MatchWare Mediator 9 Documentation

Why not? Well, we only want the text to become visible when the mouse pointer is moved into the rectangle.
Therefore the text must be hidden when the page first appears.
Hiding an object is very simple.
Right-click the text object.
Uncheck Show Object in its local menu (remove the checkmark by clicking the option).
As you can see the object is still there, but it is now hidden.
Let us test the presentation to see if the rectangle works.
Close the Events dialog.
Choose Review | Test | Run Document or press F5.
Test your presentation to see if moving the mouse pointer in and out of the rectangle shows and hides the text as
expected. Of course you can still move back and forth between Page1 and Page2.
Press the Esc key to exit test mode.
Ready for more? How to play music in Mediator is our next step.
Further steps - Playing a sound
[The complete Mediator document "Quick Start_Further Steps.md8" used in this example can be found in the Mediator program folder, in
"…\Examples\Quick Start".]
By now, you know how to open the Page list and the Events dialog, and how to combine events and actions in
the active field, so we won't describe that in detail anymore.
Remember the rectangle on Page1? A text label is shown whenever the mouse pointer is moved into it. Well,
how about playing a tune at the same time?
Select the rectangle and open its Events dialog.
In the Events dialog you already have the Move Into and Move Out events combined with a Show and Hide
action respectively. You can place as many actions after each event as you want, so in order to play a tune when
the mouse pointer is moved into the rectangle simply drop the Sound action to the right of the Show action.
Click the Multimedia tab above the actions field to see the multimedia actions.
Select the Sound action .
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