Re: xAP Desktop Released

[James Traynor <james@xxxxxxx>]

>     James,
>     How do I make a display fade away when the mouse is over it? I've
>     tried setting autohide to yes, but it doesn't seem to make a
>     difference.
>
>     Setting AutoHide to Yes works for me Max - and the default load
for
>     'more weather' uses this type of fade - did you 'reload settings'
>     after having changed it ??  Also the setting for fade is used -
and
>     larger is faster - perhaps it is too slow to notice - around 10
>     seems fairly responsive.

While the setting works fine in Desktop there is an error in how it
works in the designer. The latest designer can be downloaded here:
http://www.mi4.biz/downloads/displaydesigner.zip
which fixes this and a few other issues.

The current Desktop build that I am working on uses double the fade time
for auto hide so it gets out the way better/faster.


>
>
>     Can I make a semi-transparent display "solidify" to
opaque (reverse
>     fade) with a mouse hover? And have some mouse click events on that
>     display?
>
>     Ill leave that to James - but currently I think the display would
>     have to be set to click YES and therefore intercept clicks whether
>     it was fully opaque or not - I think if you then clicked on a
button
>     certainly that could send a xAP message to alter the opacity up to
>     whatever you needed , that would require a click rather than
>     mouseover though.
This as Kevin says is a great idea that might be complex in practice.  I
will have to think of a nice way around the click problem, leave it with me

James