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     	      Arcadia PowerButton - Version 3.0
              Read Me Notes - November 19, 2003
Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Arcadia Software Development Corporation
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Main Features
2. Disclaimer and Notices


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1. Main Features
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Arcadia PowerButton main features:

- Built-in Windows XP appearance style with 3 color schemes under Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP.
- Built-in dropdown menu. 
- Office 2003 appearance style. 
- Auto XP color scheme detection and assignment. 
- Separate vertical and horizontal caption and picture alignments with margin settings for pinpoint positioning. 
- Additional appearances including Flat, 3D, 3D When Mouse Over, and Cool Button (light 3D effect). 
- Advanced gradient coloring under different mouse states. 
- Bevel level setting and shades coloring. 
- Background translucency level setting. 
- Ability to assign different border styles. 
- Corners rounding. 
- Pictures embedding under different button states. 
 -Various picture effects assignment under different mouse states, including pop-up, lighter, and darker picture effects. 
- Picture stretching. 
- Highly customizable object coloring and font setting under different button states. 
- ANSI or Unicode character option for enhanced East Asian languages support. 
- Built-in sound effects with ability to embed custom sounds when the button is clicked or when the mouse moves over it. 
- Button Toggling. 
- Caption wrapping. 
- Hyperlink enabled. 
- Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP compatible. 
- Visual Basic 6.0 & Visual C++ 6.0 compatible.


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2. Disclaimer and Notices
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Arcadia PowerButton (TM) is trademark of Arcadia Software Development 
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. ActiveX(R),  
Microsoft(R), Visual Basic(R), Windows(R), Windows(R) NT(R), and other 
Microsoft(R)  products are either registered trademarks or trademarks 
of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other Countries. 
The registered trademarks or trademarks of other parties are the property 
of their respective owners and should be treated as such.