Duplicate web layer

Question

Hi all,
I've been searching and can't find the answer to this. I have
tried to move on to Fireworks from Imageready now I have no choice,
but I am having trouble finding the same features that imageready
offered... Could anyone tell me:
1. How do I duplicate a sub-layer in the Web Layer? I have a
set of buttons with rollover states. In Imageready I could create
one set with the OFF state, then duplicate that and it would keep
all the slice names the same. Then I could just change the OFF bit
to ON at the end of each title. Does anyone know a good way of
doing this in Fireworks?
2. If I duplicate a slice, can I keep the filename the same?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

cozzabags wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Linda. This would be handy for
things such as Rollover
> states, where Button's will remain the same shape in
slice.
But they will. The frames are where the stacks are located,
not the web
layer. The web layer rides on top of everything.
Here's a description that might help to get your head around
the concept
of the way frames work in Fireworks.
Frames are like the cells of an animation, but instead of
being in a
strip, as they are in a film, they are stacked on top of each
other, as
they are in a flip book. On each frame you can have many
layers--the
background layer, a tree image layer, a house image layer.
Unless you
instruct Fireworks to share these layers across the frames,
each frame
will have its own discrete set of layers.
When you draw a slice over frame one, the slice creates a
cutting guide
that affects all the material on the frames below frame 1 as
well. Let's
say you have 6 frames. Naming the slice on frame 1
automatically names
all the images stacked under it in frames 2 through 6 as
well. Each
frame will be exported as a separate image, named
sequentially, as
myimage, myimage_f2, myimage_f3, etc.
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