On May 7, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Jan M. Hollis wrote:

> By trial and error I found that I could get color into buttons by
> simply making the increment of the y-dimension of the button </= 20. 

As you experiment bear in mind Apple defines a push button as specifically 22 pixels high. Trying to make it 23+ pixels high will morph your push button into some other type of control ( like possibly a bevel button ).

Brian S.