Tag Archives: buttons

Make a button display the picture beneath slightly grayed it in C#

Posted on November 1, 2017 by RodStephens

The example Make a button display the picture beneath it in C# shows how to make a button display the picture that lies below it. Unfortunately, the button only adds a border as decoration and the border doesn’t have a … Continue reading →

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Make a button display the picture beneath it in C#

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example makes a button display copies of the picture on which it sits, making it appear that the button is part of the underlying image. The key to this example is the following SetButtonBackground method. // Make the Button … Continue reading →

Make pop buttons in C#

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example produces an interesting visual effect that I call “pop buttons.” The buttons grow and shrink when the mouse moves over them. The technique is remarkably simple and adds some extra interactivity to an otherwise ordinary program. The program’s … Continue reading →

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Use accelerators on labels and buttons in C#

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Rod Stephens

To place an accelerator on a menu item, you put an ampersand in front of the letter in the menu item’s caption that you want to be the accelerator. At run time, the caption is displayed with the accelerator letter … Continue reading →

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Explore the Visual Studio Image Library in C#

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example explains where you can find standard images in the Visual Studio Image Library that you can use in your applications. The example Give transparent backgrounds to images displayed on buttons in C# explains how to make some pixels … Continue reading →

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Make video control buttons in WPF and C#

Posted on October 23, 2015 by RodStephens

I recently wanted some images for video control buttons: play, pause, stop, fast forward, and so forth. I googled around and found lots of nice buttons, but all of the sets I found were missing one or more of the … Continue reading →