CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 94. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 894 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Creating Rollover Buttons Almost any object you draw can be made into a rollover that reacts to cursor actions so you can liven up your published document with simple animated effects and hyperlinks. Cursor actions are events such as when a user holds or passes a cursor over the object or clicks the object by using a mouse. When you re creating rollovers three basic states can be defined Normal Over and Down. The Normal state sets how an object appears in its static state when the cursor is not over or clicked on the object on the web page. The Over state sets the appearance of the object whenever a cursor is over it. The Down state reveals the object in the rollover group when the user s cursor is above the object and has clicked their mouse button. By varying what the graphic looks like in these states you can create interesting visual effects and give your users meaningful feedback related to their cursor movement. This is fun stuff and deserves a tutorial. The following steps show how to make a region interactive when an object or group of objects is displayed on a web page. Although the button will react to cursor actions when you ve completed the tutorial the actions will not link to anything linking a button is covered later in this chapter let s concentrate on the art for the button first. Let s suppose you want a button that tells the visitor that something is for sale a button with a symbol plays in several countries or use a currency symbol of your preference in this example. To continue the concept here the action a visitor would take would be to click to buy the item therefore when visitors hover their cursor over and or click the button the button should change to a different look. In this example the button will change its text from a symbol to an official-looking SOLD message. Yep as ambitious as this might sound all you need to do is to follow these steps. Creating Different Looks for Rollover States 1. Create a
