Raised and sunken areas

I was wondering how you create a raised or sunken panel type effect in VB, and if you can use it as a parent contol like a frame.

Borland C++ builder has a contol that is just a square of the same colour as the form (by default) which you can set to raised or sunked, it doesn't really do anything it's just for the appearance of seperation.

I suppose I could just draw it into a control...but, I was wondering if the there was a "Proper" way of doing it.

Cheers

Hi,

I just used 4 line objects and resized them in the user controls resize event

Also used a variable to detect the border style and set line color accordingly:

Border - None
all lines .visible=false

Border - raised
top line .bordercolor=vbhighlight
left line .bordercolor=vbhightlight
bottom line .bordercolor=vbshadow
right line .bordercolor=vbshadow

Border - inset
top line .bordercolor=vbshadow
left line .bordercolor=vbshadow
bottom line .bordercolor=vbhighlight
right line .bordercolor=vbhightlight


Hope it helps

DocZaf
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NOTE:
To use it as a container - set the user controls IsContainer property to true

[Edited by Zaf Khan on 05-28-2000 at 10:18 PM]

Thanks,

I'd never heard of vbShadow before!!

Paul

Sorry,
Its just a variable - hmm maybe thats not the right word

You know
public const vbShadow = &HXXXXXXXXXXX

DocZaf
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Ok am using vb5 sp3....

Look at the SS Panel control that ships with vb. Persumably this is the Sheridon control. Anyway can be used to place a raised panel on a vb form...vaguely remember, (we use another control for a specific requirement), that this control also allows a sunken effect...defaults to raised. :0

Hope it Helps........