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A Simple Implementation of Outlook Style Groupbox Control With Transparency Support

This document describes an implementation of an Outlook-style group box control for .NET with transparency support. The control allows customizing the group box border color, background image or icon, and enables a transparent background. The source code provided implements the control using GDI+ and doubles buffering to draw the text, line, and image or icon on the transparent background.

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A Simple Implementation of Outlook Style Groupbox Control With Transparency Support

This document describes an implementation of an Outlook-style group box control for .NET with transparency support. The control allows customizing the group box border color, background image or icon, and enables a transparent background. The source code provided implements the control using GDI+ and doubles buffering to draw the text, line, and image or icon on the transparent background.

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Introduction
This article explains very simple implementation of a outlook style groupbox. This control also
supports transparent background.

Features
Following are the customizable things in this control
Groupbox border color
Back image or icon

Transparent background
This is achieved by using follwing code.
bool_isTransparent=false;
[Browsable(true),Category("Appearance")]
publicboolIsTransparent
{
get{return_isTransparent;}
set
{
_isTransparent=value;
if(_isTransparent==true)
{
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor,true);
this.BackColor=Color.Transparent;
}
Invalidate();
}
}

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usingSystem;
usingSystem.Collections;
usingSystem.ComponentModel;
usingSystem.Drawing;
usingSystem.Data;
usingSystem.Windows.Forms;
namespaceOwf.Controls
{
publicpartialclassOutlookGroupBox:Panel
{
[Browsable(true)]
publicnewstringText
{
get{returnbase.Text;}
set
{
base.Text=value;
Invalidate();
}
}

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privateColor_lineColor=SystemColors.Highlight;
[Browsable(true),Category("Appearance")]
publicColorLineColor
{
get{return_lineColor;}
set
{
_lineColor=value;
Invalidate();
}
}

privateImage_image;
[Browsable(true),Category("Appearance")]
publicImageImage
{
get{return_image;}
set
{
if(value!=null)
{
_image=value;
_icon=null;
Invalidate();
}
}
}
privateIcon_icon;
[Browsable(true),Category("Appearance")]
publicIconIcon
{
get{return_icon;}
set
{
if(value!=null)
{
_icon=value;
_image=null;
Invalidate();
}
}
}
bool_isTransparent=false;
[Browsable(true),Category("Appearance")]
publicboolIsTransparent
{
get{return_isTransparent;}
set
{
_isTransparent=value;
if(_isTransparent==true)
{
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor,true);
this.BackColor=Color.Transparent;
}
Invalidate();
}
}
publicOutlookGroupBox()
{
InitializeComponent();
SetStyles();
}
publicOutlookGroupBox(IContainercontainer)
{
container.Add(this);
InitializeComponent();
SetStyles();
}
voidSetStyles()
{
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer,true);
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint,true);
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw,true);
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint,true);
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor,true);
}
privatevoidOutlookGroupBox_Paint(objectsender,PaintEventArgse)
{
Fontfont=this.Font;
SizeFsize=e.Graphics.MeasureString(this.Text,font);
e.Graphics.DrawString(this.Text,font,newSolidBrush(this.ForeColor),1,1);
e.Graphics.DrawLine(newPen(_lineColor),size.Width+3,(size.Height+3)/2,
this.Width5,(size.Height+3)/2);
if(_image!=null)
{
e.Graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(_image,this.Padding.Left,this.Padding.Top);
}
elseif(_icon!=null)
{
e.Graphics.DrawIconUnstretched(_icon,newRectangle(this.Padding.Left,
this.Padding.Top,_icon.Width,_icon.Height));
}

}
}
}

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