I made up some XP style button images to use as a replacement for the command buttons on OS other than winXP (or for people who dont want to use the XP Manifest).
Or you can some code like attached here.
It's code for an XP Button. It can take many styles...and loads of customisation too. I am still working on some image code so it's not 100% complete yet.
I got the code from planet source code and have modified it considerably...can't remember the link though
No no I cheated a little on this one. However, I could write one from scratch if I wanted, but it's more fun moulding someones code into a better version of your own up to a point where the code doesn't resemble anything that the original author has, complete rewrite essentially. The thread is posted in another thread about XP buttons...hang on...
Look at the planet source code link. Download the code and look at it.
I have stripped out loads of code, well over 4/5 ths of it, and am improving the rest of it as I go along.
Added many more properties now and cleaned up a lot more code.
It doesn't do all the other button styles that the original code does...but it's much better code for just an XP button. It still requires a lot of work, but it's fully functional so why not use it. I need to add the DisabledPicture property sicne when the button rendered the icon for disabled mode it looks pants, so I have to replace this with a picture or figure out some better runtime code to convert the image to be disabled.
I created one from scratch that supports the 3 main XP color themes, XP Blue, XP Silver, and XP Olive, also supports icons/images.
I made it along time ago when I was still pretty new to VB but it's all owner-drawn using code.
The mouse-over is handled with a timer, I still need to update it so it uses subclassing for mouse hovering, but if you want it let me know and I'll attach it here.
Making the color scheme dynamic so the user can set it to any colors is easier than hard coding 3 different styles...plus it adds more functionality to your app.
Nice coding though. good work.
Take a peek at the code I posted, maybe you could ad some of the functionality from the code into your app.
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