TABLE OF CONTENTS Let s fix that ugly subpicture highlight for our text button now. We re going to use Highlight Group 2 to control the subpicture for the button. Here s what we have to do:
Make sure that a color set other than Automatic is selected in the Menu Color Set dialog and click OK. For our example we will use the Modified Automatic color set.
Select the text button in the Menu viewer.
In the Properties panel, click on the drop-down arrow in the Highlight control and choose Group 2.
Open the Menu Color Set dialog again by choosing Menu ? Edit Menu Color Set. Position the dialog so that you can see the button to be modified in the Menu viewer.
In the Highlight Group 2 control set, click on the color swatch for number 1 under Selected State and choose a white color in the Color Picker dialog. It doesn t have to be pure white; a grayish-white will do fine.
Set the opacity for number 1 to a value that is about halfway transparent. You cannot type in your own percentage. There are only 16 levels of opacity available for each highlight color, and all 16 are listed in the drop-down box. In this case 47% works nicely.
Keeping the look and feel of our menu template means that the Activated state of our text button needs to be the same as the Selected State. Take care of this little detail quickly by checking the...
