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Understanding states

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Understanding states

In previous movies, we've looked at how you can apply formatting to objects on your layout. In this movie, I'm going to show you how the objects in your layout can have different states and how you can apply different formatting to each individual state. In Layout Mode, you can apply specific attributes to different objects on screen. Each of the objects has different states as you can see by selecting the company logo, you navigate over to your Inspector in your Appearance tab. If you look on the top of the inspector, you'll see these little drop-downs here. What these drop-downs are tells me what's selected, first of all, and if it has different properties - in this case the container only has one property. But down here below, is something that's called a list of states. So for example, a field can have a Normal state, a Hover state, a Pressed and an In Focus state. Let's take a look at what those are by actually applying different formating to each state. So first of all Normal…

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