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I am really hoping someone might help. My opus knowledge is quite limited and I have to do a lagre project by Friday! I am using Opus Pro XE.

I need to create hotspots (at least thats what I think I need to create - there might be a better way of doing it!) over areas that will allow users to click and move to another page.

I have created the hotspots but there is a problem. They ajoin and are quite complex polygons. No matter what I do it then allows the user to click in the bigger square box around the polygon - meaning that if they click close to the edge they go to another page. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

ALison

From what I can gather from your post, you may wish to check the following:
on the hotspot Properties tab check to make sure have the Ignore Transparent Area checkbox checked and the "Stop mouse clicks passing through" checkbox checked.

I think this will help you.

I have tried this but this ignores the middle of the hotspot as well as the exterior and only lets you selct the line. Perhaps I need to fill it in somehow? I can't work out how to do this and I would also need to do it in away that made it filled in but see through!

Can you give me some idea of how you are employing your hotspot? Or could you attach a one page .IMP with a hotspot on it so I can see what you're doing?

if you use a freehand hotspot to trace the required 'active' area, making sure it is closed off when you draw it (you should get the option to close it if the ends don't quite meet up). If you look in the object inspector, you will see the hotspot with a polygon below. Select the polygon and righclick and select properties. Select vector fill and tick the 'use background' box. Select any colour. This should now work as you expect(assuming you have attached a trigger and action to the hotspot)
If you don't fill the polygon, only the line of the polygon is active, which may be confusing you. Using this method, you can draw irregular hotspots which are defined precicely by the polygon and not the boundary box around it.

Hope this helps.

Sandyn You are brilliant!! Thank you so much for saving me hours of faffing around!

Thanks to everyone else as well for taking the time to reply