CF GUI - button passthrough

[joshj]

Hello All,
I would like to have a button that has no "inactive state" - it allows
the press to go to the button below it. This feature is available in
AMX TPDesign as "Button Type: Passthrough" instead of "Active Touch or
Bounding Box".

Currently I can see that ALL buttons in CF are behaving as "Active
Touch" - the entire button box is touchable, and if this feature is
available, I can't seem to find it.

Here is the scenario :
I have a Crestron DVPHD (single display, multiple video window
matrix), and in order to let the user know which "video window" the
audio is coming from, I'm turning "on" a speaker icon. Because CF
doesn't support "Animations" (which are passthrough in Viewpoint by
default), the only option is to use a button with a clear inactive
state, and the speaker icon as the active state.
The problem is that, if you press the speaker icon area, the "Select
video window area" button (the button below the speaker icon) is not
selected leaving the user confused as to why the audio didn't change.

Thanks!

Josh
www.juroch.com

[Jordan]

Images can be set as clickthrough. Drop an image object over the video window, and set the serial join to speaker.png (example)  when you need to show the speaker icon, and clear the join when you need to hide it.

[joshj]

Thanks, this is a work-around of course. It would be great for future
versions of CF to incorporate "passthrough" for buttons as well.
(I've had projects that have come very close to the 99 serial joins
available in CF, so having less strings is always better...)

[Jarrod Bell]

There is no 99 limit in CF. If you are using the SIMPL+ module, just
edit it to have as many as you need.

The only way you can make a button passthrough is by hiding it by
adjusting opacity with JavaScript, the CF.setProperties function.

Jarrod

On 4/06/12 7:15 AM, joshj wrote:
> Thanks, this is a work-around of course. It would be great for future
> versions of CF to incorporate "passthrough" for buttons as well.
> (I've had projects that have come very close to the 99 serial joins
> available in CF, so having less strings is always better...)
>
> On May 31, 2:12 pm, Jordan<giovanni.nucat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Images can be set as clickthrough. Drop an image object over the video
>> window, and set the serial join to speaker.png (example) when you need to
>> show the speaker icon, and clear the join when you need to hide it.
>>