Panel can be used to give your applications a modern fresh look with its rounded corners and gradient filled backgrounds. There is however more to it than that. Colours and styles can be used to show the logical structure of applications, to provide grouping and to highlight important facts, figures and functions. All this makes for better applications.

Background

The background lays the visual foundation of Panel and the application. For this background you can specify the appearance of the edge and the interior. The edge can be raised, lowered or flat, its width configurable. The interior can be transparent, filled with one or two colours. There are many different properties that determine how the two colours in a faded background combine.

Border

A panel can have a raised, lowered or flat border, its width configurable.

Client area

The client area, which is that area contained within the border, can also be filled with one or two colours. Once again there are many different properties that determine how the two colours in a faded background combine. The transparency of the client area can be adjusted so that the panel and client backgrounds combine to produce the final appearance. You can also combine Panels to produce interesting and attractive affects.

Corners

It is possible to specify the radius of the panel corners. The radius of each corner can be specified individually.

Images

Panel can display a foreground image, watermark and animated gif. The size and position of these images can be specified. The opacity of the watermark and animated gif may also be specified. Panel includes predefined images; you can also use your own.

Title

A title can be drawn on the panel border. The size, location, text and background of the title are configurable


Requirements: .NET Framework 1.1 with service pack 1

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