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One of the most exciting features in DHTML Menu Builder is its ability
to let you propagate the style of one menu item over to another item or even
a set of items. DHTML Menu Builder implements an advanced
clipboard that will let you copy one, several, or all the styles applied to
one item and then paste them over a set of items of the same type.
To copy the style of one item, just select it. Then, click the
Edit menu and then click
Copy. You may also use the shortcut copy
icon
on the DHTML Menu Builder toolbar.
This will open the selective copy dialog. This dialog will show you
all the settings you can copy from one item, organized hierarchically so
they can be easily selected.
On the topmost level of the settings selection are the most
global style settings, such as Color, Font, Image, etc. When you click
on the small
sign beside each style,you can expand the style definition and
see more detailed options about the selected style.
Let's say for example that you would like to copy the image style
of one command over to the other.
To do so, just select the command, click Edit,
then click Copy and check the box next to Image style. Click OK to proceed.
Now, select the command to which the style will be applied and
click Edit and then
Paste. You may also use the shortcut
paste icon
on the DHTML Menu Builder toolbar. Finally, click OK to paste the Image style.
Now,
let's suppose that you just want to copy the right hand image of a command
that is activated when the mouse pointer pauses over the command. In other words, the command has been assigned to the Mouse Over event.
To copy this image, just select the source command, click
Edit, then Copy. Now, click on
the
sign next to the Image style to reveal its settings. Then click the
sign next to the Right style property and check box next to the Over
option.
To paste the selected style property, just select the target
command and click the paste shortcut icon on the toolbar. When the dialog appears, accept the selection by clicking
OK.
Selective Paste Dialog Options
When you want to propagate the style of one item over to several
others, the paste dialog offers you several options to let you do a
process that, if done by hand, would take hours of work.
The Selective Paste dialog has four main style propagation
options:
- Paste to the ... : This option allows you to paste
the selected style to the selected item of the same type.
- Paste to all the commands under the .... group: This
option allows you to paste the selected style to all the
commands under the same group. Note that this option is only
available when you have copied a style attribute from a
command.
- Paste to all ... : This option will paste the
selected style to all the items on the project of the same type.
- Advanced: This option allows you to explicitly select
which items (of the same type) will receive the pasted
style.
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