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Creating your own Navigation Bars
You can create a Navbar from any button design. The Designs Gallery contains many different button
designs, or you can draw your own. See the „Creating your own Mouseover Buttons
" section of the Getting Started chapter for information on how to do this.The button may or may not
include a mouseover state.
To create a Navbar, select the button and then select "Arrange" > "Create Navigation Bar". The
Navigation Bar dialog
appears and you can immediately add more buttons to your bar, just as for other Navbars.
You can also create Navbars with more than one button design (so you can have different designs for the
first and/or last button in the bar). See the section below, which describes how to do that.
Button design restrictions
There are some rules you must follow when creating your own buttons for use in Navbars.
Stretchy button limitations
In order to get reliable results when your buttons are automatically stretched you are advised to make
sure that there are no path control points or graduated fill/transparency control points in the horizontal
area occupied by the button label text object.
Text in a button
Each state of the button design must be a group object containing a text object that can serve as the
button label. This text object should be a simple text object, not a text column or text area. That is, it
should be created in the Text Tool
by clicking on the page and typing, not by first dragging a text line or text box.
Soft grouping button states
If there are several states in your button, e.g., mouseoff and mouseover, they need to be soft grouped
together, so that they stay together when one state is moved or otherwise transformed.
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