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Now that you have made your buttons with the QuickStart Wizard you may want to make some adjustments and add your buttons to a web-page. The following describes how to customize your buttons and upload them to your web-server.
Whilst the QuickStart Wizard is incredibly fast at making your menu - it is somewhat limited in what you can achieve. The real flexibility comes from using the 1 Cool Button Tool application in which you can create far more interactive menus, navigation and even interactive ads. The following will show you how to make some simple changes to your menu and get used to the way 1 Cool Button Tool works. We will cover the following:
A simple thing to edit first is the background colour. Make sure you are on the general properties tab and click on the coloured square (just under our logo) and select a new colour. You will see the background behind the buttons change. Any colour can be select and you can use the hex numbers to match any web colours - you can also use an image which can be scaled, tiled or centred. For more information see topic: General Properties: Background
All 1 Cool Button Tool buttons have three states:
You can change any other following on each of the button states. For more information see topic: Button States Changing button fonts In many cases it is effective to have different font styles on each button state or even different font styles on different buttons. This is very simple to achieve, simply select the Button Properties tab, then the Button and Button State you want to change in the editor and make your change. You will see the immediate effect in the editor window. For more information see topic: Button States: Font Settings Changing button sounds Rather than having the same sound effects for all of your buttons you can set each button individually. If you really want to go crazy you can set each button state with a different sound effect. For more information see topic: Button States: Sound
Animation is achieved through the use of Actions. They are the key to creating interesting navigation and menu systems such as expandable menus, animated navigation schemes and more interesting interactive applets and Flash files. Basically an action just allows one button to control the appearance or position of other buttons (including itself). You can specify actions to be performed when a designated event occurs such as when a button is pressed or mouse-over occurs. In the case of animations created by the QuickStart Wizard, animations are initiated on startup and are listed on the General Properties Tab (on the bottom right). You have the following Action available: Show, Hide, Up, Over, Down, Wait, Call, Move, Size, Xform, SetText, RetoreText, Play, Fade (Flash only) and Rotate (Flash only). Example: The simplest thing to try is to change the animation timing. The last number on each line indicates the number of frames that is used to create the effect. Making the number larger will slow the animation down, making it smaller will speed it up. Note: When you build a Flash menu you will note that the animation timing is slightly different to what is displayed in the For more information see topic: Actions and Animation
To add your menu to an existing web-page you will need to do two things. 1. Add 1CBT HTML to your page 2. Put Java or Flash 'build' files in the same folder
as your page For more information see topic: Build Applet and Build Flash
Guide Tour In order for you to get a feel for 1CBT, we put together two Guided Tours which cover a basic overview of the main features and functions of 1CBT as well as explaining how to build your project, add it to another HTML file and upload it to your web server. Introductory Tutorials The following tutorials walk you through the basics of using 1CBT. We recommend that you have a look through the Quick Introduction before proceeding with the tutorial.
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