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[CodenStuff]

Hello,

As requested here is a quick tutorial on how to add custom buttons to your form for close/minimize etc. You can do this in lots of different ways but the way I do it is like this...

First thing you need to do is get some button images which you can find in hungryhounds kennel, online or make your own. You need 2 images which will be used as follows:

Image 1 - Primary Image
Image 2 - Used for when your mouse hovers over the picturebox

Once youve got your images you need to add them to your projects resources:

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Then add a picturebox control to your form for each button you want to create, I used 2 for this tutorial.

Set each pictureboxes image to your primary button image:

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Now its time for the code so in each "Picturebox_MouseEnter" event add this code:

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PictureBox1.Image = My.Resources.Image2

And in each "Picturebox_MouseLeave" event add this code:

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PictureBox1.Image = My.Resources.Image1

Inside each "Picturebox_Click" event add the code you want to execute such as closing the form or minimize the form.

Dont forget to change "My.Resources.Image1 and My.Resources.Image2" to the name of your images in resources.

Thats it your finished cooll;

[Toby64800]

how to get a picture into the recorses

[CodenStuff]

Hello,

Using the top menu bar click "Project" > "Your project properties" > then click the "Resources" tab then "Add resource" button.

Thank you.