What Decides The look Of Buttons

hi...am having a hard time customising the look of the buttons.Just tell me if its possible to have custom Mouse over and pressed button images.The dual image works only on mouse over but not for pressed state.And put some light on toolbar styles.Can we create our own?? So office 2003 is a predefined style and standard uses the current visual style buttons?

But am unable to figure what decides the button pressed state(when using standard toolbar style).....atleast its not using the standard buttons of the visual style.....i have checked....am into designing so i edited all the button states of the visual style to my liking but dopus isnt using them.

any help wud be appreciated
thanks

What do you want to do exactly? I'm not sure if you're talking about changing the images or the border/colour/highlight styles of the buttons (or both?).

ya i got it.....but the hard way bu changing the buttons of the theme.

but still i wud like to know a simpler method of having a custom pressed button state...u know everyone can not edit themes.

to be specific just tell me the image part....leave the highlights

I'm still now sure what you want. The image as in the icon or the look of the button (the "visual style")?

leave the visual style dude....just tell me why doesnt the dual image work for pressed state....it works for mouse over though which i think is not as important than the pressed state

Got ya!

The dual icon is only for mouseovers. I don't think there is a way to specify an icon that's used for the pushed-in state.

I think there was a reason for the dual image back in Opus 6 but it's been replaced, pretty much, by the new highlight options. I might be wrong there as I can't remember Opus 6 very well. :slight_smile: Anyway, I agree that the dual image stuff isn't very useful anymore (at least, I don't ever use it), but that's how it works (at least right now).

Opus 6, had a toolbar button gray scale highlighting effect, which required that each button store both a gray scale and a color version of the same icon. So if you created your own custom icons, and wanted to use that highlighting effect, you needed to create two versions of it. Opus 8 added a button highlighting algorithm, which could be applied to any color icon. This largely eliminated the need for each toolbar button to store two button images. And saves a lot of time when creating custom buttons.

I believe the button editor was left unchanged, to accommodate anyone who might have come up with their own button glow effect. For instance, one could create two copies of an icon set, each tinted a different color.