Buttons

Duplicating buttons

You now that if you change the drawings inside the symbol all the instances of the symbol will be changed. What to do if you need to place several similarly looking buttons on the stage with different captions? This task is a typical for Web design and needs to be addressed.

Create several copies of one button symbol (you may hold Ctrl-Shift and drag the button with mouse to make a copy or simply use copy and paste or drag instances onto the stage from the Library).

After that highlight one of the buttons and click right button of the mouse. Select “Duplicate Symbol” . Enter a new name (according to desired caption, for example btCancel) in appeared pop-up menu.

Now when you highlight this button you will see on the Properties Inspector “Instance of btCancel” . For the previous button it could be “Instance of btOK” or how did you named it. If you check the Library you will see that both buttons now appear as independent symbols, even though they look the same.

Now you can change the caption of second button without influencing the first one.

Copy more buttons, duplicate them and change their caption. They are designed to be ready for placing on the Web page.

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