I'm developing a Windows app in Visual Basic.
Radio Buttons are used in one location, however they're a bit plain looking.

Is there any little chunks of code available for purchase that can
improve their visual effect (make them look a little nicer/more
interesting).

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 03 Jan 2004 08:24 PST

Hi, patrice29-ga:

Which version of VB are you working with?

Chances are you can obtain the effects you want by setting properties
in the radio button controls or the surrounding frames, but there are
third-party controls around.

Besides color and "pattern" is there any particular visual or other
effect you are looking for?  Radio buttons exhibit mutually exclusive
settings (only one in a group can be on), and this behavior can be
imposed by your application using essentially any kind of buttons, if
that is the sort of "chunks of code" approach you would be interested
in.

regards, mathtalk-ga

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Clarification of Question by patrice29-ga on 03 Jan 2004 09:27 PST

I'm using VB 5.

I was thinking of a ball that would toggle from orange to greyish (or
dark greenish). Perhaps 'ball' isn't the right word. I just mean
roundish looking effects. Roughly the same size as a radio button
would probably be preferrable though.

You realize you could get the same effect of a radio button using an
image object, and just change the image.picture property during the
'Image_Click' event from one picture to the other. In other words
using the following code in the click event.

If image.picture = "greycircle.jpg" then
  image.picture = "orangecircle.jpg"
 Else
  image.picture = "greycircle.jpg"
End If

And then when you evaluate, instead of evaluting on true/false,
evaluate on the properties of the image.picture value.