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Creating easy navigation buttons using the button object in eZediaMXReturn to the Classroom
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Level I Project by clicking on one of the three choices presented below. eZediaMX has a Button object available on the tool bar. We’ll use that to make our buttons. It doesn’t get any simpler. 1. Have your document open in eZediaMX. 2. Have a list of the buttons you need to create. The one button that must be on every page is the Quit button. It is only polite to give people a way out of your project otherwise it's like standing in front of the door when the neighbors try to leave! 3. Click on the Button Icon in the toolbar. Figure 1. Figure 1:  4. A button object will appear on the frame as a small rectangle with a button icon on the left. Figure 2. Figure 2: The button object that will appear in the center of the frame. You can move it where you want by doing a click, hold, and drag with your mouse.  5. Double-click on the button object to open up the dialog box OR right-click on it and choose Get Object Information. You’ll end up in the same place no matter which route you take. Figure 3. Figure 3: Shows the Button Object dialog box with my having typed in a title for the button.  6. The Button Object dialog box is open. The Quit button is a special situation. You have to click on Type and choose Quit as the type of button. Figure 4. Figure 4: Next to "Type," you can click on the box and choose the "Quit" option to turn the button into an automatic Quit button.  7. When you create your other buttons (Next, Previous, Table of Contents, Home), you will select the “GoTo Button” option. Figure 5. Note: A GoTo Button Object is NOT the same as a GoTo Object.Figure 5: Here's the Button Object dialog box again with the GoTo Button option being selected under "Type" of button.  8. While you have the Button Object dialog box open, UNCHECK “This Frame Only” for each of the buttons that has to appear on every frame like Quit, Home, and Table of Contents. (See Figures 3, 4, or 5.) Also, click on Color and choose a color for your button. Later, when you’re back at your document frame, you’ll be able to choose a color for the text on your button. Figure 6 shows what pops up when you click on "color" in the Button Object dialog box. Just click on a color you like and then click on OK. Figure 6: The Pick Color dialog box can be opened so you can choose a color for your button.  9. When you are returned to your document frame, the button you’ve created should be the color you have chosen and should have the proper label showing. With the button selected (the handles are showing around it as in Figure 2), go to Format > Text and choose the font you would like to use. You might want to start out with an Arial, 16, bold. Then, click on Format and Color to choose a color for your text. Make sure you use high-contrast so that your end-user will be able to read what you have on the buttons. 9. Place your buttons where you want them to go on the frame. Select them and then add them into the Document Well. (You should be using one.) The advantage of adding them to the well after you have them placed correctly is that they will “remember” where you had them when you drag them out of the well on another frame and it will save you time. Think: Buttons –
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