Button Style

[eagle4life69]

How can I change the Style of a button to look like a a square box with the word Go in it not to look raised and make it not look so much like a button. Do I really need to create a Bitmap to look like what I want.

[Valuater]

you can do alot with labels used as a button

check out label "styles" and "extended styles"

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[Christian Blackburn]

you can do alot with labels used as a button

Hi Valuater,

I would like to agree, but the most obvious problem with that is with underlined accelerators like "&OK". If you make a label that reads "&OK", pressing Alt+O won't work. Also, I haven't been able to get them to behave as a tabstop either.

Cheers,

Christian

[Valuater]

might want to take a look at these buttons

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=288428

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[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Valuater,

Thanks for the suggestion, that's certainly a pretty option and would be more than satisfactory in most cases. However, I'm specifically writing a performance application and so in this instance it must be free of bloat.

Thanks,

Christian

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi eagle4life69,

You should be able to just use $BS_FLAT and or $BS_PushBox, but for some reason that doesn't work. Can somebody shed some light on this? I think it has to do with the Windows XP manifest (is it called?). How can Eagle and I disable that?

Here's some lousy code to exemplify the problem:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

$Form1 = GUICreate("About", 189, 109, 303, 219)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("&OK", 56, 32, 43, 25, BitOr($BS_FLAT, $BS_PUSHBOX) )

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $nMsg = $button1 Then
        msgbox(4096, "huh?", "I should be flat and have no border!")
    EndIf
WEnd

Notice the attached screenshot, showing how Koda thinks a button with those styles should look.

Thanks,

Christian

Edited January 25, 2007 by Christian Blackburn

[Valuater]

Hi Valuater,

I would like to agree, but the most obvious problem with that is with underlined accelerators like "&OK". If you make a label that reads "&OK", pressing Alt+O won't work....

With the above reasoning in mind, how would these two "function" differently

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

$Form1 = GUICreate("About", 189, 109, 303, 219)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("&OK", 56, 32, 43, 25) ;, BitOr($BS_FLAT, $BS_PUSHBOX) )
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("&OK", 60, 68, 43, 25)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $nMsg = $button1 Then msgbox(4096, "button", "?????",3)
   If $nMsg = $button2 Then msgbox(4096, "Label", "????",3)
   If $nMsg = -3 Then Exit
WEnd

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[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Valuater,

Using your "naming conflict" two controls with Alt+O accelerators, you will actually make it to where Alt+O won't work with the button either. Using the code I provided (not your modification) you should be able to use Alt+O and have that flat button be a tabstop.

Cheers,

Christian

[Valuater]

Hi Valuater,

I would like to agree, but the most obvious problem with that is with underlined accelerators like "&OK". If you make a label that reads "&OK", pressing Alt+O won't work. ...

OK, forget code and "naming conflict"......(other planet)

How would the above be true with buttons and not labels ??

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[Valuater]

XP Button

; guess its not needed

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Edited January 25, 2007 by Valuater

[LondonNDIB]

This is the only result for searching BS_PUSHBOX.

According to Koda, BS_PUSHBOX style makes the button have no border. But when I run the resulting code, it doesn't work.

I'm trying to use bitmaps as my buttons... they have rounded corner and already look like 3d buttons. How do I use them as buttons without having the rectangular heavy box around them???

Thanks.

LD