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General

Does Button Painter come with a help file?





When I deploy my database to other computers on the network, the painted buttons don't work. Why?





Usage

How do I create all the different button color schemes that I see in the demo?





My painted buttons are all white and only change color when the mouse passes over them.





The caption on my painted button doesn't wrap and text is cut off. How can I fix this?





Errors

I'm getting an "Error 13 Type Mismatch" error and the line "bp_PaintButtons Me, BP_STYLE_SYSCOLOR_BLEND" is highlighted.

Answers

1. Does Button Painter come with a help file?
   
   All of the help information is in the readme.txt file that comes with Button Painter. In it, you'll find installation instructions, usage tips and more.
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2. When I deploy my database to other computers on the network, the painted buttons don't work. Why?
   
   Button Painter needs to be installed on each computer that your Button Painter-enhanced application runs on.
   
   Once you have installed Button Painter on each end-user computer, you can simply include the Button Painter library (bp2000.mde for Access 2000, bp2002.mde for Access 2002, etc...) in the same folder as your application database. Access will know to find it there.
   
   As an alternative to all of this, you can upgrade to the unlimited, royalty-free distribution license. With this version, you incorporate the Button Painter objects directly into your application database, no reference to the Button Painter library is needed, and no additional installation has to occur on the end-user's computer.
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3. How do I create all the different button color schemes that I see in the demo?
   
   On the Button Painter Form (see Step 5 in the installation instructions), you can select one of 3 button style options. For custom button colors, see the example forms "frmBPDemoSomeExampleButtons" and "frmBPDemoSelectColors" in the demo.
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4. My painted buttons are all white and only change color when the mouse passes over them.
   
   If you have pop-up forms, then you should move the call to Button Painter
   

   bp_PaintButtons Me, BP_STYLE_OUTLOOK_2003  '* Inserted by Button Painter
   

   from the OnActivate event procedure to the OnOpen or OnCurrent event procedure. This will eliminate the problem with the white buttons.
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5. The caption on my painted button doesn't wrap and text is cut off. How can I fix this?
   
   You can make a manual adjustment to get the text to wrap on painted buttons. First, include a new-line character (Shift-Enter) in your button caption where you want a line break to occur. Next use Button Painter to color the button. Finally, in design mode select the newly created label control on your button and increase the height so that all the text shows.
   
   We’ll be working on a fix for this issue in the next version of Button Painter.
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6. I'm getting an "Error 13 Type Mismatch" error and the line "bp_PaintButtons Me, BP_STYLE_SYSCOLOR_BLEND" is highlighted.
   
   Please make sure you have the latest version of Button Painter. You can download it here: Button Painter Homepage. Also, you may have a version, or service pack release of MS Access that has a bug that causes this problem. If you are using Access 2002, please make sure you have installed at least the SP-2 release. Get updates for MS Office products here: http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx
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