Jay,

I think your captions are padded, but the problem is that the space, in Arial as in many non proportional fonts, is smaller than the chars, try for example

* Add Appointment, Next Open and Cancel buttons
@ 7,2 GET cmd_Next_Open ;
	FONT "Arial", 9 ;
	STYLE "B" ;
	FUNCTION "*NH  'Add Appointment' ;'   Next Open     ';'     Cancel      '" ;
	SIZE but_height, 12 ;
	COLOR ,,,,,,,,&Control_Color,&Disabl_Color ;
	VALID v_cmd_Next_Open()

You'll see almost the same size of the buttons compared with yours (they do not have the same size among them)

>I can't seem to pad any spaces around the captions of the buttons. Or at least the result doesn't display with padding. Whassup with that? Do I just need a lot more because I'm using a proportional font?
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