SI FAQ: Change Deko Styles

How do I change text styles or colors in a Deko object?

Change Deko Styles

You can select different text styles - colors, fonts, sizes, shadows, etc - in a Deko object, even combine multiple styles in a single object, by embedding the <style> or <preset> tags in the text override or contents text.

For example, suppose you design a red font and save the Deko style as "red.sty" in the default folder Deko uses for styles. Save a green style in "green.sty" and a normal white style in "white.sty". To mix these styles in a single Deko object, set the text override or contents field to something like:

<style 
					file="white.sty"/>My text can be <style file="red.sty"/>red<style 
					file="white"/> or <style file="green.sty"/>green

You can also change text styles by selecting different presets - the eight styles that appear in the thumbnails just below the graphic window in Deko. Suppose you have a white style in preset 1, a red style in preset 2, and a green style in preset 3. The previous example could be written:

<preset 
						id="1"/>My text can be <preset id="2"/>red<preset id="1"/> or 
						<preset id="3"/>green

<style> and <preset> are two of the "Deko tags" - special directives that can be embedded in text override or contents text. You can also select different layers, load arbitrary dko files, or even execute arbitrary Deko macro code. For a complete list of these tags, download Pinnacle's DekoTags example (about 120K bytes), or you can just view the readme file here directly. The example is a self-extracting exe that creates a new DekoTags folder in C:/DekoCast/samples. This is an unsupported example created and owned by Pinnacle Systems/Avid Technology. The copy on this site is provided for your convenience.

See the Images in a Crawl FAQ for an example of how to mix arbitrary image files and text in a crawl.

last modified 12/20/2006

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