## Generate a Button

This demonstrates how one can use the GIF_TEXT graphics text message to create buttons with text in them.
Enter the message:
Hints: Use `$t` to generate the time, and `$d` to generate the date

Select an alphabyte font |  | and a button style (recommended height/width and x_frame/y_frame if different then default)

Message width= , and height= (in pixels)

Frame size in pixels (modify this to center text within the button):
left/right sides =, and top/bottom =
Suppress Transparency (some button/font combinations require this).

Note that the above height, width and frame values are recommended, but not essential. You may find that other values look better.

The following buttons are shipped with the full-pack version of GIF_TEXT. Note that not all of them are available in the above list of buttons.

### Acknowledgements

This utilty would not have been possible without RXGD100.DLL ".GIF" library; a port of the GD library by Andy Wysocki.

...and, it would have been useless without the various and sundry alphabyte fonts and backgrounds, which were obtained from:

Rosie's Alphabytes
  http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3055/alphabet.html (logo)
E-Mom's Rainbow Graphic Designs:
  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6404/rainbow.html (logo)
Andy's Art Attack:
  http://www.andyart.com (logo)
You might also want to check out ...
  - over 100 fonts/alphabytes at Daniel Guildkrans site
  - links to many alphabytes at http://www.ist.net/clipart/uwa/iconsfnt.html and at http://www.mangus.com/alphabet.html
  - the "food font" at http://www.planettell.com/planett/FF/,
  - some 3D alphabets at http://www.dewa.com/spell/,
  - a zillion "digit collections" (useful if you are interested in using GIF_TEXT as a clock) at http://www.digitmania.holowww.com
Some sources for buttons include:
  http://www.andyart.com, http://www.interwebb.com/users/cloe/, and http://hp5.econ.cbs.dk/~gemal/psychedupgraphics/index.html