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Encore has a lot of buttons for you to choose from in the Library Panel but for this particular lesson I'm going to show you how you can create your own button. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on one of these buttons here and, of course, when I do something like that, the Properties Panel changes to tell you what you have selected. As you see here it says Button and I can click on the Menu and it says Menu. So this is important because when you create a button inside of Encore, you want to definitely make sure that Encore recognizes that fact when you click on it and the Menu changes to Button. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the old Type Tool and I'm going to click right about here and I'm going to type Click Me. Alright. So I have some words here and I'll deselect it by clicking on the Move Tool and I can go ahead and resize it and I can move it around of course. But of course I have to have the Direct Selection Tool to click on it again. That's one of the things you have to get used to when you're working with Encore; the different tools. So of course this tool, when I click on the text, I can't click on it because Encore, at this point, thinks that the text is part of the menu. Notice that when I click on it, it says Menu. So what we have to do is to grab the Direct Selection Tool, click on our new button to be and then go to the Object Menu and choose to Convert to Button. You can likewise use the keyboard shortcut if you're going to do this quite a bit. In this case, on the Mac it's Command B. On the PC it would be Control B. Now you notice that it says Button all of a sudden in the Properties Panel. So I'm going to deselect it and I'll click on it again and we have a green outline. Now, one thing about buttons; they are kind of stingy with their space on the menu. So when I click and move it, you get these red boundaries. These boundaries tell you that the buttons are overlapping and we're going to mess their functionality up if you do so. So they don't like to live with other buttons in close proximity. That's good thing to keep your eye on. Buttons are kind of like those predatory cats. They like to live on their own. Alright. So now that we have this button, let's go to Photoshop and see exactly what Encore did and I can tell you in advance that it used little special code that Encore and Photoshop share that tells us that it's a button. So I'm going to go to my Edit Menu and choose Edit Menu in Photoshop and wait just a couple of seconds while Photoshop launches and in a second we're going to see the menu appear and if we take a look in the Layers Panel, let me go ahead and get rid of these guys temporarily, it says Click Me. It's in its own layer group here and it also, by the way, has a little code here, the little plus symbol inside of the parenthesis. Now, later on in the tutorial I will talk much more about what these little codes mean and how to use them and understand them. And as you can see when I twirl the rest of the menu down, we see we have some other code here and these are for the Subpictures. So that is exactly what Encore did for us. It took the text that we created, it wrote the Photoshop little code for us, created a little menu and now it understands that this is a button and not just regular text. So that's how you create your own custom buttons inside of Encore and work in conjunction with Photoshop and the little private code that it adds to create your own buttons inside of Encore.
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |