Creating Multistate Objects - Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac Manual

C 11: Creating Dynamic Documents
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myClickArrow.paths.item(0).entirePath = [[186, 294],[186,354],[282, 324]];
//Set the behavior for the button.
var myMovieStartBehavior =
myPlayButton.movieBehaviors.add({movieItem:myFrame.movies.item(0),
behaviorEvent:BehaviorEvents.mouseUp, operation:MoviePlayOperations.play});
//Create the movie "Stop" button.
var myStopButton = myPage.buttons.add({geometricBounds:[294,78,354,174],
name:"StopMovieButton"});
var myNormalRectangle =
myStopButton.states.item(0).rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[294,78,354,174],
fillColor:myDocument.colors.item("Gray")});
myRolloverState = myStopButton.states.add();
var myRolloverRectangle =
myRolloverState.rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[294,78,354,174],
fillColor:myDocument.colors.item("Gray")});
var myFillTransparencySettings = myRolloverRectangle.fillTransparencySettings;
myFillTransparencySettings.dropShadowSettings.mode = ShadowMode.drop;
myFillTransparencySettings.dropShadowSettings.angle = 90;
myFillTransparencySettings.dropShadowSettings.xOffset = 0;
myFillTransparencySettings.dropShadowSettings.yOffset = 0;
myFillTransparencySettings.dropShadowSettings.size = 6;
myClickState = myStopButton.states.add();
var myClickRectangle = myClickState.rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[294,78,354,174],
fillColor:myDocument.colors.item("Red")});
var myMovieStopBehavior =
myStopButton.movieBehaviors.add({movieItem:myFrame.movies.item(0),
behaviorEvent:BehaviorEvents.mouseUp, operation:MoviePlayOperations.stop});
Buttons are also important in controlling the appearance of multistate objects, as we'll demonstrate in the
next section.

Creating Multistate Objects

Multistate objects (or MSOs) are similar to buttons in that they contains states, and that only one state can
be visible at a time. They are unlike buttons in that they can contain any number of states; buttons can
contain three states, at most. Multistate objects rely on buttons to change the way they display their
states.
The following script fragment shows how to create a simple multistate object and add a button to control
the display of the states in the object (for the complete script, refer to MakeMultiStateObject).
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