Web Button Appearance

About XP Web Buttons Quick-start tutorial Creating menu buttons Adjusting menu appearance Setting menu buttons links Saving menu User guide Main window Main menu Toolbar Work area Toolboxes Themes toolbox Properties toolbox Common properties Normal / Hot state properties Theme editor Creating theme tutorial Button states image Creating new theme Adding button to the theme Setting state images Adjusting edges width Button samples

Let's assign text to the menu buttons. Select first web button by right-clicking it and then enter text in the "Text" field on the web page buttons Properties toolbox. You will see that, as you enter the text, the selected button's text will change too. Then select next web button with right click. Enter its text and so on. After finishing, the menu will look like this: Now let's add some icons. Select button and then click the "Open icon" button on the "Normal state" tab of the web page buttons Properties toolbox. "Open" dialog will appear, where you can choose an icon. Other way to assign an icon is to type its full path and name in the "Icon" field ("c:\myicons\stylish_3\pretty.ico", for example). Repeat this for each menu button. You should get something like this in result: Let's change icons' position inside the buttons. To do it you should select all buttons by right clicking on the first button, then pressing the Shift key, and then right-clicking the last web button while still holding the Shift key. Then click one of the "Icon Align" buttons on the "Normal State" tab of the web page buttons Properties toolbox. You will see that icons are aligned in the selected way now. In this example we choose Top icon align. Now let's add text shadow to buttons when animated web buttons in hot state. Select all buttons as described in the previous step and then set the "Shadow" checkbox on the "Hot state" tab of the Properties toolbox. Now, when you point mouse at the menu button, shadow will appear under the button text like in the "Products" button of the following example: Let's change the menu theme. To do it just select theme you like in the themes list on the buttons for web Themes toolbox. Then you can browse this theme's button backgrounds. Note, that button backgrounds are previewable. You can look at their behavior while choosing. Just point mouse at it, click it to know how web button will react. When you find a button background you like, double-click it to apply. For example, after choosing one of the "Abstract" theme's backgrounds, we'll get following results: