Enhancing a small form

[John Sh]

Over the years I have received much needed help from many on this forum, so now it is my turn.
This might be an old trick but I put it here anyway.
To turn an ordinary form into something a bit more professional looking, I have simply placed a command button over the entire form.
Set the button to not enabled and position it at the back.
You can then format the button as you wish.
Before...

and after

Unfortunately you can only embed a b/w image on a button.
John

 

[tvanstiphout]

b/w only?

 

[John Sh]

b/w only?

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How?
According to all I have read, the only way to have a coloured image on a button is to use a "Shared" image, not embedded.
I have tried jpg and bmp with the same result.
If you use this on a form with a number of controls, the flicker when mousing over is unacceptable.
John

 

[The_Doc_Man]

There is no reason you cannot stack something on top of something else and have it sometimes visible, sometimes not. And if it is something that has a background fill, you can adjust the transparency of that fill.

 

[tvanstiphout]

How?

The old-fashioned way. I saved a color bitmap at (in this case) 48 x 49 pixels. Then dropped a button on a form, and clicked on the ... button of its Picture property and selected it.

 

[John Sh]

Thank you both.
I'll play with it although I did try a bitmap and still got b/w.
It seems there is also a way to do this with a png but it's a bit complicated according to GAIgle.
John