Hello,
I need some please. How do I link one button to two slices? or combine
two slices to make one slice, or make a true polygon shape out of the slices,
it will make the polygon shape but it leaves the the red guide lines and I cant
work under that slice... if you understand. Will someone please . Thank you
so much.

I don't understand "can't work under that slice."

You can make true polygon slices, however. There's a little triangle at the
bottom right corner of the button to select the slice tool. Click that, and it
will expand, giving you the choice of the rectangular slice tool or the polygon
slice tool.

Yes, you'll get the red guidelines that define the extent of your slices, no
matter what.

Can you post your image, or a screen shot of what you're trying to do?

[IMG]http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9959/idunnoqs9
..jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img179.image
shack.us/img179/9959/idunnoqs9.8fb02b055b.jpg[/IMG]

View > Slice Guides to toggle them OFF.
And/or select the Hide Slices/Hotspots Toolbar command so you can work with your objects.

h

Thanks for the quick reply, I did what you said, and it hides the red guide
lines but it still wont let me work under the red guide line even though it is
not visible. I am stuck and dont know what to do.

Did you Hide Slices?

Select the Pointer Tool and click your Object? It should get selected.

What happens when you mouse over the 'star' object? Do you get the 'object
selection' bounding area appear? Bounding area should appear red when you mouse
over it? Yes/No!

Also, go to your Layer Panel and make sure that your object/Layer is not
'locked'. Look for little 'padlock' icons next to the Layers. If you see it,
click it, to toggle it to 'off'.

h

heathrowe wrote:
> Did you Hide Slices?
>
> Select the Pointer Tool and click your Object? It should get selected.
>
> What happens when you mouse over the 'star' object? Do you get the 'object
> selection' bounding area appear? Bounding area should appear red when you mouse
> over it? Yes/No!
>
> Also, go to your Layer Panel and make sure that your object/Layer is not
> 'locked'. Look for little 'padlock' icons next to the Layers. If you see it,
> click it, to toggle it to 'off'.
>
> h
>

Also make sure you are not in PREVIEW mode in the document window.

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Whenever I mouse over my stars they are red and when I select them they turn
blue, none of my layers are locked. When I preview my document all the starts
above the red line work, everything below doesn't. I even previewed in browser
to see if it only did it in fireworks, but it does the same thing in my
browser. I made the original image in photoshop, and exported to fireworks.
Could that maybe be the problem? Even after I hide the slice guide lines I am
still unable to make the buttons work.

Here are some more screen shots to try to out.

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4162/bm7.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/142/2lo0.jpg

Can you post the original .png file and a link to your output/browser version?

h

Two points.

First, I see that you have star shapes in your image, but that doesn't mean
you need a star shaped slice. You can use a small square that is centered on
your star. That might make creating your slices easier. All you have to do is
drag lines out from the rulers at left and top, place two pair around each
star, and then drag a slice from one corner to another.

Noting this leads me to my second point: images have to be rectangular. If you
want to swap the L-shaped area, then you need to swap two images, not one. This
may be why you can't make buttons below the top guide line of your L-shaped
slice.Because Fireworks needs to make a rectangular image it defaults to an
area that encompasses the slice - the area you can't make buttons in. It's
locking out the non-sliced are that will still need to be part of the image,
since that part will flip, too.

Thank you pixlor, I did not know that I couldnt slice an image like that. Back to the drawing board then. Thanks everyone for your .

Good catch pixlor.
I got the same result as Raven.

h

Thanks Darrell! :grin; Yeah...no matter how much we try to break out of the
box...we're still stuck with rectangles!

RevenMurder, you're welcome! :smile; Sorry it isn't an easy answer.

It is possible to get the effect you have designed. You can code for changing
two images with one mouseover, but you have to do it yourself or find some
JavaScript code somewhere. With your overall design, however, I would recommend
making the microscope one image with an image map rather than a bunch of small
sliced images (unless you really need those stars to change color or display
some other effect). Everywhere you have slice boundaries, you'll cut that image
and the result will be a really nasty HTML table.

Good luck!

thanks for the about the shapes like slices, sphers and others.favour me by giving more information on it.