Question regarding buttons

As an excercise I’ve been practicing making buttons. Two questions …

1. It’s quite a laborious task. Does one keep their button arrangements for other uses. I’d imagine one would have too.

2. I dragged one of the new ready made buttons to have a play. I realize it does not have anything in the mouseOver layer. They plugged them altogether. So the over state is now on the same layer. I don’t understand the difference.

Thanks all.

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Originally Posted by bwood

As an excercise I’ve been practicing making buttons. Two questions …

1. It’s quite a laborious task. Does one keep their button arrangements for other uses. I’d imagine one would have too.

2. I dragged one of the new ready made buttons to have a play. I realize it does not have anything in the mouseOver layer. They plugged them altogether. So the over state is now on the same layer. I don’t understand the difference.

Thanks all.

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Xara made a hash of buttons with MOver / MOff where you had to group the shapes on each layer then soft-group across layers.
Problenms arose with MOver was hidden and people Ctrl-clicked and changed the text or layout but didn't alter the MOver ones.
Also with later changes to Grouped items you have text and shapes properly separated but the hover action would go wacky with jumps and animations out od sync. It also depended on text justification.

The new button style tries to overcome all this but at the cost of UI confusion and extra code to handle the hover.

Far easier to build buttons through styling alone acting on just text.

Acorn