RichPanel
You can check my new expander (with a header and content controls) here
While developping WinForm applications, I encouter the need to have a more elaborated panel than the simple Panel provided by the .NET framework. So I create a RichPanel.
Supported features
The RichPanel supports:
- Panel background color: Transparent, solid and gradient fill
- Gradient style: Horizontal, Vertical, Forward Diagonal and BackwardDiagonal
- Shadow : Color and thickness (can specifiy not to draw a shadow)
- Border : Color and width (can specifiy not to draw a border)
- Rounded corner: Top, Bottom, Both, None. Also can specify the corner radius
- Header text : Text, Color, Font, Justification(left, center, right)
- Header back color: (could be transparent or solid)
- Header icon: The icon and the justification (left, center, right)
- Header separation line: Position(None, Bottom, Center), Color, Width
How to use the RichPanel
The RichPanel is a control that derive from Panel, so it’s a Panel, and after it has been compiled, it is added directly to the Toolbox. Use can be used it, simply be dragging it from the Toolbox to a form.
RichPanel screenshots
Here are some example of the supported features:
Features to be added in the future
I plan to add somes features to this control.
Categories: Control, WindowsForm
