3Designing with NevoStudio Pro

Working with Buttons Designing with NevoStudio Pro
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A Note About Macros
Macros make activities (such as watching a movie or listening to music)
easier for users to accomplish. Most users don’t think in terms of the steps
they must perform in order to watch a movie (turn on the TV, turn on the
DVD player, set the input to Video, etc.); they simply want to watch a movie.
Defining a set of actions to perform these functions automatically for them
increases the usability of the configurations you create.
NevoStudio Pro supports two types of macros:
• Send command is specified for a missing device.
• Jump command to a deleted page.
• Circular reference.
• One-time use macros, which are simply a sequence of actions you add
one at a time to the Actions list for a button. These macros are unique to
the specified button; they are not saved for use with other buttons. The
previous section describes how to set up this type of macro.
• Global macros, which are a sequence of actions you create independent
of button assignment. These macros are saved as a single action (a
global macro) that you can then assign to as many buttons as you need,
as part of those buttons’ action lists. See “Working with Global Macros”
on page 98 for details on defining this type of macro.
Creating Button or Background Animations
You can use actions to create animations for a button or background. For
example, you can make a button chosen from the Users page change color
and move to the top of the screen, then flash the background before Nevo
jumps to that user’s device page. To do this:
1. Create a page collection and add pages to it.
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