## 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: |  | Use `$t` to generate the time, and `$d` to generate the date. Use `$f(new_font_name)` to switch fonts. Use `$n` for a new line

Select an alphabyte font | a button style | and a color slide
or ... specify a font name: For example: `twoturt` | ... or, specify a file: For example: `buttons/next` The h/w (height and width) and x/y (x_frame and y_frame) are recommended values. | ... or, specify a file: For example: `slides/fadeout` |

Message size: | width= , and height= (in pixels)

Frame size in pixels (modify this to center text within the button): | left/right sides =, and top/bottom =

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

Suppress Transparency | (some button/font combinations require this).

| or |

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 RXGDUTIL.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
  - 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