Colored Buttons

[iCAB]

Hi Erel

I am tried to create buttons programmatically and I wondering if you can guide me to achieve the followings.
By default, when a button is created, buttons look nice with round angles and gradient ( I am not sure if I am using the proper terminology ). Basically not made it out of one color ( more like Grey mixed with whitish glow ).

If I assign a back color to the button, it looks like a flat and rectangular square.
In order for me to work around the issue I used the following code

Dim bkColor As ColorDrawable

bkColor.Initialize(Colors.RGB( strBackColorList(0), strBackColorList(1), strBackColorList(2)), 10dip)
cdChecked.Initialize(Colors.RGB( strForeColorList(0), strForeColorList(1), strForeColorList(2)), 10dip)

sld.Initialize

sld.AddState(sld.State_Pressed, cdChecked)
sld.AddCatchAllState(bkColor)

btnButton.Background = sld


This seems to solve the appearance problem, whoever I do end up with a one solid color button ( rounded nicely ).
Is there a way I can achieve that glow/gradient mix.

Please advise

By the way, what a fantastic job you have done on this.

Thank You

 

[klaus]

Have a look at this thread.

Best regards.

 

[iCAB]

This might be all what I am looking for.
I'll give it a try.

Thanks a lot