Caption vs. Text Object

[Option_Explicit]

If you were making buttons, and using the Caption to put text on them, or the same buttons, with a text object over them, what is the difference/Pro's Con's to this?
What should the caption function be used for?

[Corey]

It's easier if you have *less* objects to achieve the same functionality. If you aren't applying your text to your button images pre-AMS, i.e. in Photoshop or whatever then certainly using captions is a better option than adding a separate text object to each button object.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[yosik]

I would like to point out another aspect of the question.
Scenario: you have a on/off button. If you are using a text object and not a caption, you can change the content of the text with a variable. one click shows play, the other shows pause, for example. This you can't do with caption.

Yossi

[Derek]

This you can't do with caption

Hi - this is not true!

You can use:
%ObjectText% = ImageObject[Image1].GetText
<font color=blue>IF</font color=blue> (%ObjectText% = PLAY)
ImageObject[Image1].SetText ("PAUSE")
<font color=blue>ELSE</font color=blue>
ImageObject[Image1].SetText ("PLAY")
<font color=blue>END IF</font color=blue>

... and of course other Actions to improve on this. This works the same as a Text Object in your scenario.

[yosik]

ooops, sorry...
Sheepishly abashing myself in front of the greatness of mighty AMS....

[kpsmith]

Cool...

Never would have thought to try that....