Okay I have no idea what forum to put this in but since I’m running mx I guess I’ll put it here.
So I have this flash application that I built for some dudes at work. They have 45 historical documents that they would like to be able to put on a CD and have someone be able to pull out the one they want without having to search too hard.
So I built a timeline with a bunch of “flags” sticking out of it. You can access the documents in a number of ways:
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You can click on a flag and it will launch the document (a pdf that opens in IE because I couldn’t get the stupid thing to launch acrobat reader).
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You can roll the mouse over the flag and in the text box below the timeline you can see a link to the file and a brief description.
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You can roll the mouse over a year on the timeline and see all the documents available for that year appear in the textbox.
So here is my problem - there are so many documents in the last couple of years on the timeline that I had to stack them above and below the timeline. If you roll the mouse over the year 2000 for example you see a list of documents in the text box. Now, on the way to the textbox to scroll through the list you can’t help but pass over some of the flags - which triggers the on rollover code for that flag so it changes what is in the text box. (See attached image).
Argh! Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get around this? I thought about putting a delay on the text for the flags but that would get annoying after awhile.
If anyone has ANY ideas I would love to hear them!
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