Button highlight colors in layered menu

Hello all,
I am wraspping up a dvd project and just have one small issue. I have a layered menu here with an overlay layer that contains noting but a white background and a few little black boxes for showing up when a button is selected. When a button is selected, I want those boxes to black, and when activated i want it to turn gray, but as it is now when a button is selected those boxes are white, and when activated they turn yellow. Ive messed around some in the colors tab of the buttons, but as of yet have been unable to figure it out. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

You're welcome, k chen, but be careful. Some clients are very picky about fonts.
The layered menu method lets you basically use any graphic element you want, which can then be replaced with any other graphical element, of the same relative size, for the selected and activated states. So, for example a blue frowny face can be replaced with a multicolored happy face. Or, more specifically to your project, a nonstandard font can change colors. But, you lose reliability, player compatibility, and responsiveness, not to mention audio and video motion background capability.
An overlay menu, which is the standard for commercially produced dvds, is best used to add a graphic element to your menu, rather than replace or alter one that's already there, e.g. an arrow that appears next to a menu item to show that it's selected. What you lose in graphical flexibility, you gain in performance speed, reliability, compatibility. And you can have a video background and audio.
That's why overlay menus are the industry standard.

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You may want to consider upgrading from Acrobat 9.5 Standard to Acrobat X Pro. Acrobat X Professional has the redaction tool which is really easy to use.
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## Oops! - I should have read your post more carefully the first time. Hey, at least you have a new number, even if it does provide as little real information as to what the source of the error is as the one I mention!
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James Roller1 wrote:
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Part 3: Creating Motion Buttons and Motion Masks
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Get yourself a copy of Total Training for Encore DVD 1.5 by Daniel Brown. This exact scenerio was explained in section 4) Building Menu and
section 7) Advanced techniques.
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They now offer their entire online.
www.totaltraining.com
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HI! I want to know what is the easiest way to modify the
highlight color or
a button to RED. ( I want the helo-green or orange theme).
I know how to change the theme or by using the
setStyle("themeColor",
"haloOrange"); BUT there is no RED. so what is the easiest
root to modify
all button instances.?
PaulD

David Stiller wrote:
> Paul,
>
>> I know how to change the theme or by using the
setStyle("themeColor",
>> "haloOrange"); BUT there is no RED. so what is the
easiest root to
>> modify all button instances.?
>
> Instead of named themes (like haloOrange), just specify
a hexadecimal
> color as the second parameter. setStyle("themeColor",
0xFF0000); --
> You'll have to experiment whether that second parameter
needs to be in
> quotes or not.
>
>
> David Stiller
> Adobe Community Expert
> Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
> "Luck is the residue of good design."
HI! Thanks it worked. below is the whole script to modify an
instance to
RED -- or any color.
import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration;
var new_style:Object = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
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setStyle("styleName", "myStyle");
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Paul D

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