If you look at a standard Button in a .NET Windows Forms app, you will
notice its default BackColor is "Control" and it has a 3D raised border
which is 2 pixels wide. The outer edge on the left and top is
"ControlLightLi ght" color and the inner edge on the left and top is
"ControlLig ht". The outer edge on the right and bottom is
"ControlDarkDar k" and the inner edge on the right and bottom is
"ControlDar k". All of these colors are defined as KnownColors in the
System.Drawing namespace.
My question is this, when you change the BackColor of the button to
"Red", the border colors are adjusted as well. The top and left is made
slightly lighter versions of red while the bottom and right are made
slightly darker versions of red.
How can I take a given color such as Red, Green, ... and get their
slightly lighter and darker versions? There doesnt appear to be any
methods in the Color structure or ColorConverter class.
Any ideas?
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I just finished doing this and it is fairly complicated if you want to handle
all the different FlatStyles...Bu tton push styles, Border HighLights etc..
The short imperfect answer is to look at ControlPaint and the various
shades..such a Light, Dark etc..
It gets tricky when you start handling Flat and where is it Hot or
Defaulted(focus ed) as it doesn't use any of the control paint values that I
can find. You also have to check the brightness of the base color and if
below .5 use a different shade...
Not as easy as it looks...
I ended up using 15 shades of base colors as follows..
"jr*******@hotm ail.com" wrote: If you look at a standard Button in a .NET Windows Forms app, you will
notice its default BackColor is "Control" and it has a 3D raised border
which is 2 pixels wide. The outer edge on the left and top is
"ControlLightLi ght" color and the inner edge on the left and top is
"ControlLig ht". The outer edge on the right and bottom is
"ControlDarkDar k" and the inner edge on the right and bottom is
"ControlDar k". All of these colors are defined as KnownColors in the
System.Drawing namespace.
My question is this, when you change the BackColor of the button to
"Red", the border colors are adjusted as well. The top and left is made
slightly lighter versions of red while the bottom and right are made
slightly darker versions of red.
How can I take a given color such as Red, Green, ... and get their
slightly lighter and darker versions? There doesnt appear to be any
methods in the Color structure or ColorConverter class.
Any ideas?
AWESOME! Works perfect. Thank you. jr*******@hotma il.com wrote: If you look at a standard Button in a .NET Windows Forms app, you
will notice its default BackColor is "Control" and it has a 3D raised
border which is 2 pixels wide. The outer edge on the left and top is
"ControlLightLi ght" color and the inner edge on the left and top is
"ControlLig ht". The outer edge on the right and bottom is
"ControlDarkDar k" and the inner edge on the right and bottom is
"ControlDar k". All of these colors are defined as KnownColors in the
System.Drawing namespace.
My question is this, when you change the BackColor of the button to
"Red", the border colors are adjusted as well. The top and left is
made slightly lighter versions of red while the bottom and right are made
slightly darker versions of red.
How can I take a given color such as Red, Green, ... and get their
slightly lighter and darker versions? There doesnt appear to be any
methods in the Color structure or ColorConverter class.
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