User Guide

240 Chapter 7 Creating Menus Using the Standard Method
Set the normal color settings based on whether the background includes the normal
button graphics.
• If the normal button graphics are included in the background, set the opacity for the
Normal color to 0 (completely transparent).
• If the normal graphics are not included in the background, set the opacity and select
the color so that the buttons appear as intended.
6 Select Selected and Activated under Selection States and set the highlight color
settings for the selected and activated states.
You will not see any of these settings take effect until you start creating buttons. You
can configure the settings for all three of the color mapping sets by selecting their
buttons (1, 2, and 3).
Note: If you set the Normal opacity to 15 and see other colors around the edges of
items in the overlay graphic, the graphic has anti-aliased edges. To prevent the extra
colors from appearing, you should either correct the overlay graphic or use the
advanced overlay method.
Using Advanced Overlay Color Mapping
Using an advanced overlay, you can map highlight colors to up to four overlay colors. You
choose one of two mapping types for the overlay graphic (chroma or grayscale), based
on how you created the overlay graphic. See “Creating Overlays” on page 86 for details.
Since advanced overlays can have up to four colors, you’re more likely to use them to
create the normal button states (in addition to the selected and activated states) than
you would be with a simple overlay. The following sections describe strategies you can
use for each button state.
Normal State
Normal settings determine what a button looks like when not selected or activated.
They apply to the entire overlay graphic, not just the areas identified by the button
active areas.
• If the normal state of the button is part of the background (the overlay does not provide
button graphics), then you will generally set the opacity for each of the overlay colors to 0,
making them invisible (and making the highlight colors mapped to them unimportant).
• If the normal state of the button is not part of the background (the overlay provides the
button graphics), then you need to assign a color and opacity for each overlay color
for the normal state.