>I'm moving my toolbars to hot-tracking buttons in vfp7. One of the other managers here asked why. I said, "Well, it's state-of-the-art, isn't it? Look, see how all these other apps use them?"
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>He still said, "but why? I don't see any improved functionality. It's harder to tell they're really buttons when they're flat. Looks like a waste of time."
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>I didn't have a good answer to that. Anyone else?

There is no good response.

The buttons add nothing functional.

I think MS just like playing head games with us and see if we fall for things like lemmings. To me a button should look like a button not convert itself into one just because your mouse is over it. I bet there is a group at MS that has bets on how long it will take for the majority of people to do things just because MS does it.