How to make button change colour when clicked?

[michael]

Way back in the long ago, somebody (probably Gary) came up with a technique to make a button flash and/or change colour when it was clicked - as it used to do in Panorama 6.0.

Can somebody please guide me to that post?

[gaseous1]

Courtesy of Gary:

Buttons: Simulating the activated state and/or procedurally "clicking the button"

Now from the “let’s see if can be done” department. I came up with a brute force work-around for the escape key not highlighting the Cancel button when closing the dialog window. My approach has the Cancel button named cancelButton and the OK button named okButton so that I can use the changeobject statement to do the highlighting. The actual highlight is accomplished by turning the default option temporarily on for the Cancel button and off for the OK button and then both back again. The mecha…

[gary]

Also, my Custom Button Generator file in the Panorama Database Exchange produces buttons that flash when clicked.