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Configuring the buttons

Well, have a look at a MUI default button and the CoolMUI-look first:

What you have to do:

It's really simple: First go to the 'buttons' section and choose the XEN-like button container. Now, choose XHelvetiva 13 font. Now, there are two background patterns to choose: One for the normal button and one for a selected/clicked button. So, if you click on a button it will change it's background pattern or colour. In this case we use a different pattern. Use the 'softgrey_default' for the default/unselected button and the 'softgrey_light' pattern for the second button image (find both patterns in the 'button' dir). (You can also try to do this the other way round: 'softgrey_light for the normal buttons and the default version for the pressed-down button.)
Note:The display of the pattern of the buttons may vary as it isn't possible to fit a picture exactly inside a frame (because the whole MUI GUI is scalable (which is a very good thing) patterns get tiled) - still it will look fine.:)

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