Quartz Composer mouse hover and scroll

Question

I'm really new to origami and quartz. I've only spent a few hours on it today and am still a little lost.

I'm trying to show some interaction for a website in a web browser. What patch would I use to register a mouse hover on a button or window? More specifically I've attached a link to show what kind of interaction i'm trying to achieve (Living Options section).

Also how do you use the mouse scroll patch?

Thanks

Answer 1

To register a mouse hover, you would use the setup pictured above. First you need to define a Hit Area (the area to be hovered). Plugged into this you need an Interaction patch. Finally, you need to define which kind of mouse interaction you want to track – in this case Mouse Over. You have have a number of options here:

1. Plug the Mouse Over output port into another patch, e.g. the Text patch.
2. Create a Wireless Broadcaster (pictured) to send the interaction anywhere else in your composition (via a Wireless Receiver).
3. Publish the output up one layer. To do this, hover over the desired port and hit 'p'. The output will now be available from the parent patch.