You can use up to 4 lights to customize the look of your web button.

To add lights to your web button you must first click on the Button Lights tab.

Click on the light check boxes to activate the Diffuse Light(s) and/or Spot Light(s) (specular) you want to use and choose the light(s) color from their respective color picker.

The color of the light in combination with the color reflected by the material specifies the resulting color of the button in the area affected by the light.

You can also define the light intensity of each light which will add the relevant effect to your web button.

You can customize the effect of the combination of lights by moving accordingly the “light icon” corresponding to the light(s) you are using.

Automatically the relevant changes are made and you can see them directly through the preview window.

 

First of all, please ensure the ‘Cross-frame support’ option is enabled at the Tools > Compile Properties window.

So when you compile the menu, you will be asked to provide html pages to link both files: the menu.js and the menu_sub.js.

 

Presets are web buttons that have pre-defined colors, dimensions, lights, material, text, etc.

In order to load presets select the specific button shape you want and you will be provided with a selection of presets that have been adapted to that specific Shape.

If you have loaded a preset and edited it, you must save it before loading another. If you load a second preset the pre-defined parameters of the second one will override the parameters of the first one except for the background, dimensions, margins, text content, text size, text bold/italic and button shadow.

 

Q: I have loaded a javascript menu in my main page.
However the background images of the menu disappear.

A: This is a know bug of the IE browser.

If you are using Apache server, try to do the following:

1. Αdd the "expires_module"

2. Add to the .htaccess file in the ROOT directory, the following lines:

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresDefault A86400

ExpiresByType image/gif A86400

ExpiresByType image/jpeg A86400

ExpiresByType image/png A86400

ExpiresByType text/html A86400

 

In order to add shadow effects to your web button text first click on the ” Enable Text Shadow” button.

Edit the position by defining its horizontal and vertical placement.

You can also add color to the shadow by choosing the one you want from the color picker and customize the text shadow blur and intensity by defining the spread and opacity properties respectively.

In order to disable the shadow effect from your text, simply deactivate the “Enable Text Shadow” check box and all text shadow customization options will remain inoperative.

Automatically the relevant changes are made and you can see them directly through the preview window.

 


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