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If there are several states in your button, e.g., mouseoff and mouseover, they need to be
soft grouped together, so that they stay together when one state is moved or otherwise
transformed.

Button margins
In this section we refer to the „margins" as being the spaces between the button label
and the ends of the button. For stretchy buttons (those with the „Adjust button widths to
labels" option switched on) this is determined by the master button from which you
create the Navbar. By adjusting the margins on the master button, you set the margins
for the other buttons in the bar, which are based on it.

The easiest way to change the margin on the first button is as follows:

1. Open the NAVBAR DIALOG
2. Turn off the ADJUST BUTTON WIDTHS TO LABELS option, so buttons don’t stretch as
label text is changed.
3. Change the label on the master button (the first button unless you have multiple
button designs in your Navbar – see later section). Choose any dummy label text
which is the appropriate length to give you the margins you want on the master
button.
4. Turn the ADJUST BUTTON WIDTHS TO LABELS option back on again. All buttons get
the same margins you set for the master button.
5. Set the master button label text back to what it should be.

Original bar

Bar with a modified smaller margin

Bar with a modified larger margin

If your Navbar has different designs for the start/end (see below for how to achieve that),
then the start and end designs have their own margins that can be controlled separately.

Advanced - Editing a Navbar button design
However your Navbar was created, you can modify the button design it uses. For a
Navbar where all buttons are the same design, the very first button in the bar is used as
the master button from which all the other buttons are copied. Therefore by modifying the
first button design, you modify the design for the whole bar.