It's been nearly forever that I've been getting around to using an ActiveX button to replace VFP's buttons. Now I'd like to get it over with.

Anybody care to promote their favorites?

My main motivations are:
1. Placing pictures anywhere w/respect to text
2. Animating (like a "Print" that shows gears turning while a query is running)
3. Clever masking, like in the latest incarnation from Sheridan. I can tell it to use the picture as its own mask, and to make it transparent anywhere a certain color appears. Nice!
4. Ability to choose Windows system colors instead of hardcoded colors. (this is in Sheridan's latest, Nice!)

I downloaded the latest incarnation from Sheridan, but it has an odd fluke. I can center text, and put a picture left of text, but it does not center the combination, so the button looks funky.

I also found, and am wondering if anyone feels the same, that