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Hey Guys, I need help in creating a function that uses GDI+ to create Metro style buttons, like in Windows 8 Sidebar, i have attached some example below: Earlier I used to design the buttons on photoshop but now I am thinking of doing it through code which would decrease the size of executable, also it would take time once for creating code rather than spending hours on photoshop. Here is the code I made till now, was able to draw only the button without text, as I suck on GDI+ #include <ButtonConstants.au3> #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <GDIPlus.au3> #Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form= $Form1 = GUICreate("Test", 615, 437) $Button1 = CtrlCreateButton("Button1", 48, 72, 100, 20) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) #EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ### While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Exit EndSwitch WEnd Func CtrlCreateButton($Text = "", $Left = 0, $Top = 0, $Width = 0, $Height = 0, $BGColor = 0xff00ff, $HoverColor = 0xbbbbbb, $FontSize = 10, $FontColor = 0xff456f, $FontFamily ="Arial", $WorkDir = @TempDir) _GDIPlus_Startup() ;Global $iWidth = 100, $iHeight = 100 ;dimension of the bitmap Local $iStride = 0, $pScan0 = 0, $iPixelFormat = $GDIP_PXF32ARGB ;some bitmap parameters Local $aResult = DllCall($ghGDIPDll, "uint", "GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0", "int", $Width, "int", $Height, "int", $iStride, "int", $iPixelFormat, "ptr", $pScan0, "int*", 0) Local $hBitmap = $aResult[6] ;this is the handle of the new empty bitmap Local $hContext = _GDIPlus_ImageGetGraphicsContext($hBitmap) ;create a context to the bitmap handle to do some GDI+ operations ;Global Const $iBgColor = 0xFFDE2697 ;define background color -> ARGB -> 0xFFDE2697 _GDIPlus_GraphicsClear($hContext, $BGColor) ;clear empty bitmap with new color ;$hGraphic = _GDIPlus_GraphicsCreateFromHWND($hContext) ;_GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawStringEx($hContext, $Text, _GDIPlus_FontCreate(_GDIPlus_FontFamilyCreate($FontFamily), $FontSize), _GDIPlus_RectFCreate(), _GDIPlus_StringFormatCreate(), _GDIPlus_BrushCreateSolid($FontColor)) $sFilename = $WorkDir & "\" & Chr(Random(65, 90, 1)) & Chr(Random(65, 90, 1)) & Random(1000000, 999999, 1) _GDIPlus_ImageSaveToFile($hBitmap, $sFilename) GUICtrlCreatePic($sFilename, $Left, $Top, $Width, $Height) _GDIPlus_GraphicsDispose($hContext) _GDIPlus_Shutdown() EndFunc ;==>MetroUICtrlCreateButton Please help me out guys... Thanks in advance