Anyone have ANY suggestions?

If this is the wrong place to post this, let me know....

(sorry for double post)

i know whats happening.

go into all the text objects, etc and change their properties for "relation" and change the "activation" to "none" this will make it transparent to the mouse.

what is happening is that all objects are setup to have mouseover capabilities, and when you "stack" items on top of each other the mouse has to look at all the objects as it passes over them.   so when you make the parent object have a mouseover event it works as long as the mouse is "ON" the parent object, when you move over the text, its now ON the text, not the parent object.

So, unless you have some reason you want the text to be "clickable" then do as stated above, if you need items on the parent object to be clickable, or have mouseover effects then there is little that can be done about what your seein.

You should also change the parent object's "activation" to "rectangular area".  This makes it one big rectangle and not just the parts that are "visible".  this could help with the above as well.

Good luck.

None of that worked.

BUT

It did point me in the right direction;

'this is the name of the object in question
Const name = "weather_panel"
'this is the factor by which the object and all of its children will grow
Const var = 1.3



Dim temp
Sub Object_OnMouseEnterEx(Obj)
        If temp = 0 Then   
   
    For Each elem In Desktopx.Object(name).Children

        elem.left = elem.left*var
        elem.top = elem.top*var

       
        elem.width = elem.width*var
        elem.height = elem.height*var
         
        elem.SetFont "Arial", elem.fontsize*var, elem.fontbold, elem.fontitalic, elem.fontunderline, elem.fontstrikeout, 0
       
    Next
        Object.left = Object.left + (((object.width*(var)) - Object.width)/2)
        Object.top = Object.top - (((object.height*(var)) - Object.height)/2)
       
        Object.width = Object.width*var
        Object.height = Object.height*var
       
        Object.SetFont "Arial", Object.fontsize*var, Object.fontbold, Object.fontitalic, Object.fontunderline, Object.fontstrikeout, 0
    temp = 1
    End If   
End Sub
Sub Object_OnMouseLeaveEx(Obj)
        If System.CursorX < Object.Left Or System.CursorX > Object.Right Or System.CursorY > Object.Bottom Or System.CursorY < Object.Top Then
       
        For Each elem In Desktopx.Object(name).Children
            elem.left = elem.left/var
            elem.top = elem.top/var
       
            elem.width = elem.width/var
            elem.height = elem.height/var   
       
            elem.SetFont "Arial", elem.fontsize/var, elem.fontbold, elem.fontitalic, elem.fontunderline, elem.fontstrikeout, 0
       
        Next
        Object.width = Object.width/var
        Object.height = Object.height/var
       
        Object.SetFont "Arial", Object.fontsize/var, Object.fontbold, Object.fontitalic, Object.fontunderline, Object.fontstrikeout, 0

        Object.left = Object.left - (((object.width*(var)) - Object.width)/2)
        Object.top = Object.top + (((object.height*(var)) - Object.height)/2)
    temp = 0
    End If
   
End Sub

As you can see, the main differences here is that I cleaned up the code a bit and I added a checker to see if the mouse position has actually cleared the object's space before resizing.

I've tested this all over my desktop and it seems to work perfectly without any allignment issues (just make sure that if you have a text object, that the allignment is left and not right or center!!!)

Thanks for the help, and I hope this helps someone in the future!

Ah, the old mouseover child = mouseaway from parent problem.

Here's another solution brought to you by Tiggz:

It would look something like this:

nice

hey so i've actually got an update on this issue; you can actually add a message to the mouse over states of the children objects which will broadcast a command to any object or even all objects at once.

Essentially, an easy non- script way to resolve this issue is to do make all the children object's mouse over state send a message to the parent object, to change it's state to "Mouse Over"

I've tested this and it works perfectly