Button Colours

[stanan01]

After I have copied the Gel Buttons from the Design Gallery, how do I go about changing the button colours for mouse-on and mouse-off states?

[steve.ledger]

Hi Stan,
Welcome to the TG Forums

WD makes this task dead easy.

In the Help File under the search 'themes' you will find this:

Theme colors (or Named Colors) can be used again and again in the document. (As such, they are like styles in a word processor.) Theme colors are used in templates and assure a consistent look of your page elements like buttons or navigation bars. Any edits you make to a Theme color are immediately reflected on all objects and parts of the drawing that use that color. You can also copy Theme colors between documents. If there are any Theme colors already present in the design and you load or paste templates from the Designs gallery containing Theme colors with the same name, you will be asked if you want to match the actual color of the imported Theme colors to the existing ones. The Theme colors from the Templates are consistently named so when you import elements from different themes colors are matched perfectly.

See screen shot below for details

[stanan01]

Thanks for your quick response, it was exactly what I wanted

[Charles Moir]

When you drop the button on a page it asks if you want to match the Theme Colors -if you say yes then editing Theme1 will change the button and everything else on the page.

If you select not to match you'll get copies of the button color appear on the color line, so you can now re-color the buttons without altering everything on the page. E.g. If you drop the red gel button on the page, and select 'Don't Match', you'll find a new color called 'Theme Color 1 2', which will change only the buttons.

So this gives you the choice; you can have buttons either always tied to the main website theme color, or have them so they are separately colored.