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From: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Modifying Button Appearance
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.003832.16307@unixg.ubc.ca>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:38:32 GMT
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In article <1991Feb1.191251.14548@terminator.cc.umich.edu> jwh@bodwin.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes:
>Without resorting to a user drawn button, is there a way to change
>the appearance of button controls that are displayed on either 
>dialog or regular windows?  For example, can you change the foreground,
>background colors, font used for the text, etc.?  
 
With OS/2 1.2 and later, you can set all of these with the WinSetPresParam
API.  See Vol 4 of the Microsoft Programmer's reference. 



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