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Sometime last year I saw some post about shaped command buttons, if I remember right there were an to a control someone had made that let you decide what shape the button would have. I'm experimenting with odd shaped form's and a oval button would fit right in there.
If anyone knows where I can get that control, or any code that would aloow me to change the apperance of a commandbutton, I would be most thankful.
Thank you
The easiest way I know of is to use the Image control (or a Picture control, but try not to) and just use a couple of pictures to represent your odd shaped button, one picture for the regular (depressed) state and another for the pressed state (or just use BitBlt on the first image to manipulate it in to looking like it was clicked). If you go this route you get the added benifit of using all of the Image control's built in methods and events.
The other route you could go is to create an ActiveX control with no control on it, just a shape that is set by the properties. From here you would have to code all the advanced graphics of the button, such as the button shadow and border, for each side of the irregular shape. You would also have to provide all of the Properties, Events, and Methods through code yourself. Obviously this method is alot more work, but it is the best method in the long run. Once you've created the ActiveX control you can reuse in all your projects without too much effort.
Hope this was helpful.
You may change the region of the hwnd to the commandbutton with some api's if you ask me.