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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
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Subject: Re: How to visually "disable" a button?
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Date: 6 May 91 21:32:13 GMT
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In article <1991May6.190728.4759@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Mittman) writes:
>There is font named "Chicago Hollow" which is a grey version of
>Chicago. You can find it in the Sumex archives.
>
True.  One thing that the "icon" technique won't handle is large
buttons, since an icon can only be so big.  For really large, non-transparent
buttons, the only approach that works is the "image" approach.

-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com