customised buttons

You could completely skip the usage of a Form Button and instead make your own by detecting Mouse -down/-click in the form. Like: private void Form_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { if(m_Button.CheckHit(this, e) == true) { ...do whatever... } } and keep the actual check in a class: class Button { public bool CheckHit(Form form, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { if( (e.X > m_Location.X) && ( e.X < (m_Location.X + m_ButtonBitmap.Width))) { if((e.Y > m_Location.Y) && (e.Y < (m_Location.Y + m_ButtonBitmap.Height))) { m_bFired = true ; return true; } } return false; } where m_Location is a Point defining the (X,Y)-position of your Button in the form. Of course, you can make your buttons with transparent backgrounds and make the corners round, but this check just checks the bitmap rectangle. Hope this helps.

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scyphe66622y ago
You could completely skip the usage of a Form Button and instead make your own by detecting Mouse -down/-click in the form. Like: private void Form_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { if(m_Button.CheckHit(this, e) == true) { ...do whatever... } } and keep the actual check in a class: class Button { public bool CheckHit(Form form, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { if( (e.X > m_Location.X) && ( e.X < (m_Location.X + m_ButtonBitmap.Width))) { if((e.Y > m_Location.Y) && (e.Y < (m_Location.Y + m_ButtonBitmap.Height))) { m_bFired = true ; return true; } } return false; } where m_Location is a Point defining the (X,Y)-position of your Button in the form. Of course, you can make your buttons with transparent backgrounds and make the corners round, but this check just checks the bitmap rectangle. Hope this helps.
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kovan22y ago
dig through GDI+ or if you want to get real fancy, search google for "round winforms in c#"
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