Re: Need help with hotspot maps

[Aidan G. <wgs...@no...>]

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syxified wrote:
> I have never been able to successfully get a hotspot map to work in pipmak,
> even if I am pretty much word for word copying the syntax from the demo
> where they seem to work perfectly.  I've simplified a few down to just a
> slide and some spots that would print out a msg if clicked, but nothing
> doing.  I have never been able to find that file with the pallette for the
> indexed colors, which there is a good chance is the root of the issue.  I'm
> not sure exactly how that indexing is supposed to work - are there
> pre-established colors that are set to indexes 0,1,2, etc?  Or does that
> depend on the image file and how it was set up when saved?  Any advice
> towards making a successful hotspot map would be greatly appreciated.

There are no pre-established colors that are used, but the colors used by the
image file itself.  An image with indexed colors is one that uses its own set
color palette of up to 256 colors.

Pipmak comes with a color palette that is well suited to drawing hotspot maps,
because of the contrast between the colors.  The file is "hotspot-palette.gif"
in the folder "extras" (that comes with Pipmak).  How to import this into your
bitmap-image editor depends on what you are using.

So, in short...
* Your hotspot map has to be an indexed image (not RGB).
* The first color on the palette maps to the first hotspot, the second color
to the second hotspot, etc.
* /Anywhere/ color 0 appears on the image will be hotspot 0, so hotspots do
not have to be all one (visual) piece.

Hope this helps,
Aidan
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