Buttons and Similar Controls

Aside from menus, buttons provide the most common way to initiate an action or command in an application. Button-like controls include:

Use this component:	To do this:
TButton	Present command choices on buttons with text
TBitBtn	Present command choices on buttons with text and glyphs
TSpeedButton	Create grouped toolbar buttons
TCheckBox	Present on/off options
TRadioButton	Present a set of mutually exclusive choices
TToolBar	Arrange tool buttons and other controls in rows and automatically adjust their sizes and positions
TCoolBar	Display a collection of windowed controls within movable, resizable bands (VCL only)

Action lists let you centralize responses to user commands (actions) for objects such as menus and buttons that respond to those commands. See Using action lists for details on how to use action lists with buttons, toolbars, and menus.

You can custom draw buttons individually or application wide. See Developing the user interface.