GDI+ Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005
暫譯: 使用 Visual C# 2005 的 GDI+ 自訂控制項

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