>>>>Is there a way to make the button control have a different color for the background? All buttons seem to be gray in the background, regardless of altering the 'background' property on the button.
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>>>>Mark
>>>>mark@remarkable-systems.com
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>>>This is general Window setting. The workaround is to replace buttons with containers (SpecialEffect=0/1).
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>>Ed,
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>>I tried your idea. I made a container and placed a text label within it; then I changed the container's backcolor and made the label transparent; also made the container raised (specialeffect). When I was done -- it looked like a button! Great! Only problems are: 1) It doesn't do the indenting motion when clicked (like normal buttons do) and 2) if I clicked any where on the text label, the container's click event doesn't fire, the label's does.
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>>Any more ideas or am I doing something wrong?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Mark
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>Nothing wrong, but nothing is simple :). If you really want to proceed this way, you should do more:
>1. Reset Container.SpecialEffect property to 1 (Sunken) in MouseDown events of both label and container.
>2. Move label a little bit in MouseDown event of both label and container and restore Label.Top in MouseUp events to make click appearance nicer.


Ed,

Great idea -- I'll give that a try.

Thanks for all your help,

Mark