Help me in this button please

**Intbel** · 12 November 2006, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Big Frank

Trust you to spot the deliberate mistake in my otherwise flawless animation...

Until this post I had nothing to contribute to this thread...

**ankhor** · 12 November 2006, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Intbel

Until this post I had nothing to contribute to this thread...

Intbel that is exactly what I meant. great animation

**Big Frank** · 12 November 2006, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Intbel

Until this post I had nothing to contribute to this thread...

Damn, you got that much better than I did. Here's my last and final and concluding and closing contribution to the bouncing gel ball thread!

**Intbel** · 12 November 2006, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Big Frank

Damn, you got that much better than I did. Here's my last and final and concluding and closing contribution to the bouncing gel ball thread!

I have (I am told) a reputation to maintain

Mention animation ... I gotta be there.

Not a competition though .. we each like to show off what we do best and I don't touch you for illustration.

Yet ....

**Zasz** · 14 November 2006, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Big Frank

I'm sorry Zasz. I want to help you but not if you will not attach the drawing you are trying but failing to successfully modify. I want to see why you cannot do what I and so many other Xara users can do with ease and I cannot do that without the actual drawing that you are working from.

Ok... ill tell you exactly what i'm doing...

First i open the Clipart Gallery that i open the example XARA X drawing (download) i open it and down there is the windows there is this gel buttons, i open the guied and that i copy the first green gel button and place it on a clean new page...

Now i delete the shadow of the button... i mark all the button with the pointer (the mouse arrow), i click on the shape editor tool (f4), when i am on the shape editor toll mode i mark all the gel button, i put the pointer on the little square in the middle

http://i15.tinypic.com/358qebn.jpg

and try to shrink in to the left... only the white reflection move's... i try to press ctrl and no good.. i press shift and it make the white reflection twisted.

That it! now can you help me some how??? please?

**-=Drifter=-** · 14 November 2006, 06:06 PM

Important part is to convert to editable shapes:
[later: hmmm, just re-read this thread and see that Big Frank already posted this tut in a much nicer format. Oh well, now you have it twice.]

**Zasz** · 16 November 2006, 04:17 PM

HO MY GOD!!!

tnx so much!!! i can finnlly kep build my site! thank you!

**BrianMorin** · 18 November 2006, 04:08 AM

Hi folks;

I've read the whole thread, word for word, and looked until I am changing colours, but still can't find out how to change the color of just one button. I made a button and used a named colour, (crimson for those who wish to know.

I duplicated this two times, then I selected one of the other ones, opened the colour editor, and dragged the colour handle from the colour bar (the small square on the crimson named colour). Then I began to slide the cross hair along the colours that newly appeared when I released the color square on the pallet. When I start to move the cross hairs, as I call it, all the buttons change colour at the same time.

Can someone tell me how I can unlink the button colour so I can change one at a time???

Thanks
Brian

**BrianMorin** · 18 November 2006, 04:12 AM

Beautiful graphics gentlemen.

**Egg Bramhill** · 18 November 2006, 04:36 AM

Brian,

Can someone tell me how I can unlink the button colour so I can change one at a time???

You can't.

But do not dispair.
Select your button, copy it to the clipboard.
Open a new Xtreme page
Paste the button
Alter your colour crimson
Copy to clipboard
Paste back to your original drawing
Repeat as often as required
Xtreme renames duplicate named colours each time it pastes back to the original