Borders for panels possible?

[Showjumper]

Is it possible to give borders to panels? I am using a panel for an about
screen and i'd like it to have a black border. If this were asp.net i could
just use styles. Anything for panels in winforms?

 

[Tim Wilson]

There are a couple of ways to achieve this...

The simplest way to achieve this is to place one Panel inside another Panel,
set the inside Panel to be slightly smaller (by the desired border
thickness), and then set the BackColor of the outside Panel to the desired
border color.

The other way to achieve this is through p/invokes.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...k.compactframework/msg/9716222d161a6e52?hl=en

 

[Simon Hart]

Or subclassing and drawing the border yourself using GDI.

Cheers
Simon.

 

[Guest]

Or just hook up into Paint event of a Panel and draw the border. Something
like that:

panel1.Paint+=new PaintEventHandler(panel1_Paint);

private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
Rectangle rc = new Rectangle(0, 0, panel1.Width - 1, panel1.Height - 1);
e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black), rc);
}

 

[Showjumper]

Thanks to everyone for the ideas

Or just hook up into Paint event of a Panel and draw the border. Something
like that:

panel1.Paint+=new PaintEventHandler(panel1_Paint);

private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
Rectangle rc = new Rectangle(0, 0, panel1.Width - 1, panel1.Height -
1);
e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black), rc);
}