Some kind of grouping objects

[padawan]

Hi folks,

I already read some posts in this forum that told me that there is no real way of grouping objects in order to e.g. make them appear or disappear at one time in one place. did I get that right?

What would be the most clever way of treating the objects in the mouseover on bar one in my example as a unity?

http://www.vossfeldt.de/mmf/getmore/

The mouseover is only on one bar of the bar chart now, and I put up three events for the three items in the mouseover condition. Also I had to position each object separately. It will get pretty muddled soon, when I implement the same action for all the other bars, and too much work as I think. What would be the most economic way to handle this with the possibilities that allready exist in MMF2?

Regards,
padawan

[Dynasoft]

Store the text from the mouseover in alterable strings of the bars. Then only use one set of mouseover objects, and do:
Mouse is over "Bar"
-show mouseover objects
-set position of mouseover objects relative to bar
-set mouseover title to alt string A of Bar
-set mouseover text to alt string B of Bar

[padawan]

"Then only use one set of mouseover object", how do I put them into a "set"? Like the alterable string object together with the active object I use as background.

[Konidias]

Well isn't it just two objects that you need to hide/show? Why bother grouping them at all? Just have an event for each bar the mouse moves over which shows the 2 objects and changes the text.

Above these events you'd just have an Always event and have it hide those 2 objects... so it's always hiding the objects unless your mouse is over one of the bars in particular.

But if you're really intent on grouping them... you can always add Qualifiers to both of them.

[padawan]

Thanks, Konidias. I worked it over so that I really only need 2 objects - the background and the text. I will also take a look at the manual concerning qualifiers.