Malcolm,

>Of course, anything I can do to confuse my users and insure a steady stream of support calls is good job security [evil grin]

My kinda GUI developer. *L* You should check out if hentzenwerke.com has any links to any of the User Hostile Interface sessions that went on at GLGDW.

>Actually, VFP does a great job of disabling the button borders and captions, but a crappy job (IMO) of rendering disabled images. Unfortunately, I don't have the artistic skills or budget to create a duplicate set of high quality disabled images to match my primary image collection.

Me either, if I don't like the disabled image I'll start with the original and just tweak it in paint.

>So, IMO again, using a duplicate of a button's image for a button's disabledpicture property results in a much more professional disabled button appearance than relying on VFP's default behavior.
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>Its too early to judge whether this decision is a good one, but so far I've only gotten compliments on the new look. No complaints or confusion so far.
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>Why don't you give my technique a try and see if you have a difficult time determining if a command button is disabled or not? I'm curious to hear what others (outside my user community) think of this approach.

As long as it has a caption that disables it's probably not too bad, but an image only button would be another matter.