OK, got it. Thanks for both replies. Yes it was on a Mac, but the app is 
cross-platform, so I'll look again when I test the PC version.

It is an anomaly tho, IMO. Not significant and not that hard to work around, 
but still an anomaly.

Graham

Sent from my iPad

> On 18 Jul 2014, at 16:05, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Graham.
> 
> 
> Pull a button from the tool palette. Open the inspector. Change it from "Push 
> Button" to "Rounded Rectangle".
> 
> 
> The effect is what you saw? Change it back to "Push Button". It reverts.
> 
> 
> If you change the size of a standard push button, at least on Mac as Phil 
> pointed out, it will change and you cannot just change it back by restoring 
> styles. You have to reconstitute exactly for the engine to make it a virgin 
> push button again. I upset this now and then, and find it easier to just make 
> a new button, copying scripts if need be.
> 
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 6:17 am
> Subject: Button anomaly?
> 
> 
> I have a stack showing a lot of buttons. These are of type 'standard' and 
> they 
> have rounded corners and a kind of graduated grey fill, without my setting 
> any 
> special properties for them individually. However I have a button in the same 
> stack with nominally the same properties that doesn't have rounded corners. 
> If I 
> change its style to 'roundRect' I lose the grey fill.
> 
> Of course I can just start again, creating a new button from scratch and 
> transferring the script of the original button - but can anyone say how this 
> came about? I can't see any special settings of any properties of any of the 
> buttons in the stack.
> 
> TIA 
> 
> Graham
> 
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