Hi Tcoton, Fabio,
Hopefully this will clarify things.
Using project 'foreign key translation 2-1' as the example that you mentioned -
1. It uses the 'cyan dusk' style (.vsf (visual styles form)).
2. The 'images' on the buttons are unicode symbols and so can be copied (and resized if required) on to each button's caption; for example instead of typing in 'Configuration' as a button's caption, you could use an appropriate unicode symbol.
3. Using unicode symbols instead of text for button captions has nothing to do with the visual styles forms (.vsf) and can be done even when using the 'default' MVD style. Attached is a re-post of an project I put together a while back with some of the unicode symbols that I commonly use; there are a couple of screenshots that show the steps involved when setting it up.
4. Unicode symbols can be used not just as button captions but anywhere that you can enter text (ie labels, comboboxes, tablegrid cells etc).
Note that it is possible to switch off certain elements of any of the visual styles forms - for example, I sometimes want to display labels on a form in a different colour (the default for the 'cyan dusk' style is black) so I would switch off this specific part of the visual styles form functionality.
Regards,
Derek.