Designing a new form

[thechaosengine]

Hi all,

Does anyone know what would be involved in redesigning the look and feel
of the typical windows application form in .net? I've seen applications that
have totally redisigned the look and feel of the form, including the minimize
and maximize and close buttons. The new styles work identically on all the
windows versions that I've seen (98, 2000 and XP)

Can anyone tell me what I would need to do to redesign the Title Bar at the
very least?

Thanks all

Kindest Regards

tce

[Paul Cheetham]

Hi,

You need to draw all the elements of the form yourself. You need to
override the paint events. (As well as the standard paint event ther are
seperate ones for the non-client areas such as the title bar etc.)
You may also need to override the mouse hit-test events.

It's not a trivial task to do all this, but if you design it right in a
class derived from Form you should be able to use it wherever you want.
Paul

thechaosengine wrote:

Hi all,

Does anyone know what would be involved in redesigning the look and feel
of the typical windows application form in .net? I've seen applications
that have totally redisigned the look and feel of the form, including
the minimize and maximize and close buttons. The new styles work
identically on all the windows versions that I've seen (98, 2000 and XP)

Can anyone tell me what I would need to do to redesign the Title Bar at
the very least?

Thanks all

Kindest Regards

tce

[thechaosengine]

Many thanks paul

Kindest Regards

tce

Hi,

You need to draw all the elements of the form yourself. You need to
override the paint events. (As well as the standard paint event ther
are
seperate ones for the non-client areas such as the title bar etc.)
You may also need to override the mouse hit-test events.
It's not a trivial task to do all this, but if you design it right in
a class derived from Form you should be able to use it wherever you
want.

Paul

thechaosengine wrote:

Hi all,

Does anyone know what would be involved in redesigning the look and
feel of the typical windows application form in .net? I've seen
applications that have totally redisigned the look and feel of the
form, including the minimize and maximize and close buttons. The new
styles work identically on all the windows versions that I've seen
(98, 2000 and XP)

Can anyone tell me what I would need to do to redesign the Title Bar
at the very least?

Thanks all

Kindest Regards

tce