How to get adxSuperPanel into your
project toolbox?
1. Create a directory, for example C:\MyAdxControl
. Place adxSuperPanel.DLL in the directory.
2. Start your Visual Studio IDE.
3. In your Visual Studio project, right
click on the Windows Forms Toolbox. Click Add/Remove Items...
4. Click "Browse" and point to the
directory where adxSuperPanel.DLL resides and double click. Once you close,
you will find adxSuperPanel and PropProvider in the toolbox.
When you drop adxSuperPanel©:
on your form you get a plain panel with default Transparent BackColor,
with a yellow dashed border.
You may drop now child
controls onto the panel client area. You may change the Text property to
something more meaningful. You may change the color of the border using
the ControlBorderColor property. This is a
design time image
Now you can place some text
in the tags of the child controls. You will see the text as label titles
on the top left corner of the child controls
You have now four child
controls with titles. You have completed the most important part of the
work. The rest is just commentary. Lets apply a background image in
GrayScale, set BackImageIntensity to 21 and image
Transparency to 20:
You may modify the background by
adding a gradient on the control, also add a border of one pixel.
Now you can experiment with other
properties to achieve your desired results.
.NET 2005 Changes:
Design time changes make it easy to handle the control.
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