>>>Roland,
>>>
>>>Fred told you that the button takes its colors from Windows.
>>>
>>>What you can do is put a colored shape over your button. Be sure to call the click() of the button when the shape is clicked.
>>>
>>
>>Calling the click method does not cause the button to be depressed.
>
>Erik,
>
>You're right - the appearance doesn't change at all, but the button's job gets done.
>
>Personally, I'd rather stick with Windows colors and standard behavior but some people need/want to do otherwise.

BTW, Cindy, what do you think, is it really hard to add this ability to VFP command buttons?
VB buttons don't have this problem.