Revision History: (Alpha and Beta Release notes not in History)

  • 1.3.0:
  • New
  • Added Picture Alignment (Thanks Edwin Vermeer)
  • Added Elliptical and Box Gradients
  • Added Caption and Picture Alignment Cushions (Almost like margins)
  • Added BackGround/Control Autosizing (Picture Modes)
  • Added HSL Gradient Blending (Thanks Ulli & Edwin Vermeer)
  • Added Gradient Repetitions (Thanks Edwin Vermeer)
  • Added Hover options which allow Full Hover Effects / Border Only Hover / All Hover Effects except Border
  • Added Mouse Pointer/Icon handling for Disabled, Down, and Hover states.
  • Fixed
  • Bug in Enabled Property (Design Mode, Control would appear enabled even though control was disabled after a form with control on it was closed then re-opened, Bug has present since Release 1.0.0) (Thanks for reporting problem, Edwin Vermeer)
  • Bug in scaling that would cause the button to crash when placed on a parent that did not have ScaleMode available (PictureBox on an MDI form, etc...). Now if Parent.ScaleMode is not available button will scale co-ordinates to Twips (Thanks for reporting problem, costamar)
  • Bug in ToolTips that would cause button to crash when used in environments without the extender object (Access VBA, etc...) (Thanks for reporting problem, Edwin Vermeer)
  • Improved
  • Caption Alignment has been improved to allow for positioning in any of 9 different positions [Changed existing enumeration which will cause some problems when upgrading] (Left Top / Left Middle / Left Bottom / Center Top Center Middle / Center Bottom / Right Top / Right Middle / Right Bottom)
  • Enabled/Disabled coding to allow more control over the Disabled state of the control. Now prevents event processing instead of disabling the user control.
  • ToolTips to allow using ToolTips in environments that don't support the Extender.
  • 1.2.1:
  • Fixed
  • ToolTips are finally fixed and working. (I thought this important enough for another release just for this one issue)
  • 1.2.0:
  • New
  • Added Picture and Graphical Picture modes
  • Added Bevel Appearance Type
  • Added Bevel Width and Intensity properties (for customizing the bevel border)
  • Added UseClassicBorders property (to allow switching between blending and classic borders)
  • Added Option Button Compatibility and changed the structure of the State Button compatibility some
  • Fixed
  • Fixed a minor issue with the ValueChanged event (event would not fire if changed via code)
  • Rewrote description text for properties / events / methods to be completely accurate
  • Improved
  • Borders have been revamped to allow blending with the gradient/picture on the button
  • 1.1.1:
  • Fixed
  • Bug that would not re-process the caption for display if the caption was changed in code at run time, unless a refresh was done. (Bug introduced in Release 1.1.0)
  • 1.1.0:
  • New
  • 5 Caption Styles
  • State Button Capability (sort of like a checkbox)
  • Fixed
  • Bug in caption wrapping that would lose a character if a single "word" was longer than the caption width.
  • Improved
  • Slight speed increase from de-coupling the caption wrapping and drawing.
  • 1.0.0: Initial Release
  • Features (Over and beyond the standard command button)
  • Hover Effects
  • Gradient Backgrounds
  • Multiple Font/Color Support
  • 3 Border Styles
  • Alignable Captions (Left / Center / Right)
  • Mouse Enter/Exit Events