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How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?



In fact I would like to have a Panel with Raised borders. I can draw the raised borders but they disappears as soon as I put control inside with it's Dock property set to DockStyle.Fill.



I tried using the "SetClientSizeC ore" of my derived Panel..but it doesn't work...

Any help is greatly appreciated !!



Thanks,



Steph.
Nov 17 '05 #1
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You'd be best to have the border be treated as non-client area. Try
adjusting the border style using the "GetWindowL ong" and "SetWindowL ong"
Win32 APIs. You should be able to get what you need at
http://www.pinvoke.net/

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"Steph." <st***@nomail.c om> wrote in message
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How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?

In fact I would like to have a Panel with Raised borders. I can draw the
raised borders but they disappears as soon as I put control inside with it's
Dock property set to DockStyle.Fill.

I tried using the "SetClientSizeC ore" of my derived Panel..but it doesn't
work...

Any help is greatly appreciated !!

Thanks,

Steph.
Nov 17 '05 #2
You need to handle the WM_NCPAINT and WM_NCCALCSIZE messages directly. You can change the size and position of the client area within the control and paint your own custom borders.

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"Steph." <st***@nomail.c om> wrote in message news:eb******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl...
How can change the bounds of the client area of a control ?



In fact I would like to have a Panel with Raised borders. I can draw the raised borders but they disappears as soon as I put control inside with it's Dock property set to DockStyle.Fill.

I tried using the "SetClientSizeC ore" of my derived Panel..but it doesn't work...

Any help is greatly appreciated !!



Thanks,



Steph.
Nov 17 '05 #3

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