[RESOLVED] linklabel styling?

[Muller2]

Hi,

How can I change the font, text size and change the text color of the link when the mouse is hovered over it?

I have played with:

Linklabel.font = Verdana;

Linklabel.forecolor = red;

Neither seem to work and the color part isn't what I am looking for.

Any help would be much appriciated.

Thanks,

Al

[Harsh Gupta]

If you notice there is a ForeColor property and a LinkColor Property, so if the entire text in linklabel is acting as a link then use LinkColor.

this.linkLabel1.LinkColor = Color.Red;
'Same for Forecolor
this.linkLabel1.ForeColor = Color.Red;

To change the font:

this.linkLabel1.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Verdana",(float)(10.0),FontStyle.Regular);

EDIT: sorry, thought 'twas a VB question!!

[Muller2]

great thanks harsh gupta!

That put me in the correct direction but now I have a further issue. My linklabels are created dynamically using this

public void AddNewLinkLabel()
        {
            LinkLabel aLabel = new LinkLabel();
            this.List.Add(aLabel);
            ((Form1)Form1.ActiveForm).panel1.Controls.Add(aLabel);
            //set linklabel properties
            aLabel.AutoSize = true;
            aLabel.LinkVisited = false;
            aLabel.Visible = true;
            aLabel.Top = 5;
            aLabel.Height = 15;
            aLabel.LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;
            aLabel.LinkBehavior = System.Windows.Forms.LinkBehavior.HoverUnderline;
            //aLabel.Font.FontFamily.Name.
            aLabel.TextAlign = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
            // handler for clicked event of news title label
            aLabel.LinkClicked += new LinkLabelLinkClickedEventHandler(ClickHandler);
            aLabel.MouseMove += new MouseEventHandler(aLabel_MouseMove);
            aLabel.MouseLeave += new EventHandler(aLabel_MouseLeave);
            aLabel.MouseHover += new EventHandler(aLabel_MouseHover);
        }

and I have assigned Event Handlers dynamically which look like this

        private void aLabel_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            aLabel.LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
        }

        private void aLabel_MouseLeave(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            aLabel.LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;
        }

        private void aLabel_MouseHover(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            aLabel.LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
        }

The issue is this won't compile as it can't find a linklabel called aLabel as they don't exist yet, until they are created dynamically.

Is there away to do this to enable it to compile and execute correctly?

Many thanks,

Al

[jmcilhinney]

Whether or not you've created your LinkLabels at run time, the aLabel variable is declared within the AddNewLinkLabel method so it doesn't exist outside of that method. Within an event handler you reference the object that raised the event via the 'sender' argument:

        private void aLabel_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            ((LinkLabel)sender).LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
        }

Then you can use the same method to handle the event for as many different Linklabel's as you like.

[Muller2]

Whether or not you've created your LinkLabels at run time, the aLabel variable is declared within the AddNewLinkLabel method so it doesn't exist outside of that method. Within an event handler you reference the object that raised the event via the 'sender' argument:

        private void aLabel_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            ((LinkLabel)sender).LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
        }

Then you can use the same method to handle the event for as many different Linklabel's as you like.

Great thanks jmcilhinney.

Worked a treat.