Set the navigational structure

You've defined the graphic and text elements for your main menu.You're now ready to define the response: the action the user takes. Later in the tutorial, you'll define the result of that action. For menu items, the expected response is that the user clicks the menu text. The result is that the linked text takes the user to the corresponding segment.



  1. On the Main Menu flowline, place a navigate icon to the right of the Select a Topic icon.
  2. In the Response Type dialog box, select Hot Spot, and click OK.



    The Response Type dialog box lets you select how your user will interact with an object.

  3. On the Main Menu flowline, name the unlinked navigate icon Navigate to Terminology.



  4. On the Main Menu flowline, double-click the response symbol above the Navigate to Terminology icon.

    The response symbol offers access to the Response Properties dialog box, where you can configure settings for the response type.

  5. On the Hot Spot tab of the Response Properties dialog box, in the Size text boxes, specify 196 for the pixel width of the hot spot (under the X) and 30 for the pixel height (under the Y).

    You do not need to enter values in the Location text boxes, because you will set the location of the hot spots directly in the Presentation window.

  6. In the Keys text box, type 1.

    The 1 indicates that the user can either type 1 or click the hot spot to select the first menu item.

  7. Select Highlight on Match.

    This causes the selection to highlight when the user clicks it.

  8. To display a pointing finger when the user rolls over the hot spot, click the Ellipsis (...) button to the right of the Cursor text box. In the Cursors dialog box, scroll down and double-click the pointing finger.




 

Send me an e-mail when comments are added to this page | Comment Report

Current page: http://livedocs.adobe.com/authorware/7/using_aw_en/03_tut32.htm