PS/ImageReady are great tools to slice up-rollover-animate images, but can you do pop-up menus as well, like the roll-down menu found on the top of every software window. In Fireworks it's a childs' play, but I don't know if I could import my layers, slices, anims etc, from my Photoshop file. It would be easier to do it in ImageREady. Thank you, everyone, in advance Yours truly, Fuli

Fuli, when you say "In Fireworks it's a childs' play,... " are you talking about Fireworks MX??

If you want to IMPORT your Photoshop layers INTO Fireworks, version 4 handles it much better, though there are still problems with text. Simply choose EDIT > PREFERENCES then click on the Import tab. You can select different import options, but this should work for you.

If you want to perserve your layers FROM your Fireworks (4)file, INTO Photoshop, choose FILE > EXPORT, in the dialog box, name your file and choose Photoshop PSD from the Save As menu.

There are some other "export" settings to deal with in the "settings" menu. choose "options" and select the ones you want...

i can get more indepth if you want, but thats a good place to start. If you have an eariler version of Fireworks than 4, you will not be able to retain your layers. You can open you ".png" file in Photoshop but your wonderful layers are flattened!

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retrocity

Thank you very much, Retrocity for your help. I could in fact very easily open my multi-layered photoshop file in fireworks, without any loss, but i could not edit the text layers as I wanted them. The slices info did disappear though. The result is, that I can't really use both applications, because some animated gifs, and rollovers are created based on the Photoshop slices. How does Fireworks write the pop-ups scripts? If it puts on a new layer, then toggles the visibility, or z-index, then i could do all the layout, slicing in photoshop, even the html part, and just add the pop-up code Fireworks creates to one cell. I am going to check this right now, do you think it's a workable? Thank you, Fuli

Macromedia and Adobe are not really "best-of-friends" grin In fact they've been battleing it out in court over "infringments" so it's no wonder the two don't work as well together as we'd like... The Pop up Menus created in Fireworks, if i remember right are JavaScript (i think it creates a file called menu.js) you maybe able to tinker with this to get it to perform the way you want, but "machine"generated code is ALWAYS tougher to read! Give it a shot, maybe we can figure it out together... let us know, s

Hi! I've been looking at the menu.js file, and the html code of the pop-up page as well, and it seems that you can paste the html code into any page, or any cell in a table. The menu.js does not need to be changed. That's what me thinks, I keep you updated, when I've actually done it! Seeya! Fuli

Hello! I've tried to combine the Fireworks and Imageready codes. I can report to you, that indeed it worked! I did the popup menu in Fireworks, and everything else, including the mousovers in ImageReady. You can just copy the javascript, past it anywhere, and voila! I had to adjust to x,y coordinates of the menu, to position it, but that's it! Cheers, Fuli

Great job Fuli, post the URL if you want. I'd love to see your rollover effects :) s

Attached Link: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/orto.family/chambre

Just one more note: Imageready does NOT write preload script for animated gifs. It does for a simple rollover, but not if the rollover image is animated. The result is, that when you do mouseover on an animated gif, the display gets delayed. You can add the preload of animgifs manually, no problem, but the problem does not get discovered, until you try to view it from a remote computer, and/or the files are not cached. Fuli

Fuli, good catch, thanks for the info on the delay. It's always better to "find" these little surprises before showing the client!! :) s