DISPLAY DIFFERENT COLOUR ON ACTIVE NAV BAR BUTTON

[Acorn]

Many thanks for your help. It is much appreciated.

Xara Designer Pro is a fantastic piece of software but I think the web designer is badly let down by the navigation bar element. I think it needs a makeover urgently.

Which is why I stopped using them way back. I use CSS.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Also, you can create a new layer, name it MouseDown and make sure this layer is on top of the MouseOff and MouseOver layers.

Create a third button state. This will be the button that shows on the current page.

This only works however with first level pages and not with sub menu options. Someday, perhaps long after I have left this earth, Xara may address this. But I am not holding my breath.

[Acorn]

Also, you can create a new layer, name it MouseDown and make sure this layer is on top of the MouseOff and MouseOver layers.
Create a third button state. This will be the button that shows on the current page.
This only works however with first level pages and not with sub menu options. Someday, perhaps long after I have left this earth, Xara may address this. But I am not holding my breath.

Gary, i have always assumed that the MouseDown state is what you get when you click on or hold a button.The Xara Help isn't.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

True. But is also becomes the active page button. Though as I pointed out, only on first level pages.

[Acorn]

True. But is also becomes the active page button. Though as I pointed out, only on first level pages.

Well Gary, I have spent a lot of time trying any combination of Mouse Off Over & Down on a Button or NavBar to achieve nothing to match what the sparse Xara Help describes or what you suggest.

Could you offer up a button and NavBar across a number of pages so I can dig into it to understand where I am adrift?

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Acorn - See post #8 https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...081#post623081

[Acorn]

Thanks gary, I was building mine totally from scratch but somehow I had crated a Navbar Group of one of the buttons and was trying to NavBar that with other groups!

MouseDown show the NavBar button in a "clicked" state for the page it is linked to.

CSS is easier.

Acorn