>well, i heard that in VB the developer can alter the color of the commandbuttons. i understand this is possible because each VB object has some kind of a window handle or window address attached to it and vfp doesn't. i wish it was same for vfp.

(a) VB is not VFP.

(b) Add an ActiveX control for a command button that gives you this as an option - build one in VB and use it, or grab any of several dozen that can be downloaded or purchased (try ActiveX .COM and do a search on Button for a few (hundred) ideas...

(c) Don't use a VFP command button - build your own from some of VFP's native controls like Sheape in a container - as I remember, there were some examples in the Files Section here under Classes-VCX at one point.