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When a Push on-Push Off button is initially down, you can change the background colour and hold it, would it be a idea to change the font colour also and hold the colour as long as the button is down?

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

There is currently no Button property which allows the text colour to be changed with the button state.

However, this is possible to achieve using two buttons; one with a grey background and black text ('Button 1'), the other with a blue background and white text ('Button 2').

Simply set the Button 2 to Initially Hidden, then open the actions of the Button 1 and apply the following actions:



Now open the actions of Button 2 and apply the following:



Preview the publication and click on the grey button with the black text. It should disappear and be replaced with the blue button and white text. Click on this button and the original button should reappear.

You now simply need to go back into the actions for each button and apply whatever actions you wish to occur when the button is clicked.

I hope this helps. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries.

Kind regards,

Buttons in Flash are really customisable.. I'd like to see similair customisation for buttons. It really is time that there was an option to change the text colour. The option you suggest here is just a silly long winded way of doing it..

Hi Craig,

I agree that a change font colour option for the button transition would be usefull, but in the meantime Robin has given you an easy to impliment solution, and I think to call it 'a silly long winded way of doing it' is not a good way of encouraging Robin to respond to our requests for help!

Hi Craig

I would like to add a further comment to what I consider your unnecessarily disparaging comment that Robin's response was 'a silly long winded way of doing it'.

You may not agree with nor like the response. That's your right. My experience over the years of dealing with DW Support (and Robin in particular) is that all of the responses are well-researched, practical and usually right on the button (pun intended!) The few times they have missed the point has invariably resulted from an unclear explanation from me.

As I become more experienced with using Opus I am contunually surprised by the variety of methods by which different people can design varying means of successfully solving the same problem. Some might work better than others, but none of them is silly!

Now back to your comment: 'a silly long winded way of doing it'.

Robin has been helping me for years, and he has never suggested a solution that was 'silly'. That epithet cannot justly be assigned to Robin's attempt to help you.

Sure it might appear to be 'long-winded' the first time you implement it, BUT... have you ever considered copying your working result into a gallery where a simple click on an image will immediately paste this 'long winded' solution into new pubs? If you haven't investigated galleries, I would recommend that you consider doing so.

There is another important implication in your original post (and other posts that appear in the Wishlist) and in your response.

Opus is a fantastic program that is capable of producing complex multimedia publications. It is simple (well, sometimes ) to use. I remain amused by the number of people who admit that they left other MM authoring programs because these were not suitable to their needs or abilities. Macromedia applications are often mentioned. Despite this, these same people who originally appreciated the simplicity of Opus now want to add more and more features that might well result in slower performance and less stability for Opus.

Beware of program bloat!

Finally, I would like to emphasise that I really appreciate the time Robin and other DW staff spend on helping me with my problems.

"Beware of program bloat!"

ABSOLUTELY! For a long time on these boards, many of us have cautioned against requesting functions & features that are often unnecessary.

Many of the ad hoc requests that repeatedly arise here are addressed efficiently via the use of Galleries & Templates. Still other requests are based on the misperception that this multimedia authoring program should serve as a cheap application development tool. (While it's true that some apps can be created via Opus, that doesn't mean it's an application tool.)

Just because one's own specific, current project needs a specific function does not mean that the entire Opus team should go running in a new direction to create that specific function.
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