Custom button behavior (was Windows appearance issues)

[Thomas McGrath III]

Ken,

Is there a way to set a drop shadow on these fake / real buttons? I 
mean automatically like the "hiliteIcon" etc.

Tom


On Feb 11, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> I used to provide for standard HIG button behavior (sliding
>> the cursor out unhilites, etc.) with "the mouse" (if the
>> mouse is within the rect of me...else...), but in Rev it
>> should probably be done with 'mouseMove'.
>>
>> I can't seem to get the behavior to work right with
>> 'mouseMove'. Does anyone have a generic script?
>>
>> Haven't had to deal with this before in Rev, because I just
>> worked Mac stuff.
>
> Ken, you don't need to do this. You just need to create graphics for 
> the
> different states of your button, then create a transparent button and:
>
> 1) set the "icon" of the button to the graphic that corresponds to its
> normal (unclicked or "up") state
> 2) set the "hiliteIcon" of the button to the graphic that corresponds 
> to
> its depressed (or "down") state
>
> These will make it act like a true buttton (i.e. if you mouse down and
> slide out of the button, it will return to its normal state until you
> mouse back in and it goes back to its "down" state)
>
> 3) (optional) if you want a different graphic for the state of the
> button when it's disabled, set the "disabledIcon" of the button to the
> graphic that corresponds to the disabled state
>
> 4) (optional) if you want a different graphic for the state when the
> mouse is moved into and over the button but the mouse is not down (it's
> "rollover" state), set the "armedIcon" of the button to the graphic 
> that
> corresponds to the rollover state
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
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