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Topic: Make FX button text "light up" when selected

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In V4, you can now select the effect and the text on the button will display what it is. But is it possible to change the color of the text when it is selected to give the appearance of lighting up? That would be a great enhancement to my skin.

 
Posted Tue 29 Aug 06 @ 11:22 am
This is possible using a pannel to show the text another color.

But then if you activate the effects through the EFFECT pannel in the browser, it won't light up...
 
Uhm... I'm not sure how this works... you make the effect button a pannel toggle? Wouldn't the effect button not work then?

I noticed that if you click on the button, it seems to get blurry or bold or somethnig like that. I thought maybe there was actually a color for selected or such.

It'd be a nice feature for an update perhaps...
 
In fact you are right, thinking of it... A button can't have two different functions so you can't have an effect button that toggles a pannel :(
 
Have you tried using text2?
 
Text2? No... I'll have to see how that works. I thought that would also prevent the function from working, but I"ll try it out.
 
Eh... it doesn't seem to do anything when I activate it. This is the code I used: 


--Video Transition

<button action="video_trans" rightclick="temporary">

	<size width="103" height="32"/>

	<pos x="511" y="339"/>

	<text dx="5" dy="6" width="97" font="Impact" size="19" color="#BBBBBB" align="center" format="%videotransition" scroll="yes"/>

	<text2 dx="5" dy="6" width="97" font="Impact" size="19" color="#FF0000" align="center" format="%videotransition" scroll="yes"/>

</button>
 
This is a very interesting point, to have a different font when the function is on.
I think this should supported by the software.
I need something like this for the loop.
 
ah I forgot text2 doesn't work anymore. Posted to the dev staff. For sure this would be useful to me.
 
Thanks Cyder... it should be an easy addition, so I'm looking forward to seeing that feature in a future update.
 


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