How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?

[Steph.]

How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?



In fact I would like to have a Panel with Raised borders. I can draw the raised borders but they disappears as soon as I put control inside with it's Dock property set to DockStyle.Fill.





I tried using the "SetClientSizeCore" of my derived Panel..but it doesn't work...



Any help is greatly appreciated !!



Thanks,



Steph.

 

[Tim Wilson]

You'd be best to have the border be treated as non-client area. Try
adjusting the border style using the "GetWindowLong" and "SetWindowLong"
Win32 APIs. You should be able to get what you need at
http://www.pinvoke.net/

--
Tim Wilson
..NET Compact Framework MVP

How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?



In fact I would like to have a Panel with Raised borders. I can draw the
raised borders but they disappears as soon as I put control inside with it's
Dock property set to DockStyle.Fill.





I tried using the "SetClientSizeCore" of my derived Panel..but it doesn't
work...



Any help is greatly appreciated !!



Thanks,



Steph.

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You need to handle the WM_NCPAINT and WM_NCCALCSIZE messages directly. You can change the size and position of the client area within the control and paint your own custom borders.

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How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?



In fact I would like to have a Panel with Raised borders. I can draw the raised borders but they disappears as soon as I put control inside with it's Dock property set to DockStyle.Fill.





I tried using the "SetClientSizeCore" of my derived Panel..but it doesn't work...



Any help is greatly appreciated !!



Thanks,



Steph.