3-D Picture Button for Visual Basic by Mark Gamber  March, 1992

   Similar to the picture button VBPICBTN.VBX, this control provides a button
to Visual Basic with 3-D shading drawn automatically depending on if the button
is pressed or not. Bitmaps and icons may be display in the button and a
separate picture may be defined for the "up" and "down" states. To use this
control, copy VBPIC3D.VBX to your Visual Basic directory and select the file
from the listbox displayed by selecting "Add file..." from the "File" menu.

   Captions may be set including the "hotkey" which has a line drawn under the
letter selected. The caption appears below the 3-D shaded section of the button
and may not be moved. The shaded portion of the button adjusts it size when the
caption font size is changed.

   Pictures in the form of bitmaps or icons may be set using the "PictUp" and
"PictDown" methods. To achive a good effect, you should move the "down" picture
down and to the right of the "up" picture when drawing the bitmaps, the amount
of movement depending on the border width of the button. If an "Up" picture is
defined but no "down" picture, the "up" picture is offset by the border width
and displayed. In this manner, only one bitmap is used and the 3-D effect still
works.

   "BorderWidth" selects the number of lines that make up 3-D shading. Larger
numbers display a thicker border, lower numbers display a thinner border. The
black button outline may not be altered.

   "Stretch" determines how to display the bitmap. If TRUE, the bitmap is sized
to fit the 3-D section of the button. Otherwise, the bitmap does not change
sizes. FALSE displays the picture as drawn with no distortion but it may cause
the bitmap to overwrite the border and caption if larger than the 3-D portion
of the control.


   This software is free for any and all to use given two conditions:

1. Credit is credit where credit is due.
2. I'm not liable. Period.

Questions, bugs and suggestions may be sent E-Mail to PCA MarkG on America
   Online. Internet mail address pcamarkg@aol.com is now available, as well.