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Thanks for this NetMaestro. I've been wanting custom buttons for absolutely years. Square ones get very boring after a while (grin). Now I am going to try all sorts of stuff (pant, pant).

PB wrote: Regardless, I wonder if there's any way to "convert" old libs to be current,
without the source? Has anyone ever tried to reverse-engineer them, or
anything like that? There must be something that can be done for truly
abandoned libs.

There actually is a way. Most of these libs contain a set of functions (pooh!) and what you could do is fire up your old compiler, create a 'wrapper' in regular purebasic, then turn the result into a DLL.

That DLL will then work with any later version of PureBasic.

Okay, sounds great, but I admit I never tried this myself

But how, without the source?

For what blueznl described, you wouldn't need the source.

I've done it before. You load the old compiler with the old compiled lib and write a dll that calls the lib's functions and returns to the calling program what the lib gives to it. It's a sound concept and usually works. It's a wrapper of sorts.

Now the hard part is learning how to make decent looking graphics to use for custom buttons

If you create a custom button that opens another window with a custom button, when the second window closes the original custom button goes wacky. Any ideas?

Fixed. See updated topic in T&T forum.

Hi, thanks for your lib but i can't use it with purebasic 4.20, i have a POLINK error : unresolved external symbol 'PB_Delay'.

thanks it work and sorry