Changing buttons and frames

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How can i change a form's frame or buttons?

By change, i mean colors,shapes etc..?

And i would like to change a buttons color when the cursor on it.

Thanks.

Posted 23-Jan-13 10:14am

Hslldm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jan-13 16:24pm

What do you mean by Form, exactly? Which buttons? Client or non-client..?
—SA

Hslldm 23-Jan-13 17:16pm

I mean windows app forms

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jan-13 17:18pm

Got it. Well, add the tag "Forms".
Now, client-area or non-client buttons?
—SA

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Solution 2

It depends on the kind of application you are developing. For instance, if you are using Windows Forms then you may find this article interesting: "Shaped Windows Forms and Controls in Visual Studio .NET"[^].

Posted 23-Jan-13 10:30am

CPallini

Updated 23-Jan-13 10:31am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jan-13 18:23pm

This is not exactly it, I think. OP confirmed System.Windows.Forms, but this should be... of course, very inaccurate formulation by OP... please see my answer.
—SA

Solution 1

Your question should be more specific to get good answers. If you are wanting to change attributes of HTML objects. If this is true you can use jQuery and CSS.

http://api.jquery.com/css/[^]

Here is a quick sample:

JavaScript

<script>
  $("Button").mouseover(function () {
    $(this).css("color","red");
  });
</script>

Posted 23-Jan-13 10:30am

BC @ CV

Updated 23-Jan-13 10:35am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-23T12:21:00

Thank you for the clarification of the question.

Here is the CodeProject article for you to learn about related techniques:
WinForm Extended[^].

These two CodeProject articles can also be useful:
Winforms SkinFramework[^],
WinForms Form Skin[^].

I would advise you to avoid such deep customization, as it requires P/Invoke and hence kills platform compatibility which you could have with pure FCL System.Windows.Forms library.

Enjoy,

—SA