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  These files are provided as a demo of ButtonToolTM. There is included
  a demo copy of the design-mode custom control. You will be able to use
  it in design or exe mode. This lets you see how the control actually
  works. You may copy and distribute this demo freely as long as you
  include all files in an unaltered state.
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  Everything in this demo is a ButtonTool button. All fo the 3-D panels,
  the labels the display windows, everything!
  Following are a few hints on using the ButtonTool demo:

  SETTING COLOR PROPERTIES
  All of ButtonTool's color properties are set using Visual Basic's
  built in Color Palette. See VB's online help for information on
  how to use the Color Palette.

  3-D EFFECTS
  ButtonTool's 3-D effect is normally used to give a button a "raised"
  appearance. In some of the following cases you might want to reverse
  the 3D colors to give the appearance that the button is depressed.
  Using this technique in addition to some of the following you can
  easily generate "raised" or "depressed" buttons or panels.(see below)

  BUTTONTOOL AS AN ENHANCED PICTURE CONTROL:
      You can use ButtonTool to display bitmaps, icons and metafiles on
      it's surface, as it's symbol. You can specify how much of the surface
      these images cover leaving room for a caption. In effect you now
      have a picture control that provides all of the ButtonTool properties
      such as 3-D Effects, Borders and Shadows.

  BUTTONTOOL AS A PARENT OR "CONTAINER" OF OTHER CONTROLS:
      You can use ButtonTool as a container of other controls including
      other ButtonTool buttons. You can even use ButtonTool as mentioned
      above, as a Picture Control that contains other controls.

  BUTTONTOOL AS AN ENHANCED LABEL CONTROL:
      You can use ButtonTool as a label to generate 3-D, raised, and
      depressed, labels. Labels with or without borders and shadows.

      NOTE:   In most of the uses just mentioned it is necessary to set
              the ButtonDown property to 0 - "No Effect" to keep the
              surface of a parent ButtonTool button from being repainted
              if the user were to "click" on it's exposed surface area.
              It is usually also nescessary to set the ShowFocus
              propertu to FALSE.

     WARNING: Forms and code generated with this version of ButtonTool
              will NOT work with the commercial version. Anything you
              create with this version will have to be rebuilt from
              scratch.

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  We feel that there is a great deal of flexibility built into ButtonTool.
  You may find different and innovative ways of using it. If you do we
  would like to hear from you. If you have suggestions or complaints we
  still would like to hear from you. We are committed to making ButtonTool
  the best tool of it's type. We cannot do it without your feedback.

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  OTHER PRODUCTS FROM OUTRIDER SYSTEMS, INC.
  Other products include EditTool, which is an enhanced edit control
  that provides for formatted input. With EditTool you can format input
  on a character by character basis. You can specify protected positions,
  making it very easy to build, for example, PHONE, DATE, CURRENCY and SSN
  type fields. The "protected" characters such as the dashes(   -  -    )
  in a SSN field are not stored in the text string making it simple to
  convert from the VB string representation to a numeric value. An
  additional feature of EditTool is an optional "Spinner" used to increment
  or decrement numbers in an EditTool field. EditTool also supports all of
  the border, 3-D and shadow properties found in ButtonTool.
  With ButtonTool you can add a professional look and feel to your
  applications.
  Pricing is $49.95 plus $4 S&H or both for $89.95 plus S&H.
  The file "ORDERFRM.TXT" is provided for your convienence.

  OUTRIDER SYSTEMS, INC.
  PO Box 271669
  Houston, TX 77277-1669
  Voice: (713)521-0486   Fax: (713)523-0386     Orders: (800) 845-0386

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