yankee1950
I am not sure about plugins, but using a sprite as button is just a littleeeee more work, but can give you nice effects.
Just create a sprite with how you would like the button to look like. You can than create different sprites of that button with different effects if you want, for example grayscale or glowing text.
You can use the mouse event, when "curser is over object" and have it switch to another sprite for some nice effect, and than use the on object clicked to run the main button function.....and switch to another sprite for additional effect if you feeling like it :)