Start Menu Button help
Saturday, September 3, 2011 by 53v3n | Discussion: Beginners
I've been working with this for a couple days now and figured everything out. I have my desktop the way I want it except the darn start menu buttons.
Is there a way to make them always highlighted, like the roll over effect, but always ON. I'm trying to make a completely blank UI so all the components look like there floating. Just adding graphics to the normal state in start menu>left hand side>item mouseover doesn't seem to work. Also tried the same with glyphs and can't seem to get this to work. Is it possible?
thx
Reply #2 Saturday, September 3, 2011 7:42 PM
yeah, thats what I was starting to think. Didn't think of trying it with fonts - THANKS
Reply #3 Saturday, September 3, 2011 9:12 PM
There are 3 states on the start menu mouseover image, Normal, Pressed and Mouseover. Just put an image in for the Normal image state and it will show up on the menu all the time. Also, which OS are you skinning?
Oops, read it again and realized you were talking about the start panel itself and not the all programs menu like in XP. Evidently there is no way to do what you are asking.
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Reply #1 Saturday, September 3, 2011 7:17 PM
If I understand you correctly, you want the menu choices to always be highlighted as if you were pointing at them? There isn't really an exact way to do this that I know of, depending of course on what the highlight is. The reason is that normally the menu item isn't highlighted by anything. It lays on top of the start menu graphic. When you point at the menu, it applies the graphic in the mouseover ON TOP of that. You could use fonts to add effects though to make the items stand out more (e.g. font color, outline, bold, what have you.)
I hope that is of some help.