>I've been using this technique since 5.0 and haven't had any problems. In the property sheet when you press the delete key when the caption property is highlighted (in the box), the caption is removed from the button and (None) replaces it. So if you go to the base class, and do this, it should propogate down.

I know that works. The problem is we use the same subclass for picture buttons and buttons that we want text on. So we have to check at runtime to see if we really want the text removed.