I downloaded a .ccf file from here and I am in the process of tweaking it to my specifications and system devices. For the most part things have gone fairly well, but when I try to add buttons and more namely frames such as transports they look fine in pronto edit, but do not even show up in the Emulator. I tried moving them to front but for some reason that did not work. I was just wondering why the buttons do not show up. For the transports, you only see parts of the buttons and not the entire thing. Just curious as to why this happens, and how to cure it.

On a somewhat related topic, can you shrink the size of a transport or frame related button found in the gallery? I would like to shrink the size, but cant export it to mess with it in photoshop.

thanks

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If buttons are in a frame, part of them might be outside the frame, try moving the button so that it is completely in the frame.

1) dblclk a button
2) click the icon tab
3) right click the icon you want and click on save

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Most likely this is because there is no action assigned to the button.
If you assign an action (at the minimum a 0.1 delay) they will probably show up.

The parts that show are probably the bits inbetween the buttons which are either labels, not buttons or have delay actions assigned to them.

Hope this helps,
Bruce.

Thanks for the quick reply! I really appreciate it. I will try this when I get home, hopefully my problems are solved!

To answer the Frame Question.

Click on the Frame. If you click on a button in the frame, you can select the frame by pressing ALT-O. (Think Owner.)

Pressing SHIFT + Arrows will move the top or left side of the frame.
Pressing CTRL + Arrows will move the bottom or right side of the frame.

Couple of quick key hints for you:

ALT+O will switch from a BUTTON to the Owner FRAME.
ALT+C will switch from the FRAME to the BUTTON.
(these are useful when the button is the same size or bigger than the frame - yes it's possible.)

Arrow keys moves everthing around 1 pixel at a timel.
SPACE + Arrow keyes moves everything about 10 pixels at a time.
SHIFT/CTRL + Arrows allows you to resize buttons or frames.

TAB allows you to jump between buttons and frames.

ALT+F - Move to FRONT
ALT+B - Move to BACK.
These are useful when the white edge of a button is covering up another button. (usually when you have round button icons.)

I hope that these help.

-=Nick=-

is there any way to save an entire frame, or would that mess up the buttons contained within?

what do you mean by "save an entire frame"? when you save a CCF it saves everything.

There is a transport that I am wanting to use, but as it is now, it is too big to fit in the space provided. When I drag the transport from the gallery it drops it in all as one parent with several children. What I would like to do is to save that entire parent that I brought over from the gallery so that I can shrink it in photoshop then put it back into my .ccf file.

The only problem that I could see is if you shrink the whole file and save it, it will be saved as all one button instead of play, stop, forward, etc..... basically I just want to make the transport smaller without cutting off part of the buttons.

Can this be done?

No. you have to fix each child (button) you cannot change all the graphics on different buttons at once just because they are in a frame.

Is there a good way to go about doing this? I know it will be work any way, but is there a path of least resistence? Some of the buttons I would like to edit are actually 2 buttons put together, one main button, and another one that completes a side or something.

Since all you want to do is a reduction, I think the easiest way would be to do each of them individually.

The other thing you can do is run it in the emulator and do a "print screen" to save a bmp of it in a file. Then you can cut out the part you want and shrink it as a whole. The next step would be breaking it into pieces.

thanks guys for all your help. next step is to tackle it!

You have to set an IR or delay to the button for it to show. I just set mine to a delay of 0.1 sec until I want it to do something