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OK, OK, OK: you have found out that the standard buttons in OXT are ever so slightly boring, and you would like something with a bit more, um, pizzazz.

So: open a new stack in OXT:
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Import the image you want to have as the back ground of your button:
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Make sure you know what the image is called:
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Move the image where people will not be able to see it:
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Create a rectangle graphic:
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and set its name to the words you want on your button:
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Set the text size of the graphic to the size you want in your finished button:
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And resize the graphic to the way you want it:
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Now set the back ground of your button by entering code into the messageBox:
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Resize and reshape the graphic to the way you want your button to look:
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Change the text and border colour if you want to:
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Add any shadow effects if you wish:
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Group the graphic by using the menu:
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Give your group a name:
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Make sure that your group is locked:
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Write code in the messageBox to take a snapshot of the group:
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Delete the group:
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You now have an image which can be used as a button:
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You can remove the back ground image from your stack as it is no longer needed.

To add to this, another idea if you just want a UI control that looks a bit different:

That's very nice, but the point of this thread was really how to make a button that looks the same regardless of which platform a standalone hived off from the source stack is meant to run on: and that includes not getting buggered-up because chummy, the end-user does not have the 'Rocky Horror' font on his/her system.