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FreeStyle Button [Button with skins/themes]
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6/1/2005 10:08:43 AM |
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Rehan R. Dalal
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This is a new button control which is completely user-drawn. It can be expanded to easily included more and more themes. Currently there are nine themes (LiquidChromeXP, WindowsXP, SoftGlassXP, MSNLoginButton, Aqua, 3DHover, OfficeXP, Office2003 and Macintosh). Of these 5 can take up any color (as specified by you through the ThemeColor Property) and will automatically redraw with the correct color. In addition to this the themes also have text effects like shadows and bevels which can be turned on and off.
Presently there is no support for images however I am writing code for the next version which will support them.
In addition to all this it comes with a custom written module for multiple color manipulatory functions which can return the resulting color for color mixes (using such blend modes as soft light, overlay, screen and multiply : such as in Adobe Photoshop) and also color invertion and HSB2RGB Conversion.
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 6/1/2005 11:49:13 AM: Rehan R. Dalal
Comments are greatly appreciated. If you like it please VOTE!!!
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6/2/2005 9:28:19 AM: Rehan R. Dalal
Thanks for all the votes!
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6/2/2005 5:53:52 PM: Xeon Productions
Excellent, this deserves 5 globes.
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6/3/2005 2:35:51 AM: Rehan R. Dalal
Thanks man...
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6/8/2005 5:27:48 AM: Phantom Man
Well Done Rehan, Nice Intuative And Well Made Control.
I Can't Wait To See Your Updates.
Thanks For Sharing.
Regards
Gary
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6/8/2005 11:51:57 AM: Rehan R. Dalal
Well the updates gonna come hopefully very soon with better drawing functions and more themes...
Thanks for the globes...
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6/20/2005 6:42:40 AM: Alaeddin Hallak
looks very good!!! 5 stars!
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6/25/2005 1:01:27 PM: Andrea Minganti
That's a great piece of code, keep up the good work!
(And dont forget to update :P)
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7/1/2005 3:03:20 PM: ARichardson
i am missing a reference and can't find it in my standard list...where can I get ShdocVw?
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7/2/2005 6:54:21 AM: Rehan R. Dalal
ShdocVw is not required by this project at all... It was originally placed as a reference to allow placing of a web browser on one of the forms.. I had forgotten to remove the reference... I will correct this in the next upload...
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7/4/2005 4:41:30 AM: James H.
I'm very impressed. Another 5 globes for you :)
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7/21/2005 12:04:09 PM: Aníbal Svarcas
Hi,
This is a great work!
I noticed that in the 'Aqua Theme/FillPill method/Circle case', the drawing line doesn't draw the border of the circle correctly on the right side. Try replacing with the following line, and the border of the circle will draw itself completlly (try it and watch the right side of the circle)
e.Graphics.FillEllipse(b, New Rectangle(rect.X, rect.Y, RECT.WIDTH - 1, rect.Height))
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7/24/2005 3:50:07 AM: Arvin Meralpis
nice. 5 globes from me
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9/7/2005 5:35:59 AM: Kon Phanphengdy
Nice work, thanks for sharing.
5 marbles mate.
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10/2/2005 4:37:24 PM: Secrets
nice work! keep it up
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10/20/2005 7:51:51 PM: Jorge Bastos
Hi there,
I have 2 questions to you, this code i've found here is great! Just what i needed but i have 2 problems, the 1st one is that i cannot do the same i do in the standard .net buttons, putting the text like button1.text = "&Save" to add "S" as shortcut, and the secund is, when the button is selected, if i hit enter it doesn't do the click event, only if i hit the space key, are there any parameter for this or this version works like this?
The version of fsbutton.dll is 1.0.2119.41403
Hope you can help and give a quick feedback.
Thanks in advanced,
Jorge Bastos
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1/30/2006 9:54:54 AM: Massimo
For anyone interested, I created Vista Skin for the button and for those that want the shortcut to work, Add this line of code to the DrawText() method
sf.HotkeyPrefix = Drawing.Text.HotkeyPrefix.Show
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4/12/2006 1:58:46 PM: Ankit Verma
Great Buttons. Which i ever seen in my life
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4/17/2006 12:41:32 PM: Omar Alejandro Jonguitud Zamora
Jorge, about your first question. If you want to catch a key other than the space just check the OnkeyUp() and onkeydown() methods. Add the code to responde to keys.return and the keycode = 13 (return) and your first problem would be solved. Hope it helps.
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6/7/2006 2:50:50 AM: Karel
Great article, excellent code! Using themes by your way is great idea. I vote 5 globes.
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6/17/2006 12:38:06 AM: xprepairpro
i was wondering if this is limited to only buttons? maybe you could do an example of other items. tabpags?
toolsrips? menustrips?
ive just started looking at the code so i havent gotten to much into it. i definately like what i see though. 5 stars here
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7/18/2006 8:57:37 AM: Cory
I couldn't run this in VS 2005.
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8/17/2006 10:41:04 AM: J Retief
Fantastic work. Well done. Could I be as bold as to ask if it will be possible to translate into C#?
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9/3/2006 1:37:26 AM: VBNewComer
Have any controls for VB forms too ?, Just downloaded your code but not evaluated yet.
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12/11/2006 10:19:49 AM: Claus Thomsen
Why do I always get this error: "One or more projects failed to convert. These projects are now unloaded and marked as unavailable in the Solution Explorer. Reload those projects to determine the cause." ? :/
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2/15/2007 2:47:56 PM: Keri Londonl
Awesome!!! Love it!!!
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3/6/2007 10:02:34 AM: ayman metwally
Me too :
I couldn't run this in VS 2005 !
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3/6/2007 10:06:01 AM: ayman metwally
OK, I removed all SHDocVw.InternetExplorer and its related staff ..
Works good now ..
And its time to vote: (Excellent of course)
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3/8/2007 3:06:05 AM: Mohammad AlSayeh
hi there
the buttons are extraordinary but I would like to know how to place a background image for the control and let the background image take the shape of it
thanks in advance
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7/19/2008 9:50:29 AM: said ammir
good job thx and good luck
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12/4/2008 4:20:11 AM:
Good good !
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1/15/2009 2:16:14 AM: Sunil
This is one of the best article
thanks a lot
keep the good work
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2/18/2009 12:34:10 AM: Nil
Great button. Thanks!
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1/4/2011 2:29:13 PM: Medaco
Nice Button, good work
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1/16/2011 6:33:48 PM: Karl
Is this button free to use in commercial applications ?
Regards.
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6/17/2011 6:20:30 AM: Manuel
Great work !!!. Thanks for sharing it with us
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6/25/2011 11:47:09 AM: MJ
Hi! Great control, but when I create it in execution time, I can´t change themecolor. What can I do?
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