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Re: Drawing a line with a bevel ot sunken effect

Bob Powell [MVP]
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

That's impossible to do with a 1 pixel line. The minimum is two pixels.

You can do your own by drawing rectangles offset from one another by a pixel
or use the ControlPaint class which has some border drawing routines.

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Re: Drawing a line with a bevel ot sunken effect

Craig
6/1/2005 6:41:02 AM

Hi Bob
Thanks for the reply, I ended taking the 2 line approach; however I didn't
know about ContralPaint. What would you suggest?

Thanks again.
Craig

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Re: Drawing a line with a bevel ot sunken effect

Bob Powell [MVP]
6/1/2005 8:38:00 PM

ControlPaint is great for vanilla effects. If you want something a bit more
specific then roll-your-own graphics is great.

The idea is to show a highlight to the upper-left and a shadow to the
lower-right. These effects can be more or less complex.

For example..

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.White,new Rectangle(10,10,300,200));
e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.DarkGray, new Rectangle(11,11,300,200));
}

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