Control with a border

[Harry Hudini]

Is there a control that has a border property whose background colour i can
change ?

I need to have a box which has a black border (1 or 2 px's) and which has a
background property.

I thought a panel would have one. I have knocked together one using two
panel controls, but before i make lots of them, i was wondering if there
might be an easier way.

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[Peter Foot [MVP]]

OpenNETCF has a GroupBox control which has an optional border and text
caption - www.opennetcf.org/sdf/.

Peter

 

[Tim Wilson]

Rather than creating a whole bunch of these "<control>-in a panel-in a
panel" controls, you can make this into one custom control and then reuse it
throughout your application. Give it a border thickness, border style, and
border color property and then you should have much of the flexibility that
you need.

 

[Harry Hudini]

dont suppose you could point me towards a good example of how i would go
about doing this ?

 

[Tim Wilson]

(1) What are you trying to accomplish overall? Just a basic container that
has flexible border properties?
(2) What language are you using (C# or VB.Net)?

 

[Harry Hudini]

1) Yes

2) VB.net

(1) What are you trying to accomplish overall? Just a basic container that
has flexible border properties?
(2) What language are you using (C# or VB.Net)?

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colour

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Take a look at the OpenNETCF GroupBox. It has a BorderStyle and modifying
to code to add color should be pretty simple.

 

[Tim Wilson]

Ok, that's relatively easy to implement as it will be similar to the
OpenNETCF SDF GroupBox, as Peter mentioned in his reply earlier in this
thread.
http://www.opennetcf.org/SourceBrow...ot/Source/OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms/GroupBox.cs

The only catch here is that you *cannot* currently build design-time
controls from VB.Net source against the Compact Framework. So this could be
a catch here. If you are comfortable with C# you might consider using this
language to develop this control instead of VB.Net. If you need some help
just post back here and I'm sure I could give you a hand with this.

 

[Harry Hudini]

Great thanks for letting me know. I had a few ideas for controls (simple
ones) but as I wouldnt know C# from roast chicken, i can pretty much put
them to one side.

I appreciate that opennetcf is great source of abilities, but Im keen to do
things myself, and at over 200k its almost three times the size of my exe
and i would only be using it for one or two things.

Cheers

 

[Tim Wilson]

Ok, if you run into a snag with anything just post to this newsgroup and I'm
sure I, or someone, will give you a hand. One thing to keep in mind is that
you are free to pull anything you want out of the OpenNETCF SDF and compile
it into your source directly, if you are using C#, or compile it into a
separate assembly that you simply reference in your VB.Net app - you do not
specifically need to install the entire SDF.