*** RELEASE 3 *** A Simple Container Which Allows You To Add Depth To Your Forms. Now Supports Rounded Corners, Shadow On And Off And Border Colour, Caption (On\Off), Alignment, Show Tab, Font + Colour. See Screen Shot, Now All It Takes Is A 'Little' Imagination...
BUG FIX:The control interfered with the Left$ and Right$ commands, this has now been rectified (Changed The Alignement Enum Members Names). Sorry if this caused you problems, but it's now fixed.
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I like it. Can't wait to get the rounded corners option.I did add the option to have a border with no shadow selected.Keep going.5 from Texas. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Steven, I'm getting lines at the corners of the round corner shadow.The lines look like sunrays at the corners only.Anyone else having this problem?Thanks Ken. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Tell Me What Settings You Are Using I Will Have A Look. What I Have Done Is Drawn Several Round Rectangles Next To Each Other, As We All Know This Leaves Blank Spots, To Which The Pixel Should Be Filled In With An Average Colour. (Also This Effect Doesn't Work With The VB Colours (Eg Button Highlight etc)
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I'm Glad you guys like this post. Thank you for your votes and happy coding :-) Please feel free to use adapt this control. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I have two further releases for this project, Release 3 Captioned Frame and Release 4 Tabs... Keep 'em peeled ladies and gents. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Works and looks nice except for one thing. Try adding InitCommonControls and then adding a manifest file so you can run XP style controls. Once you compile and run the EXE version, it will want to enter Debug mode when you exit the program (Never happens in the IDE). Must be something about manifest files that don't like user controls??? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Simple and excellent. 5 big ones. Suggestion: The "BackColour" and "BackColourIs" property names are misleading because they do not affect the Backcolor (which is controlled by the "FillColour") but the Shadow colour. A simple rename of these properties would resolve this ambiguity. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Paul. The back colour isn't actually the shadow colour, the shadow is always black grey, the back colour is the colour on which the shadow is processed so it can be adapted to match the back colour of the ambient or it's container back colour you see. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
the shadow adapts to the forms ambient backcolor, if the forms backcolor is a syscolor, shadow become opaque. You might as well translate the color to RGBs. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I don't come to PSC hardly at all anymore but wanted to drop a quick note congratulating you on your first contest win! Good work and nice code. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
BUG: Noticed a huge bug guys, if you compile the control and use it it knocks out the use of Left$ and right$, this is down to the naming of my caption alignment Enum... I will repost with the required fix. Sorry if you've been having problems and couldn't figure it out.
Regards Steve (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
8/23/2007 4:01:05 AM:
Great Work, thx for share (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Just use "OleTranslateColor" API to convert system color to Long Value. I have modified and it works fyn for me... Nice work. Thanks. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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