Plain rectangular buttons

Hi, Paul. 

A few ways to do that. If you're happy with the states of the button and you don't need an icon on the button, here's what I'd do.

1. Draw a button and draw a shape (rectangle with square corners). Use the Format Painter tool to copy the states and colors from the button to the shape. This'll essentially turn your shape into a button. You could create the states manually. I just find it's easier to copy from an existing shape.
2. Select the gradient fill and remove one of the stops. For both stop 1 and stop 2, set the color to the same selection. This is still a gradient but it's the same color at both ends

S

Paul;

Instead of using buttons that are pre formatted how about just inserting a rectangle shape and applying your triggers to that?

You could add your own hover, etc states if needed but it won't have the fancy gradients of a premade button.

Tim

Hi,

Thats really weird- never even noticed you cant have 'gradient free' buttons.

Not an answer to your question- as I cant work it out either, but maybe you could just insert a simple square shape, with solid no gradient fill colour, and then add a trigger, so when this shape is clicked it would do an action. I think you can assign any action to any shape- so while it wouldnt be one of the built in buttons, you could achieve everything a 'proper' button can do with your bog standard square shape. Thus getting around this problem.

Hope that helps

Lol beaten by Tim there- and he used less words for same solution!

The button shape defaults to a shade-flexible gradient. It's a feature that changes the color of the gradient to any shade by selecting a solid color. I think the dialog could do a better job of indicating this. 

I figured that a shape can have text in it, and can also fire triggers .. however the "button" concept is a little misleading!

am now onto testing the video player - hoping it can work on iPad, standalone, laptop etc