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change the color of a text buttons

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September 14, 2010
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learning adobe captivate 5

mmm I though this will be easy

I feel really silly but I dont find the way to change the

color of a text button...

I can change the color and type of fonts but not the backgrund of the button

any tips

Pedro

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Mr. Kirkwood

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I agree with everyone. I was using MultiMedia Builder previously. But this program has limitiations, as it wont export a Flash that works with a Mac. So I invested in Captivate. I need the text buttons to be interactive or else i would just use a Text Caption (wich would be nice if they had some interaction too).

I would like to see a text button that i could change color on. here is what i wish i could make my capitvate project look like:

Captiv8r

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Hi there

You could certainly accomplish this easily by creating image buttons. There are tons of sites out there that allow you to do this for free. You just save the images to your local drive and insert them.

And if you don't wish to rely on a web site, there are some cool button making apps like Vista Buttons.

Cheers... Rick

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Mr. Kirkwood

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Thanks! i am getting there. i am going to go witha button image with a

clear text caption on top. i will try teh button designer too! cheers

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Hi Pedro

If you need to control this aspect you need to investigate using Image buttons.

Cheers... Rick

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pedro-perlaAuthor

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Hi Rick

yes I was talking about that with Lily last time

but I dont have clear how to make this

images buttons and the export them to captivate

( please any explanations will be nice )

Is not there any easy solutions inside the adobe captivate for this???

thats a shame that the guys form adobe want to make the captivate users

to buy other programs ( photoshop or flash etc )

I understand the marketing but to be really competitive adobe captivate need more funtions

regarding with effects images and buttons

I like this program is great

but I just was waiting more from the adobe guys

( will be nice to have shadows, effects, transitions, frames, etc )

any way it is a very useful app but come on guys " just a little bit more "

Lilybiri

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Hi Pedro,

Please fill in a feature request, to have the possibility to change the background color of Text buttons. I'm always creating my own buttons, do use Photoshop indeed because of the layer possibilities.

But something else: you do not need to buy Photoshop (or Flash) to create image buttons at all, you can use Paint! Have first a look at the Gallery with buttons in Captivate (captivate folder\Gallery\Buttons). You will see that those buttons need 3 images (format can be BMP or PNG, both can be created with Paint): one for the 'up', the 'over' and the 'down' state. The first one will be visible when you are away from the button, the second when the mouse hovers over the button and the last when you press the button. Create those three images in Paint, be sure to have the same size for each of them. Then save them as PNG or BMP, where you add _over, _up and _down as last part of the name and copy those images to the Button folder. You can add text to the button etc.

Lilybiri

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