One more thing...
The picture of the button is user defined.
To do the way that you suggest, the user picture must have the gradient background.
What I'm trying to do is something like a skin to apply in a custom control that I'm created. This control can have a user defined number of buttons with any desired picture.
Next time I create a thread I'll try to better explain what I need... :)
Emerson Santon Reed
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