Fading color in glossy buttons

[fsturlese]

Hello,
when using the "glossy" style for pushbuttons, the background will fade from the chosen background color to white. If a dark color is chosen as a background, and a light color for text, the multi-line text is hard to read (see the file attached).
Is there any way to change the fading color to something different than white?
Thank you.
Federico.

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[mark.monroe]

The Glossy style forces the button to have a whitish hue like that. You can change the gradients on both sides, but it will still have a shine to it.

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[fsturlese]

Hello Mark, thank you for your reply. I was wondering if the whitish hue is Windows-dependent, and can be changed by code. If I take a look at the Apple's glossy buttons, they seem to fade differently, see below:

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The Apple button allows using white characters all over the surface, as there is no white fading.

Another question: I tried changing the two colors of the gradient, if I set the same color for both, from then on I can't set the gradient any more, as the gradient palette shows only the solid color. Is this a known issue?

Thank you.
Federico.

[mark.monroe]

Yes, if you mess around with both ends of the gradient to-much then it stops working. That is a known issue.