Creating Nav Bars

[steelypan]

Has anyone else come across this?
If you want to create your own button, then create a navigation bar i.e. Arrange > Create Navigation Bar, your button HAS to contain text in the group.
If you want a graphic as a button, without text, you can't create a navigation bar. The only work around seems to be to put some random text in your button design, and hide it by making it the same colour. Why is this? You ma,y for example want the text to reveal on the mouse over layer. Surely there must be times where people want navbars without text?
By the way, I'm using Designer Pro 11.

Chris

[Acorn]

Has anyone else come across this?
If you want to create your own button, then create a navigation bar i.e. Arrange > Create Navigation Bar, your button HAS to contain text in the group.
If you want a graphic as a button, without text, you can't create a navigation bar. The only work around seems to be to put some random text in your button design, and hide it by making it the same colour. Why is this? You ma,y for example want the text to reveal on the mouse over layer. Surely there must be times where people want navbars without text?
By the way, I'm using Designer Pro 11.

Chris

Chris, I simply add a space.

I think the NavBar concept grew from Xara's Menu Maker, which preceded CSS-only NavBars by quite a time.
I prefer to use CSS for my designs but I see where Xara is coming from in this approach.
Acorn

[gwpriester]

It takes a little extra effort but you can create your own buttons and drop down menus http://gwpriester.com/menu-test/

IMHO this is more challenging and fun as well.