Incidentally, if you're talking a glossary of 25 or so terms, I might suggest some rollovers. Create some graphics with the terms. Fireworks is good for this. If you are lacking this, then you could use the Button Wizard 25 times to create some vibrant graphics with text in them. You could make all of them uniform in appearance, or you could mix things up by varying the colors (or just change the shading a bit). Assign an action to each graphic to change the contents of the Definition box on Mouse Enter. On Mouse Exit, change the contents to a null value (you can define a variable with just a space character). The end result is that if your 25 boxes are all close to each other, you can form a piano-like interface where sweeping the cursor down the line changes the definition box rapidly. I personally think it's cleaner and more user-friendly than a drop-down list. Of course, I have no idea what your course is like, so maybe a drop-down list makes more sense for what you're doing. Certainly, if you are short on screen real estate, a drop-down list is more efficient.KevinTo make the rollovers even better, create two sets of graphics for each term. The second set has the same change applied over all elements (for example, white text becomes yellow, or dark blue background becomes light blue). The Mouse Enter action not only changes the contents of the Definition box, but it shows the second graphic on top of the first graphic. The Mouse Exit action then changes the contents of the Definition box, but it also hides the second graphic. It has a nicer look, I think.
