TBTK button graphics. On the background, or not?
As I began to understand the TBTK, it seemed to me that having to have the button graphic on the tab background is not the best way to do this. Surely the button graphic should be part of the button, not of the background?
The thing is, because TBTK doesn't handle transparent GIFS for button graphics, we have to put the graphics on the background and round the edges off there. We can't have curved edge buttons because GIFS and JPEGS etc always have squared off corners.
Furthermore, once you've committed your button graphic to the background image, you can't easily move it around. You have to reauthor the background image.
Please, don't misunderstand me, I'm not complaining about the TBTK. I think it's a wonderful piece of software and I certainly don't mean to diss WBK's hard work, but this is certainly an area for improvement.
Of course, If I'm doing something elementarily wrong, I'd be more than happy to take back everything I've said!
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