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pedro-perla
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September 14, 2010
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change the color of a text buttons

  • 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
Mr. Kirkwood
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January 13, 2011

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
Captiv8r
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January 13, 2011

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
Mr. Kirkwood
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January 13, 2011

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

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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September 14, 2010

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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September 14, 2010

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 "

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    Mr_Bloke
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    September 17, 2010

    Hello again Pedro

    pedro-perla wrote:

    Regarding to the 3th part software as photoshop or paint or something else

    thats what Im saying : why we need to use another software when we can

    ( if the guys from adobe want ) ... make all cain of thing inside the same app.

    or any cain of more functions as shadows, glow, frames, reflections etc...

    but unfortunately they dont want to add more ...

    Of course if you can use flash or photoshop the options are unlimited ...

    but how many people can even use photoshop***


    Actually, with a little creativity, you already have most of that functionality built into Captivate 5 with all the new whiz bang effects you can add and whatnot.

    But I would strongly disagree with adding in "Photoshop" type features. Here's why.

    Captivate is already now far more sophisticated application than the simple little screen recording application I met years ago. Like us humans, often as we mature, our metabolism slows and we become a bit bloated as a result. I'd hate to see the development team code Captivate to try to become all things to all people. Adobe has Photoshop. What would be their incentive to code all the Photoshop functionality into Captivate just so folks could create Buttons? Captivate isn't a Button making application and there are many free alternatives available. In addition to what Lilybiri mentioned, you can find a plethora of button making applications out on the web.

    http://www.buttongenerator.com/

    http://www.crystalbutton.com/

    Cheers... Rick

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    I'm going to chip in here in partial support of Pedro on this one.  I think it is quite amazing that for the text button you cannot change the default color from grey or the default highlight from blue (not to mention the way too bright yellow box focus).

    9 times out of 10, a plain old text button  will do the job perfectly fine - it would just be nice to make the basic changes to it so that it fits in with your colour scheme.

    Yes you can use image buttons, but that is another step using another program, adding assets to the library, and bulking out the finished published project further.

    All the whizz-bang effects that have been added recently are all well and good, but like so many software developers, Adobe can ignore the little features that are basic but really useful because they are not good "headline" features.

    (rant over - feature request getting submitted )

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