Contents

Introduction
Overview
Key Benefits
Key Features
Revision History
Working with UltraButton
Getting Started with UltraButton
Using UltraButton
"Edit" Window
"Template" Panel
"Settings" Panel
"General" Tab
"Format" Tab
"Icon" Tab
"Background" Tab
"Publish Wizard"
Registration
Registration
Unregistered Copy Limitation
License
Online Support

 
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UltraButton

  • Ease of use. You can create a Web button simply by selecting a template, entering button text, setting attributes such as font style, button background and icon image.
  • You can easily produce all kinds of attractive image buttons or Flash buttons without any experiences in button design, picture making or Flash development.
  • Multi-state buttons are supported. You can set different attributes for the three states "Normal", "Over" and "Click" of a button separately, so when the cursor is over a button, or when you left-click the button, the appearance of the button will change.
  • You can arbitrarily add or remove buttons, adjust the order or direction of the buttons in your project.
  • The appearance of a button can be copied as a picture onto the clipboard, or saved to a specific local image file.
  • 80 categories, 600+ types of meticulously designed popular button templates of difference styles are attached. You can create a button with a template, and customize it based on your requirements after that. You can also save the visual settings of a button you are editing in the project as a custom template to be reused in the future.
  • It supports multi-select operations. You can select multiple buttons in the project at the same time and modify attributes together.
  • You can specify the text content, link URL and the target window to open the link for each button separately.
  • For buttons with the "Auto Size" option is set, their sizes can be calculated automatically based on the text content and icon setting of the button. You do not need to adjust the sizes of the buttons again and again after you adjust their text contents.
  • For buttons with the "Size to Largest" option is set, the size of the largest one among them is used as their unified size automatically. This feature can be used to make sure that multiple buttons in one project always have the same size.
  • The font, style, size, color and position used to draw text of each button can be specified separately. Besides, two special font drawing effects "Shadow" and "Outer Glow" are provided.
  • The image (BMP, JPEG or GIF) and the position of the icon for each button can be set separately for each button. The icon of a button can be positioned either with the "text-relative positioning" mode or the "button-absolute positioning" mode.
  • Separate background images (BMP, JPEG or GIF) can be set for different buttons.
  • Resizing method for the drawing of the background image for each button can be set separately. Resizing methods include "Cell Split" which splits the button like a 3x3 matrix, and "Stretch", an approach similar to simple bitmap stretching.
  • Recoloring method for the drawing of the background image for each button can be set separately. Recoloring methods include "RGB" which adjusts the RGB values of the pixels, and "HSL" which adjusts the values of Hue, Saturation and Lightness for the pixels. With this feature, you can conveniently modify the color of an existing button template into a color you are satisfied with.
  • The powerful feature of Publish. The buttons made by UltraButton can be output as GIF or JPEG images or an Adobe Flash movie. Users can choose to create image files or a Flash movie, and then can insert them/it into local web pages.