Hello, I'm using a ListView in C# to make a grid. I would like to find out a way to be able to highlight a specific cell, programatically. I only need to highlight one cell. I've experimented with Owner Drawn subitems, but using the below code, I get highlighted cells, but no text! Are there any ideas on how to get this working? Th...
Anyone have a C# example showing an owner drawn tabcontrol with hot-tracking effects? I've implemented a nice owner drawn tabcontrol using C# and .NET 2.0 but i'm stumped when it comes to implementing hot-tracking effects. Any Ideas? ...
How do i enable double-buffering of a control using C# (Window forms)? I have a panelcontrol which i am drawing stuff into and also an owner drawn tabcontrol. Both suffer from flicker, so how to enable double-buffering? ...
I have derived a TabControl with the express purpose of enabling double buffering, except nothing is working as expected. Here is the TabControl code: class DoubleBufferedTabControl : TabControl { public DoubleBufferedTabControl() : base() { this.DoubleBuffered = true; this.SetStyle ( ControlStyle...
I was planning to implememt owner-drawn of CListCtrl. I thought that drawing an item is after the item is inserted into the control. So my method is declare a class which is derived from CListCtrl and override its DrawItem() method. The problem is DrawItem is never invoked after inserting an item. Is there anything wrong with my method? ...
I have a multiline text string (e.g. "Stuff\nMore Stuff\nYet More Stuff"), and I want to paint it, along with a bitmap into a tooltip. Since I am painting the bitmap, I need to set OwnerDraw to true, which I am doing. I am also handling the Popup event, so I can size the tooltip to be large enough to hold the text and the bitmap. I am ...
I would like to be able to create a black custom window (with border and controls) like that shipped as part of expression blend, Twirl, or Adobe Lightroom. Is there a best practices way of creating an owner drawn window? Platform: C# and WindowsForms (any version) ...
Hi, I'm creating a plugin to a software that skins the form I created. However, the button are not skin based on them and a standard gray button is shown. Asking on the software forum pointed me that .NET forms control are owner-draw and therefor my button won't redraw with the correct style instead of creating a non ownerdraw button. ...
I'm trying to implement a .NET control that functions like the Firefox Awesome Bar. To that end, I'm trying to bold and underline searched for characters inside of search results displayed in a ListView. I've set up OwnerDraw and I'm using Graphics.MeasureCharacterRanges to figure out how big the characters are. The problem I'm having...
I have a .Net ComboBox where I am drawing the items using DrawMode.OwnerDrawVariable or DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed. When I do this, the standard behavior where pressing the first letter of an item when the style is DropDownList causes the item that starts with that letter to be selected stops working. What is the correct way to enable thi...
I have a winform app that has tabcontrols that are 3 layers deep. I am dynamically coloring the tabs with the below class. When it goes to color an embedded tabcontrol it pitches a fit. A first chance exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Do I need to do something different f...
I have an ownerdrawn ListView that "smears" when I scroll. It only affects the last displayed item as it moves into the visible are of the list... It looks like: Blah Blah Blah ...have all been drawn on top of each other 1 pixel apart. The code in the DrawItem event is of the form Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(e.Bounds.X +...
I set the DrawMode to OwnerDrawText and tacked on to the DrawNode event, added my code to draw the text the way I want and all works well save for some odd black selection highlighting when a node is selected. No problem, I added logic to check for if the node's state was highlighted and drew my own highlighting except the black highlig...
I have a .net 3.5 windows application with a bound combobox. I have overridden the DrawItem event to color the background of individual items based on certain conditions. I have asynchronous threads running which update the condition values and call Invalidate() to get the combobox to redraw. This all works very well, except when the co...
I am using owner draw variable style for a listbox( winforms 2.0) when a user selects an items I want to draw an edit control in that cell Is that doable not a drop down but an actual edit control appearing in the cell or item as it were how thanks ...
I am learning PyQt and wonder if one can create custom/owner draw control like one show in the figure below: The search box has magnifier icon on its right border. Is this kind of thing possible with PyQt? Thanks! ...
I am experimenting with owner drawn list box. I am adding a text box to a specific item within list box. However, when I start scrolling, the text box does not display in the right location. What is the right way to do this? Here's the code I am using. Form1.cs using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel...
Please excuse my ignorance, but I have come across this term "owner drawn" listbox. Can someone experienced with this explain what exactly that is? ...
Hi All- Is it me or can I only set the itemheight - e.ItemHeight - once for a listbox? Although I handle the MeasureItemEvent on my ownerdrawn listbox and set the e.ItemHeight to the right value, only the first height that is set will be used. Oops, I am new to this, sorry about that. This is the code (DrawItemHandler is of course in...
I'm trying to make a trackbar with a custom graphic for the slider thumb. I have started out with the following code: namespace testapp { partial class MyTrackBar : System.Windows.Forms.TrackBar { public MyTrackBar() { InitializeComponent(); } protected override void OnPaint(System.W...