bar, click Drawing.

  6. In the pop-up menu, click Image Map.

  7. Choose "<A HREF="#ljugr_how_mouse_activate_effect" target="body">Mouse over effects" or "Mouse down effects."

  8. In the pop-up panel, click "Make visible" to make a check mark appear.

  9. Run a screen show, and click or move the pointer over the object to make it appear.



By clicking another object

During a screen show, you can click one object to make another object appear.

  1. Click the graphic or text block you want to click to display the other graphic or text block.

  2. In the action bar, click Drawing.

  3. In the pop-up menu, click Image Map.

  4. Choose "<A HREF="#ljugr_how_mouse_activate_effect" target="body">Mouse over effects" or "Mouse down effects."

  5. Click the "Display object" box and type the name of the object you want to display.

  6. Run the screen show, and click the graphics or text object to make it display the object you selected in step 4.



<A NAME="ljugr_link_to_page_or_web">Linking to a presentation page or a web page

If an object is marked as "clickable," you can click the object to link to another presentation page or to a web site.

  1. Select an object.

  2. In the action bar, click Properties.

  3. Click Clickable to make a mark appear.

  4. In the action bar, click Drawing.

  5. In the pop-up menu, click Image Map.

  6. Click "Mouse down effects."

  7. In the pop-up panel, do one of the following:

Note Broadcast to InfoBus allows you to send and receive data from other eSuite applets using special HTML tags. For more information, consult the eSuite programmability online help.



<A NAME="ljugr_how_mouse_activate_effect">Specifying how the mouse will activate a special effect

You can activate a special effect during a screen show by either clicking the object with the mouse, or by passing the mouse pointer over the object.

  1. Click the text or graphics object to which you want to assign a special effect.

  2. In the action bar, click Text or Drawing (depending on whether you have a text or graphics object selected).

  3. In the pop-up menu, click Image Map.

  4. In the pop-up panel, click one of the following:

  5. Click Done to close the pop-up panel.