Anyone with GDI+ .Net Experience

[Eriedor]

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I want to create my own control that functions similarly to a progress bar with text overlaid, with control over the background color and the bar itself.

Hence my question, i want to create a rectangle with a subtle vertical central gradient (e.g. dark to light to dark going vertically).

Anyone that can start me off with the required objects and a code snippit?

Typically I'm one for reading documentation an learning myself but time is short atm and need to get this done!

 

[~J~]

1) Create a custom control
2) Inherit the progress bar
3) OverRide the OnPaint event
4) Within this overridden event, have something like:
[psuedo]
e.Graphics.DrawText(attributes in here, can't remember them attribute per attribute, but it's like font, text, weight, etc)

Sorted!

 

[Haircut]

Could you reuse the control from here?
Might be easier than rolling your own.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/exdotnet.aspx

 

[Eriedor]

1) Create a custom control
2) Inherit the progress bar
3) OverRide the OnPaint event
4) Within this overridden event, have something like:
[psuedo]
e.Graphics.DrawText(attributes in here, can't remember them attribute per attribute, but it's like font, text, weight, etc)

Sorted!

Thought about that, but doesn't give me the flexibility i want with controlling back and foreground colours. Thanks though.

Could you reuse the control from here?
Might be easier than rolling your own.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/exdotnet.aspx

Has potential, doesn't quite fulfill my vision though were the progress bar is subtly two tone like common controls progress bar.

 

[Goksly]

Thought about that, but doesn't give me the flexibility i want with controlling back and foreground colours. Thanks though.

But surely you will be able to override the paint event and control the colours at your will?

 

[~J~]

^--- agreeing totally.

The OnPaint command is literally overriding what it draws, so by setting public properties like FGColour, BGColour, Shadow, whatever-you-want, etc, you just draw these in the OnPaint event.

It's as flexible as you want it to be because the OnPaint event literally renders the control to the form.