Borders for panels possible?

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Showjumper - 30 Dec 2005 14:31 GMT

Is it possible to give borders to panels? I am using a panel for an about
screen and i'd like it to have a black border. If this were asp.net i could
just use styles. Anything for panels in winforms?

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Tim Wilson - 30 Dec 2005 16:55 GMT

There are a couple of ways to achieve this...

The simplest way to achieve this is to place one Panel inside another Panel,
set the inside Panel to be slightly smaller (by the desired border
thickness), and then set the BackColor of the outside Panel to the desired
border color.

The other way to achieve this is through p/invokes.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframewor
k/msg/9716222d161a6e52?hl=en

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> Is it possible to give borders to panels? I am using a panel for an about
> screen and i'd like it to have a black border. If this were asp.net i could
> just use styles. Anything for panels in winforms?

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Simon Hart - 30 Dec 2005 18:22 GMT

Or subclassing and drawing the border yourself using GDI.

Cheers
Simon.

> There are a couple of ways to achieve this...
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> could
>> just use styles. Anything for panels in winforms?

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Alex Yakhnin [MVP] - 30 Dec 2005 21:39 GMT

Or just hook up into Paint event of a Panel and draw the border. Something
like that:

panel1.Paint+=new PaintEventHandler(panel1_Paint);

private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
Rectangle rc = new Rectangle(0, 0, panel1.Width - 1, panel1.Height - 1);
e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black), rc);
}

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Alex Yakhnin, .NET CF MVP
www.intelliprog.com | www.opennetcf.org

> Or subclassing and drawing the border yourself using GDI.
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Showjumper - 30 Dec 2005 21:59 GMT

Thanks to everyone for the ideas

> Or just hook up into Paint event of a Panel and draw the border. Something
> like that:
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>> > could
>> >> just use styles. Anything for panels in winforms?

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