Adobe 22030000 User Guide - Page 71

ENCORE CS3 67 User Guide • Click the Show Guides button at the bottom of the Menu Viewer. Name menus and buttons To make menus and buttons easier to identify, you can change their default names in the Properties panel. Properties panel for selected menu (left) and selected button (right) See also "Renumber buttons" on page 111 Name and describe menus Names and descriptions of menus can help keep your project organized. In addition, you can use the Description field to add special notes or to embed web links in a Flash project. (See "Embed web links in your Flash project" on page 179.) 1 Select the menu in the Project panel or Menus panel. 2 In the Properties panel, select the current name and type a new name. 3 In the Description box, type any notes about the menu. To rename a menu or button, you can also right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) it and choose Rename. Type the new name in the dialog box, and click OK. Name a menu button By default, button names match the text on the buttons. If you change one, the other updates automatically. You can unlink the button name from the button text and name the button independently. You can also set a button name to match the name of the element that the button is linked to. 1 In the Menu Viewer, select the button. 2 On the Basic tab of the Properties panel, do one of the following: • To give the button a new name without affecting the button's text in the menu, deselect Sync Button Text And Name and type a name for the button in the Name box. • To ensure that the button name matches the name of the element that the button is linked to, deselect Sync Button Text And Name, and select Set Name From Link. • To ensure that the button name and button text always match, select Sync Button Text And Name and deselect Set Name From Link. Sync Button Text And Name is selected by default and affects only the topmost text layer in the button layer set. Set Name From Link is deselected by default.