I discovered you can drag and drop a dll into the vs workspace and then, if it contains any, view the individual bitmaps inside of it. There are a few that are simply one long picture that represent a different 'state' of that picture; example
when you arent hovered over the logout button in xp, it's one shade, when you hover over it, it changes shades and when you press it, it turns yet another shade.
all three of those elements are actually one entire picture but xp apparently knows to look at a certain coordinate for different events.
What I would like to find out is how to do this? how do you tell your app to use it and when the events fire, how do you call the coordinates?