Hi Hendra,
Excuse me for the red herring - I only took a cursory glance and the various attributes available.
The short answer to your question about the ActiveX controls is no, there are no controls that we (National Instruments) provide that look like Java buttons. From wikipedia: "ActiveX is Microsoft technology used for developing reusable object oriented software components" (
see full article here).
To that end, you should know that we do sell a product called
Measurement Studio for Visual Studio 6.0, 2003, and 2005. Measurement Studio 6.0 (for VS 6.0) does include a set of custom ActiveX controls targeted towards test and measurement applications (graphs, knobs, numeric inputs, etc.), but again, none of these fit the description of what you are looking for.
In order to develop your own ActiveX controls, you would need to develop a project written in VS 6.0 since VS 2003 and later moved to the .NET framework. Furthermore, you should know that Microsoft has made public their intentions to drop support for ActiveX in future versions of Windows, possibly including Windows Vista at some point.
In all honesty, I would probably lean towards the Picture Command Button for ease of implementation.
Regards,