Ms Windows style text buttons

[FlipTopBin]

I am wondering if there is an easy way to make microsoft windows style clicky text buttons or do I have to handcraft imagebuttons every time?

[kivik]

I'd think you can definitely do it, depending on exactly which Windows Version button you're thinking of. The Windows 10 buttons are flat so it's definitely doable in text button.

Just define a style with the right font, padding, border and colours, then apply it to your text button and you're done

[Imperf3kt]

As above, "Microsoft Windows" has hundreds of "button designs" that span across its entire life (Windows 1.01 looks horrible by the way)
Not to mention they were highly customisable throughout Windows xp to Windows 7

Can you give an example of which buttons you want to replicate?

Also, you could make a button base image, and layer text over top of it and combine it all into a single button. This way, you only need one image, the thing that changes is your text/code on the button. I don't recall what this method is called, unfortunately.

[xavimat]

Perfectly possible.
Use textbutton and define the text_font and the background idle and hover, selected idle and selected hover.
(Or maybe there is something that I don't understand...)

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screen buttontest():
    default test = False
    textbutton "Textbutton":
        align (.5,.5)
        text_font "comic_sans.ttf"
        idle_background Solid("#800")
        hover_background Solid("#f00")
        selected_idle_background Solid("#080")
        selected_hover_background Solid("#0f0")
        action ToggleScreenVariable("test", True, False)

Change the Solids with your images, or better, Frames, so your images can be scaled