Ok this should be really simple but I can't figure it out and can't find this addressed in any of the tutorials on Lynda.com.
In a new project, I draw a button on the artboard, How then do I change all the button states? I can go into properties of the button itself and adjust the background color or gradient but the clicked state is unchanged? So how do I get into those properties?
Basically I want to create all my custom button states in Photoshop or Expression Design and then use them in a button in Blend.
What am I missing?
Apparently the same things that I've been missing, every time I make another attempt to do the most basic things with this program...I'll be damned if I can figure out how this is supposed to work (I can figure out similar things in
everybody else's programs...).
Welcome to the club. Note how mant threads have been started here on this forum with similar, really basic, entry-level questions...and note how few of them have been answered in any meaningful way. The people who post those entry-level questions seem to just give up and go away.
I also note the incredibly small volume of traffic in these forums. Hmm....
BTW, although everyone at Microsoft repeatedly points neophytes to the free "tutorials" on lynda.com, keep in mind that those are ancient (2 years old?) and the latest version of the products differ substantially from what's documented there (and in most other places). IMHO, the lynda.com tutorials are worse than utterly useless -- you can spend many an hour looking at them and then trying to get past square one on your own machine, and eventually you find out that what you're using just doesn' match up with what's shown there.
This is, I think, the single biggest barrier to entry in this program: there seem to be no training resources available that actually match what a new user --
of the current release -- will see on their screen. Microsoft doesn't appear to think this is important...at least that's what I am forced to conclude since they seem to put no effort whatsoever in providing training resources. It's pretty frustrating.
Oh well, my copy of CS4 should be arriving soon and I can stop wasting my time trying to discover how this undocumented program works and just get stuff done in Flash.
