change color of a control's border

[Paiam Salavati]

I have to change the color of the border in a Control whose BorderStyle is
"Fixed3D" (for example Label).
I could change the color of a Label only if its BorderStyle was set to
"None" but I havent't found a way so far that allows me to set the color for
a control with BorderStyle "Fixed3D".

Actually I need this functionality to change the Border-Color for the tabs
in an TabControl.

does anybody has an idea how I could do this? I also appreciate some
sample-code.

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Paiam,

A solution from

microsoft.dotnet.languages.vb newsgroup

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...tngp13.phx.gbl

I hope this helps?

Cor

[Paiam Salavati]

I tried this, but it doesn't take effect on the color of the border ob the
tabs. With this implementation you just can change the color of the tab not
its border-color.

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OT**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi Paiam,

A solution from

microsoft.dotnet.languages.vb newsgroup

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...tngp13.phx.gbl
I hope this helps?

Cor

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Paiam,

It is based on a rectangle would it not be making a smaller rectangle after
that and paint that again in the old color, that was the way I would try it
when it was my problem.

Cor

[Mick Doherty]

As I said last time that you asked this question, you will have to take full
control of the drawing and draw the borders yourself. This is fairly simple
for buttonstyle borders but tabstyle borders will need more work. For button
style borders you just use the 'ControlPaint.DrawBorder' method to draw the
border in your desired colour.

--
Mick Doherty
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mdaudi1...bcontrols.html


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