Creating my own button on a form

[kev747]

Hi all,
I've trolled though the archives to find an answer for this, but gave up after two days. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot.

I have a small bitmap on my form that I want to act like a button. In other words, when I depress the mouse button, it will look sunken, and when the mouse button is released, it look raised. I know that the sunken look is linked to the OnMouseDown event, but I can't figure out the code to acheive this look.

Many thanks,

Kev.

 

[SteveR77]

Kev,

The quick and dirty way I would tell you to do this is to have your two button images one for the raised button and one for the sunken.

Next create a transparent button an lay the button images and the transparent button on top of each other. The sunken image should be set to so its visible property is false.

On the Click event of the transparent button which will toggle the visible properties of the sunken and raised images and do whatever actions you wish the click of the button to do.

Hope this helps you.

Steve

 

[kev747]

Steve,
Yeah, I considered doing it that way, but I thought there must be a better, less 'bulky' way than this.

Thanks anyway,

Kev.