Border Color in Label Controls

[nakracreative]

Is it possible to Have a border color in a label control in vb.net? If yes, then please explain it to me or suggest me some better idea of diaplaying aborder color in a label control. Anyone out there please help me out.

 

[Pace]

No is the short answer there.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

you can make your own user control that inherits the windows.forms.label and then add a border complete with multiple colors and whatnot

 

[kulrom]

All you have to do is to override onPaint event. However if you want to use such label in other projects as well then I suppose you should follow JuggaloBrotha's suggestion and make a user control


However, as I said you need to override OnPaint (say you want a label with red colour border:
i.e.

 [/COLOR]
[FONT=Verdana][COLOR=blue][FONT='Courier New']Public[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT='Courier New'] [COLOR=blue]Class[/COLOR] MyLabel[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]        [COLOR=blue]Inherits[/COLOR] Label[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]        [COLOR=blue]Protected[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Overrides[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Sub[/COLOR] OnPaint([COLOR=blue]ByVal[/COLOR] e [COLOR=blue]As[/COLOR] PaintEventArgs)[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]            [COLOR=blue]MyBase[/COLOR].OnPaint(e)[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]            ControlPaint.DrawBorder(e.Graphics, e.ClipRectangle, Color.Red, 1, _[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]            ButtonBorderStyle.Solid, Color.Red, 1, ButtonBorderStyle.Solid, Color.Red, 1, _[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]            ButtonBorderStyle.Solid, Color.Red, 1, ButtonBorderStyle.Solid)[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]        [COLOR=blue]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Sub[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana][FONT='Courier New']    [COLOR=blue]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Class[/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=black]

[/FONT]

Then you must declare and instantiate the class myLabel … say you want to draw a label on load event:

[B][/FONT][/COLOR][/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana][COLOR=blue][FONT='Courier New']Dim[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT='Courier New'] myLabel [COLOR=blue]As[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]New[/COLOR] MyLabel[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]myLabel.Location = [COLOR=blue]New[/COLOR] Point(20, 20)[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]myLabel.Width = 150[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]myLabel.Height = 20[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]myLabel.TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]myLabel.Text = "Change border color"[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana][COLOR=blue][FONT='Courier New']Me[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT='Courier New'].Controls.Add(myLabel)[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT='Courier New'][FONT=Verdana]

HTH
Regards

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

to expand on kulrom's post

if you make the border-colored label control you'll want to add properties like:
BorderThickness
BorderColor
BorderEnabled

 

[kulrom]

Yeah you can do a lot fancy things there ...