How to change the button's colors (Colors Tab)

Click over the image below in order to be taken to every available setting explanation:

The items whose color can be set are the following:

	Item name	Description

	Normal state (Up)	Background color settings of the button surface in Normal state.
	Normal state with special effects	Background color settings of the internal part of the button surface when a special effect has been applied. If this color should be left undefined, the "Normal state" settings would be kept. These colors can be swapped using the Swap special effects colors option.
	Mouse over state	Background color settings of the button surface when the mouse pointer is over the button area. If this color should be left undefined, the "Normal state" settings would be kept.
	Pressed state (Down)	Background color settings of the button surface in Pressed state. If this color should be left undefined, the "Normal state" settings would be kept.
	Disabled state	Background color settings of the button surface in Disabled state. If this color should be left undefined, the "Normal state" settings would be kept.
	Background highlight	The color used to highlight the raising and sunken effect on a button. If this color should be left undefined, it would be automatically calculated using the current surface color of the button.
	Background shadow	The color used to shadow the raising and sunken effect on a button and to render the shadow under the button when a Shadow effect is applied. If this color should be left undefined, it would be automatically calculated using the current surface color of the button.
	Container background	The container background color, i.e. the color surrounding the button area: this setting will determine the color applied to the picture corners when the button pictures will be exported. Changing this color will cause a color change of the Button Preview pane on the application Main screen.
	Swap special effects colors	When a special effect has been selected (see Surface tab), swaps the colors set for the external and internal portions of the button's surface. Setting this option on the button above will create the following button: as you can see the colors have been swapped.

After having chosen the item of interest, you can change the following settings

Item name

Description

Selected item color (or Selected item primary color)

Primary color associated to the selected item

Selected item secondary color

Secondary color used when the selected gradient 3D rendering is Bicolor

"Change..." button

This button will open the color choice dialog box

"Undefine" button

This button will set the color associated to the selected item to an "undefined" state: when a color is set to "undefined", the selected item will use the Normal state settings or will be calculated automatically.

The "undefined" state is represented with the symbol in place of the color.

Best color match

Causes the button to adopt a gradient algorithm that will maintain the chosen color characteristics; in the samples below the chosen color is always Orange

Best 3D rendering

Causes the button to adopt a gradient algorithm that will enhance the 3D look of the button surface

Linear color match

Uses another coloring algorithm.

Hyper 3D rendering

Uses an extended 3D gradient algorithm.

Bicolor

Uses a gradient algorithm that makes use of two colors. In the the sample below the colors are Orange and Blue.

Gradient type

Chooses the type of gradient 3D rendering. Examples:

Gradient classic
Gradient linear

Gradient factor

Chooses the factor applied to the gradient 3D rendering algorithm. Examples:

Gradient factor set to 2
Gradient factor set to 4
Gradient factor set to 6

Notes

This section doesn't cover the coloring of texts visible over the button because text-related procedures are described inside the Texts Tab section.

This section doesn't cover the coloring of the following surfaces:

Vista's Aero style

Office 2003 style

Office 2007 style