Borders around control

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I have a custom control that I am making. When I add a border around the control the border goes outside the bounds of the control on the right and bottom side. I thought I once knew a way to prevent the border from doing this, but I no longer remember. Any ideas?

Posted 24-Nov-12 13:49pm

ERICdahl

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ERICdahl · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-24T18:14:00

It turns out that the stroke that is drawn by a control actually adds on to the size of the control. So in order to keep my control appear at a constant size no matter what the stroke thickness is, I did the following:

I translated the rendered portion of my control down and to the right by half the stroke thickness.
I decreased both the height and width by the stroke thickness.

So far this seems to have solved my problem!