New Project:

Creates an empty button project of 300 by 300 pixels.

You can resize the button project by dragging the corners of the Button Editor window, and you can add buttons with New Text Button and New Bitmap Button.

Note that the tabs are greyed-out when you create a new project. This is because the button project initially contains no buttons, so no Button Properties are available. As soon as you create a New Button the tabs will be enabled.

Open Project :

Opens an existing button project file .1cb file

When you build a button applet, 1 Cool Button Tool saves a copy of the .1cb file to the build folder as a backup. If you accidentally delete or misplace a .1cb file, you will have a backup of the file made when you last built the applet.

Save Project:

Saves the current button project as a .1cb file

A .1cb file. is a text file which describes your button project, it is not the applet itself. To turn your button project into a Java applet or Flash file (that can run over the Internet) you must first build your project, then upload it to your web server.

New Text Button :

Creates a new text button. The new button will be beveled blue with white text by default. The size of the button is specified by the Default Button Size.

You can adjust the appearance of the new button after you create it.

New Bitmap Button:

Creates a new button from a GIF or JPEG file. You may use animated or transparent GIFs, but animated GIFs will only play correctly in a Java Applet using Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape 4 or a more recent browser. The button will have the "transparent-style" by default, and all three button states will be set to the same bitmap.

Transparent-style buttons are explained in Advanced Button Properties.

Duplicate Button:

Duplicates the currently selected button. If you are specifying the position of each button, the new button will be placed on top of the current button and offset slightly to the right and down. If buttons are arranged in a row or column, the new button will be inserted after the button you duplicated.

The new button will have the same name with a -n appended to the name, where n is a number.

Tip:
Duplicate Button is handy for creating a group of buttons with a consistent look and feel. First create one button with the look you desire, then duplicate it as many times as you like.

Move Button Up:

Moves the the currently selected button towards the top of the button list. If you have buttons stacked on top of each other, the button will move closer to the top of the stack. If you have buttons arranged in a column or row, the button will move closer to the top of the column, or to the left of the row.

If the Button Layout is either Vertical or Horizontal then the button will actually get repositioned in the preview pane. This DOES NOT work when you choose the Specify Size & Position Layout.

Move Button Down:

Moves the the currently selected button towards the bottom of the button list. If you have buttons stacked on top of each other, the button will move closer to the bottom of the stack. If you have buttons arranged in a column or row, the button will move closer to the bottom of the column, or to the right of the row.

If the Button Layout is either Vertical or Horizontal then the button will actually get repositioned in the preview pane. This DOES NOT work when you choose the Specify Size & Position Layout.

Delete Button:

Deletes the currently selected button from the button project.

Refresh Editor Window:

Refreshes the Editor Window. Any bitmaps or sounds which have been modified outside of 1 Cool Button Tool will be reloaded.

Play/Edit Mode:

The Play/Edit Mode toolbar toggles between Play and Edit modes. You can test your button applet at any time by pressing the green play button. The red button will stop the button applet running and return you to edit mode.

Note 1: Animated GIFs will only play when you are in Play Mode.

Note 2: Animated GIFs will only play if you have the latest Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed. If you do not have the latest JVM, 1 Cool Button Tool will display the first frame only.

Note 3: If the images or sounds are stored in any folder OTHER THAN the same folder as where the applet resides, they may not play or show properly when viewing locally through your browser!