How to write your own custom Form

From:		Sebastian Mark - view profile
Date:		Fri, Nov 12 2004 3:18 am
Email:		Sebastian Mark <trap_rem...@terianREMOVE.net>
Groups:		microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms

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I want to create my own form, I've tried inheriting :Form but its just
doesn't work for me since I want to do custom drawing for every part of
the form (overriding NCPAINT still does funky things)

I was trying to derive from ContainerControl but my "control" does not
appear unless I assign the parent. Why? What is the best way to approach
this problem?

Thanks

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From:   Bob Powell [MVP] - view profile Date:   Fri, Nov 12 2004 5:50 am Email:   "Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> Groups:   microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms Not yet rated Rating:   show options Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse | Find messages by this author You might be better off looking at NativeWindow. -- Bob Powell [MVP] Visual C#, System.Drawing Answer those GDI+ questions with the GDI+ FAQ http://www.bobpowell.net/gdiplus_faq.htm The GDI+ FAQ RSS feed: http://www.bobpowell.net/faqfeed.xml Windows Forms Tips and Tricks RSS: http://www.bobpowell.net/tipstricks.xml Bob's Blog: http://bobpowelldotnet.blogspot.com/atom.xml   "Sebastian Mark" <trap_rem ...@terianREMOVE.net> wrote in message news:%238MrqNCyEHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...   > I want to create my own form, I've tried inheriting :Form but its just > doesn't work for me since I want to do custom drawing for every part of > the form (overriding NCPAINT still does funky things) > I was trying to derive from ContainerControl but my "control" does not > appear unless I assign the parent. Why? What is the best way to approach > this problem? > Thanks - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Reply

From:   Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP] - view profile Date:   Fri, Nov 12 2004 11:44 am Email:   "Stoitcho Goutsev /(100/) [C# MVP]" <1...@100.com> Groups:   microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms Not yet rated Rating:   show options Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse | Find messages by this author Hi Sebastian, I just want to throw an idea. I don't know if you can work something out of it. So the idea is the following. Hide the caption bar of a normal form and draw everything yourself. Most of the details of making this form acting as a normal form are pretty easy to handle. I'm posting a sample code that you can compile and run. The sample has glitches, but is a good start I believe. Here is the code. That is one very ugly form :) -- HTH Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP] using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; using System.Drawing.Drawing2D; namespace WinApp {  /// <summary>  /// Summary description for Form1.  /// </summary>  public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form  {   private System.Windows.Forms.Panel panel1;   private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;   private System.Windows.Forms.Button button2;   /// <summary>   /// Required designer variable.   /// </summary>   private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;   public Form1()   {    //    // Required for Windows Form Designer support    //    InitializeComponent();    SetStyle(ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw | ControlStyles.UserPaint | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);   }   /// <summary>   /// Clean up any resources being used.   /// </summary>   protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )   {    if( disposing )    {     if (components != null)     {      components.Dispose();     }    }    base.Dispose( disposing );   }   #region Windows Form Designer generated code   /// <summary>   /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify   /// the contents of this method with the code editor.   /// </summary>   private void InitializeComponent()   {    this.panel1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();    this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();    this.button2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();    this.SuspendLayout();    //    // panel1    //    this.panel1.BackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Info;    this.panel1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;    this.panel1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 20);    this.panel1.Name = "panel1";    this.panel1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(408, 370);    this.panel1.TabIndex = 0;    //    // button1    //    this.button1.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right)));    this.button1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;    this.button1.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;    this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(384, 2);    this.button1.Name = "button1";    this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(16, 16);    this.button1.TabIndex = 1;    this.button1.Text = "C";    this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button1_Click);    //    // button2    //    this.button2.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right)));    this.button2.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.BlueViolet;    this.button2.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;    this.button2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(360, 2);    this.button2.Name = "button2";    this.button2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(16, 16);    this.button2.TabIndex = 2;    this.button2.Text = "M";    this.button2.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button2_Click);    //    // Form1    //    this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);    this.BackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control;    this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(408, 390);    this.ControlBox = false;    this.Controls.Add(this.button2);    this.Controls.Add(this.button1);    this.Controls.Add(this.panel1);    this.DockPadding.Top = 20;    this.Name = "Form1";    this.ResumeLayout(false);   }   #endregion   /// <summary>   /// The main entry point for the application.   /// </summary>   [STAThread]   static void Main()   {    Application.Run(new Form1());   }   protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)   {    Rectangle caption = new Rectangle(0, 0, this.Width, this.DockPadding.Top);    LinearGradientBrush lgb = new LinearGradientBrush(caption, Color.Yellow,Color.Lime, 0, false);    e.Graphics.FillRectangle(lgb, caption);   }   private const int WM_NCHITTEST = 0x84;   private const int HTCAPTION = 0x2;   private const int HTCLIENT = 0x1;   protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)   {    base.WndProc (ref m);    if(m.Msg == WM_NCHITTEST && m.Result == new IntPtr(HTCLIENT))    {     m.Result = new IntPtr(HTCAPTION);    }   }   private const int WS_SYSMENU = 0x00080000;   private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)   {    this.Close();   }   private void button2_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)   {    if(this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Normal)    {     this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;     this.button2.Text = "R";    }    else    {     this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;     this.button2.Text = "M";    }   }   protected override CreateParams CreateParams   {    get    {     CreateParams cp =  base.CreateParams;     cp.Style = cp.Style | WS_SYSMENU;     return cp;    }   }  }   } "Sebastian Mark" <trap_rem ...@terianREMOVE.net> wrote in message news:%238MrqNCyEHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...   >I want to create my own form, I've tried inheriting :Form but its just >doesn't work for me since I want to do custom drawing for every part of the >form (overriding NCPAINT still does funky things) > I was trying to derive from ContainerControl but my "control" does not > appear unless I assign the parent. Why? What is the best way to approach > this problem? > Thanks - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -