Rounded borders Rectangle

[Carlo, MCP]

Hello

I'm having lot of problems in writing a method that returns a Path for a
rounded corners rectangle for drawing a non-rectangular border.
The resulting path is ok for using with FillPath method, but applied to a
DrawPath method the resulting non-rectangular rectangle is wrong.
Applying a Pen to my path, the resulting non-rectangluar rectangle results
cut by 1 pixel in width and 1 pixel in height. Currently, I'm using a
Pen.Alignment=Inset. I observed errors with an even value in the width of
the pen (1, 3, 5, ...).

Does someone has some lines of code that may help me to draw a
non-rectangular border?

TIA

Carlo

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You should be handling the WM_NCCREATE and WM_NCPAINT messages to set up
your non-client areas in which to draw your border.

For rounded rectangle code see the GDI+ FAQ.

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