April 2006
Beginner
544 pages
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15.8. Working with Button and Scrollbar Styles
Problem
You want to apply style settings for buttons and scrollbars.
Solution
Use a theme other than the Halo theme. Use the buttonColor style property for the button face and the border styles for the button border. Use scrollTrackColor style property for the scroll track.
Discussion
Button and scrollbar styles are some of the styles that simply will not work with the default Halo theme. Instead, you need to use the Sample theme or a derivative of the Sample theme. For more information about using a different theme with the components, see Recipe 15.12.
After you’ve added a non-Halo theme to your Flash document, you can use the following style properties to change the appearance of buttons and scrollbars:
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buttonColor Changes the color of button faces and the outer portion of the upper-left border for buttons. Also changes the outer highlight for borders in general, including text input, text area, and so on.
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highlightColor The inner portion of the upper-left border for buttons.
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shadowColor The inner portion of the lower-right border for buttons.
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borderColor The outer portion of the lower-right border for buttons.
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scrollTrackColor The color of the scroll track for scrollbars.
Not only are actual button components considered buttons, but so are the portions of combo boxes, scrollbars, numeric steppers, and other components that allow the user to click or drag some element. Most buttons inherit styles properly. However, actual button components ...
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