HotButton Active
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The HotButton control is designed for developers who want an alternative to the standard Windows button you get with Visual Basic, .NET, and C++, or who need a feature-packed button control to use on Internet Explorer webpages. The HotButton offers everything that the standard button offers plus a whole lot more - including completely customizable dropdown Menus.  Here are just a few of the things you can do with the HotButton:

• Create buttons that look similar to those found in Microsoft® Visual Studio®.NET or Outlook user interface, and display .GIF, .JPG, .BMP and .ICO graphics.
• Create "Hot" buttons in your own toolbars, or any button on a form. Hot buttons are buttons which "pop up" when the mouse rolls over them. Won't steal the input focus when clicked (unless desired).
• The HotButton can be set to not accept focus so that it can't "steal" the focus from other windows (great for toolbars).
• Works with all language fonts.
• Create buttons with customized dropdown menus.
• Create 3D or flat buttons to give your applications a simpler, cleaner interface.
• Decide if the border or focus rectangle is shown.
• Button depth (the thickness of the 3D edge), border thickness and color.
• Set the BackColor, TextColor, BorderColor, HighlightColor, and ShadowColor for every state of the button to give your user interface a multi-media look.
• You have complete control over each display property in each button state: static, hot (active), down and disabled. You can also just set one picture and the control will handle the rest automatically. The HotButton will give you complete control of where to place the picture in relation to the text and how much spacing to use.
• Dynamically change every property (including pictures and color) at run-time to give your application a multimedia effect.
• Use resource Bitmaps, Icons, GIFs and JPGs compiled into your C++ programs.
• Use the HotButton in webpages. There are properties that allow setting of image and font with text (as well as the Automation interfaces), allowing you to use the HotButton on webpages (a good ActiveX button control for webpages has been badly needed for a long time). This will really impress your boss.
• Has events for: Click, MouseEnter, MouseLeave, GotFocus and LostFocus.

By default, the HotButton behaves exactly like the standard button. But you can set just about any color of any part in any state of the button via properties. With the HotButton, you get to "have it your way", and design very cool user interfaces, even in webpages.

Dropdown Menus
The HotButton does menus! Easily create menu buttons in any style, or use the standard Windows popup menu. Bind to the OnMenuClick event which fires with the ID you assign using the menu editor property page.

Unlimited Button Style Combinations give you complete control

XP style Create Windows XP® style buttons.  Active style Create "Hot" buttons in your own toolbars, or any button on a form. Hot buttons are buttons which "pop up" when the mouse rolls over them.  Flat style Not every application is designed to look 3D, so why use a 3D button? Use this style to give your applications a simpler, cleaner interface   Border Style and Focus   Unlike the standard button, you can decide if the border or focus rectangle is shown Complete Color Control Unlike the standard button, you can set the BackColor, ForeColor, BorderColor, HighlightColor, ShadowColor and Depth to give your user interface an exceptional look. trap the OnGotFocus and OnMouseEnter events to change any property dynamically for cool multimedia effects. Better Picture Support You can set a different picture for each state of the button - up, down, hot and disabled. You can also just set one picture and the control will handle the rest automatically. The HotButton will give you complete control of where to place the picture in relation to the text and how much spacing to use. You can set the text style to be multi-line.  You can use any combination of horizontal and vertical justification. Windows 3.x style Do you like rounded buttons?  You can have the old Windows 3.x style buttons on your forms.

Completely Customizable Dropdown Menus

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