Is this action possible?

[Carlos]

Hi there,

Is this possible to do:

Let's say my project has 6 pages.

Pages 1 to 5 all have a button with a "Page.Jump" action to Page 6.

Page 6 has a single small image object.

This is what I want to do:-

If I come from Page 1 into Page 6, I want the "Image Object" in Page 6 to be in a certain position.
If I come from Page 2 into Page 6, the "Image Object" must be in another position and so on for the other pages…

Is this possible? If so, any ideas how?

Thanks!

[Eric]

Why not just have Page 6 and Page 7 with the objects in different positions (duplicate the rest of the page content)?

Eric

[Lorne]

Yes, this is possible. Here's how:

- assign the name of the page being jumped from to a variable like %FromPage%

- you can't move Image Objects at run time, so you'll need to put multiple Image Objects on the page, and then use "Page - Show Object" and "Page - Hide Object" actions to show the one that is in the appropriate position, according to the value that is currently in your %FromPage% variable...you'll need some IF and END IF actions to do that. You'll probably want to do all of this on Page 6's "On Initialize" event.

[Carlos]

Thanks for the reply Eric,
Problem is that the actual project has 110 pages. 49 of those pages would have 49 different image positions...The other pages 20 and less.

[Carlos]

Thanks Lorne,

I will try that. You wouldn't have an example of a script lying around, would you? :-)

[Corey]

Egads that last page is going to be a veritable rat's nest...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software