User Guide - NetObjects Fusion

Tailoring Actions with Custom Messages
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6. On the Text Properties panel, click the Link tab, then click the Actions button.
The Actions dialog appears.
7. Click the plus (+) button and add an action as described in “Adding Actions to
Objects and Pages” on page 535.
8. Click OK in the Actions dialog.
Tailoring Actions with Custom Messages
You can simplify some action combinations or create specialized sequences by
triggering actions with custom messages. A custom message is a simple text string
you create that becomes available in the When menu as a trigger and in the
Message menu as an action. You can then send it as a wildcard action from one
object to trigger whatever action is added to another. Some actions also use custom
messages as parameter values.
Say you want clicking any of several buttons to trigger an action on a picture, but
you want to periodically change the action from Wipe to Iris. Instead of having to
change each button’s action message from Wipe to Iris, you can have each button
send a custom message that triggers a Wipe or Iris action added to the picture.
Controlling the effect of each button then requires modifying only the picture’s
action. Several uses of custom messages are given in “Examples” on page 550.
To create a custom message:
1. Select the object you want to trigger the first action in a sequence, and click the
plus (+) button on the Actions tab of the Properties panel.
The Set Action dialog appears.
2. In the Set Action dialog, open the When or Message menu, and choose Custom,
Edit.