Custom Controls Table of Contents

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