Is it possible to use the onMouseOver event on a graphic button to show a layer and then use the onMouseOut to hide it?
Can this be done with Javascript in the client?
Subject: onMouseOver and ShowingLayers
What happened when you tried it?
Subject: onMouseOver and ShowingLayers
In general, layers cannot be manipulated using JavaScript in the NotesClient, because there is nothing to get a handle on as there is on the web. The only way to display/hide layers is by displaying/hiding the layer anchor, which can be done by using a hide formula and setting a value and then using @Command([RefreshHideFormulas]), or can be done by displaying hiding the layer anchor another way such as by putting it inside a collapsed section, then opening the section, or inside a row of a tabbed table and switching tabs, or by putting it in a table you click through and clicking to another row. While all of these offer some cool uses, none really works with mouseover effects, as far as I can figure out. In any case, it has to be somewhere you can run a formula or LotusScript, because JavaScript can’t do it.
Subject: RE: onMouseOver and ShowingLayers
Yeah that is what I thought. Being that the R7 help says that the onMouseOver event is not available in the client - but it obviously is since i’m using it to do certain things - then I was curious if other things could be done.
Subject: RE: onMouseOver and ShowingLayers
It is available, but does it allow you to switch from JavaScript to LotusScript/formula? If not, it occurred to me it may be possible to trigger a button with JavaScript, and the button could then use formula language or LotusScript. A bit convoluted, but it would be interesting to know if it works.
Subject: RE: onMouseOver and ShowingLayers
To be honest I’ve got too many places I’d want to use it. For the quick help on forms and there are a lot of places it would need to be so it would be too difficult to put them all in.
I’ve posted my next comment/question about the use of the Lotus Notes Help window to see if that is a possible solution.
Onwards and upwards.