Button text on icon image

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Klaus, Dave and others :-)

For cross-platform GUI dedicated to seniors I created many times  
custom transparent buttons with 3 icons: normal, armed and hilited,  
and a field that overlaps the button to display text (with a big font).
I grouped the button and set proper handlers in the group script to  
trap the mouse events.
In addition, some automatic font adjustments using profiles made the  
cross-platform job.
Requires some work but works perfectly...

Just my two cents.

PS. As for wanting a "standard" button with an icon and text in the  
middle overlapping the icon, I never saw any button of this kind in  
any app following the guide lines on any platform ;-)
But may be I don't understand correctly. re ;-)

Best regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.

Le 23 mai 05 à 21:57, Klaus Major a écrit :

> Hi Dave,
>
>
>> ...
>> I had a similar problem with your script as Klaus.
>> In my case, the icon's image size and the button size are the same.
>> This is what I've found so far...
>>
>> On Windows (XP), if you keep the difference between the topMargin  
>> and the bottomMargin the same as the textSize, the icon will  
>> appear properly. And the value of the bottomMargin can be used to  
>> position the text. So for example, with a button sized 100 x 30,  
>> and a textSize of 14, setting margins to 0,20,0,6 is about right.  
>> On the same button, but with a textSize set at 12, margins of  
>> 0,19,0,7 work well. The font used and the textHeight don't seem to  
>> matter.
>> But on OS X, it seems the difference between the topMargin and  
>> bottomMargin has to be 2 pixels more than the textSize (but I  
>> think this difference may vary for different textSizes). For  
>> example, with the same button and icon (100 x 30), with the  
>> textSize at 14, margins of 0,22,0,6 works. With a textSize of 12,  
>> margins of 0,20,0,6 work.
>>
>
> thanks for the hints, will surely try this out!

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