[AccessD] buttons created with wizard look different

Thanks for the confirmation Charlotte!

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:31 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] buttons created with wizard look different

Yes, I discovered this when copying buttons from databases built in earlier versions.  The formats are saved with the buttons.

Charlotte

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, live and learn - it is not control wizard or not control wizard... 
> it is buttons made before I up-published the database to Ac2007 
> version versus those created afterwards. Something must have changed 
> in the re-save process. Nice to know I don't need the control wizard 
> after all, I just have to remake the command buttons.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Benson [mailto:bensonforums at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:20 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: buttons created with wizard look different
>
> The buttons I create on my form with the control wizard have a more 
> gradient fill look to them (which I prefer) compared with the buttons 
> created without them. But I have combed over all the properties 
> between the two types and I cannot seem to be able to make the ones 
> that I have manually created look nice like the ones made by the wizard.
>
> I have even ctrl-clicked both and looked at all the properties which 
> are not the same in value - things like height, width, top, left, 
> hyperlink address, etc - none of which are relevant to the look of the 
> button. I would have thought things like backcolor...
>
> There is this one setting called "Picture Type" which says embedded 
> for both, but I don’t think that is it.
>
> I am going to go back and recreate all of them with the wizard - but 
> in future, I would like to know what it is about the wizard that is 
> causing different styled command buttons to be created than the ones I 
> create without.
>
> Anyone?
>
>
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