Easiest thing to do is use a BevelButton on one of seceral solutions.. Draw the Caption into an picture with Transparent = 1 and use that as the Icon.That way you could me any color for the text...
Or you might just want to make a plain rectangular icon filled with a light red color and just use the regular caption property for the lable Or make the Icon background a slightly darker red and draw the text into it in a yellow or (slightly) Off white -------------- Original message -------------- From: Steve Goodrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi list, > > I need some advice about how to accomplish something in REALbasic. In > our application, we have a column of buttons that navigate several > screens. I.E. each button jumps you quickly to a different window. That > window may or may not be visible at any given time and pushing the > button makes it visible and gives it focus. There are times that very > important information may be waiting on one of those screens. We need a > non-intrusive way (no pop-ups) to draw attention to the buttons without > being annoying. > > In the current version of our product, written with another development > tool, we just changed the color of the text of those buttons to red. It > was something that drew attention to the button without getting in the > way of people working and without being annoying. We need something > similar that works on both the Mac and Windows (and ultimately Linux). > > We really want to use push buttons because they look super nice on both > platforms. > > Since changing the color of text on a buttons seems to be considered a > sin just below drowning nuns, what are my options? > > Thanks, > Steve Goodrich > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > > > Search the archives of this list here: > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
