GDI+ Application Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Custom Controls
  • What Are Controls?
  • Introducing Custom Controls
    • Categories of User Controls
  • Preparing Your Environment
  • What Are Custom Controls Made Of?
    • Private Fields
    • Properties
    • Indexers
    • Events and Delegates
      • Handling Events
    • Collections
    • Enums
  • Building TinyNoiseMaker
    • Time for Action—Creating the TinyNoiseMaker Custom Control

• Extending TinyNoiseMaker
  • Time for Action—Adding Public Functionality
  • Time for Action—Using the Control's Public Interface

• Summary

• Chapter 2: Introduction to GDI+
  • Understanding Control Drawing
    • Understanding GDI+
    • The Graphics Object
    • The Control.Paint Event
    • Invalidation
  • Simple Drawing on a Form
    • Time for Action—Creating the Application

• Drawing Inside a Panel Object
  • Time for Action—Creating the Application

• Drawing Inside a Control
  • Time for Action—Creating the Application

• Summary

• Chapter 3: Basic Drawing
  • The GDI+ Coordinate System
  • Drawing with GDI+
    • Using the Color Object
    • Drawing Using the Pen Object
    • Filling Surfaces Using the Brush Object
    • Drawing Text Using the Font Object
    • Improving Drawing Quality
  • Building the GradientLabel Control
    • Time for Action—Creating the GradientLabel Custom Control

• Summary

• Chapter 4: Drawing Complex Shapes and Using Transformations
  • Drawing Complex Shapes
    • The GraphicsPath Object
    • The Region Object
  • Clipping Drawing Using Region Objects
    • Keeping Drawing Inside a Region
    • Keeping Drawing Outside a Region
  • Graphics Transformations
    • Translation
    • Rotation
    • Scaling
  • Creating the Clock Control
    • Time for Action—Creating the Clock Control
    • Time for Action—Updating the Clock to Use Transformations

• Summary

• Chapter 5: Drawing Control Parts, Borders, and Adornments
  • Rendering Common Control Parts
    • Drawing Buttons
    • Drawing Caption Buttons
    • Drawing Checkboxes
    • Drawing Drop-Down Buttons
    • Drawing Radio Buttons
    • Drawing Scroll Buttons
  • Rendering Borders and Frames
    • Rendering Button Borders
    • Rendering 3D Borders
  • Rendering Control Adornments
  • Creating Multiple Controls that Reuse the Same Functionality
    • Creating a Base Class for Two or More Controls
      • Time for Action—Creating the ControlPart Base Class
  • Creating Derived Controls
    • Time for Action—Creating the ScrollArrowButton Control
    • Time for Action—Creating the CheckButton Control

• Extending Existing Controls
  • Time for Action—Creating the BorderGradientPanel Control
  • Time for Action—Implementing the GradientButton Control

• Summary

• Chapter 6: Working with Images
  • Drawing Images
    • Using the Image Class
    • Using the Bitmap Class
    • Displaying Images
      • Time for Action—Displaying Images
  • Image Effects
  • Skewing, Rotation, and Scaling

• Building the ImageWarper Class
  • Time for Action—Creating the ImageWarper Class

• The ImageWarperControl
  • Time for Action—Creating the ImageWarperApp and the Image WarperControl

• Summary

• Chapter 7: Printing
  • .NET Printing Explained
    • Using the PrintDocument Class
  • Your First Print Job
    • Time for Action—Creating the "Hello Printer!" Application

• The SimpleReportPrinter
  • Building the SimpleReportPrinter and TextDispenser Classes
    • Time for Action—Building the TextDispenser Class
    • Time for Action—Building the SimpleReportPrinter Class

• User Involvement
• Our Responsibilities as Programmers

• Printing Custom Controls
  • Time for Action—Creating the PrintableRichTextBox

• Summary

• Chapter 8: Collections
  • Collections in the .NET Framework
    • ArrayList
    • Queue
    • Stack
    • SortedList
  • Generics
  • Building the Font Picker
    • Time for Action—Building Font Picker

• Summary

• Chapter 9: Double Buffering
  • Introduction to Double Buffering
  • The Scroll Bar
    • Scroll that Text!
      • Time for Action—Building FlickerFree Control

• Summary

• Chapter 10: Handling Mouse Events
  • Handling Mouse Events
    • Working with Coordinates
  • Dragging and Dropping
    • Dragging
      • Time for Action—Dragging
  • Dragging and Dropping
    • Time for Action—Dragging and Dropping

• Summary

• Chapter 11: Implementing Design-Time Support
  • Building Designer-Friendly Controls
    • Attributes
    • Designers
    • Type Converters
    • UI Type Editors
    • Property Editors
      • Creating Property Editors
        • Time for Action—Adding Design-Time Support
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: Designing Intuitive Interfaces
  • The Relationship between User and Computer
    • Communicating with Users
  • Requests, Input Parsing, Fault Tolerance, and Feedback
    • Examining the Sketcher Control
  • Looking Further Into Input Parsing
    • How Can We Use Regex to Our Advantage?
      • Time for Action—Creating the Regex Application
  • Our Regex Pattern in Detail

• Optimization and Coding Conventions
• Summary

• Chapter 13: The PieChart Control
  • Creating the PieChart Control
    • Time for Action—Creating the PieChart Control

• Adding Slice Names and Delimiters
  • Time for Action—Improving the PieChart Control

• PieChart Legend
  • Time for Action—Creating the PieChart Legend

• Printing the PieChart
  • Time for Action—The Printable PieChart

• Adding and Removing Slices
  • Time for Action—Add Application Support for PieChart Slice Add/Remove Operations

• Summary

• Appendix A: Distributing Custom Controls
  • Creating a Control Library Using Visual Studio 2005
  • Creating a Control Library Using Visual C# Express 2005
  • Using a Custom Control Library

• Index

Adam Ward

Dragos Brezoi

Iulian Serban

Tiberiu Radu

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