Yeah, VB lets you put a 16x16 icon to the left of button text, it lets you create buttons that have the little "drop-down" arrow to the right for menus or palettes, it has properties for whether the button appears in a menu strip, whether the cursor assumes a special shape when over it... it is part of the whole "Visual Studio 2005" family, which as you might expect is a stickler for representing Windows UI.
Just to give you an idea of what can be done with a "simple" button in VBE, I've captured the fully expanded button properties list and assembled it into a single image: http://www.wjm.org/linked/buttons/vbebuttonprops.jpg (It is bigger than will fit in a browser window, so be sure to hover over the pic with your mouse button and click the little expansion icon that appears after a delay, at the lower-right.) Comments on the properties list: I prefer the way that Rev separates out the properties (instead of one long list like this), but I'd rather they used tabs instead of a drop-down menu for the various categories. Note that the very bottom of the VBE list shows a description of what the property does, which I think is better than a tooltip. Not that in the grid, clicking into the right column will show drop-down menus, color pickers, [...] icons which lead to supplemental dialogs... which is very self-documenting. For example, if I select something that binds it to a database, I'll get a little wizard to connect to my datasource, if one isn't already defined. Bill Chipp Walters wrote > Does VB allow one to add icons and change the font and font size of a > button like this? Just wondering. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
