Animated or hotspot quick menu? Is it possible? Help please!

[Hellboy]

Hi!
This will probably sound unusual, but...
Is it possible to make an animated quick menu or make a hotspot for the quick menu?
The thing is, I’d like to replace the default quick menu with a single button. I’d like that button to do one of this things:

1- Make a “bright” and brighter” variants of it and use dissolve and repeat so it looks like it glows.

OR

2- Make the button a hotspot so when the mouse is over it, it glows, again, with a "bright" and "brighter" variants.

Of course, both options should call the game menu, but I don’t how to do it or if it’s even possible.
Someone could help me please?
Thanks!

[mirelle]

You can define hotspots as animations, since basically ren'py takes any displayables, not just images, for a hotspot.

[Hellboy]

You can define hotspots as animations, since basically ren'py takes any displayables, not just images, for a hotspot.

Well, that's great to know! I'd like something like that.
Would it be too much ask for an example of how to change the default quick menu with something like this, please? I have no idea.

[Hellboy]

Well, I finally was able to do the second option thanks to FatUnicornGames thread here: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=15769&
I didn't knew about "image maps". No wonder I wasn't finding any info.

Here is the code for the quick menu of the screens.rpy just in case:

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##############################################################################
# Quick Menu
#
# A screen that's included by the default say screen, and adds quick access to
# several useful functions.
screen quick_menu:

    # Add an in-game quick menu.
    hbox:
        style_group "quick"
   
        xalign 1.0
        yalign 1.0
        imagemap:
                ground "textbox1.png"
                hover "textbox2.png"
                hotspot (700, 25, 780, 105) action ShowMenu('save')   

I'll check later how to animate it.