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vb.net Can the look of the scrollbar be changed in the Datagrid?

Asked by: edfrazier

I have a fairly colorful application, but when my datagrid displays the scrollbar and it's gray, it becomes ugly.  Is there a way to add color or something to it????

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2003-09-17 at 16:38:15ID20741886
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Answers

 

by: mondayblueboyPosted on 2003-09-17 at 20:42:31ID: 9383630

You can use css?

.background
{
scrollbar-face-color:#ffffff;
scrollbar-track-color:#ffffff;
scrollbar-arrow-color:#ff6600;
scrollbar-shadow-color:#ff6600;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#ffffff;
scrollbar-highlight-color:#ff6600;
}

Or

datagrid.Attributes.Add( "Style","scrollbar-face-color:#ffffff;scrollbar-track-color:#ffffff;scrollbar-arrow-color:#ff6600;scrollbar-shadow-color:#ff6600;scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#ffffff;scrollbar-highlight-color:#ff6600")

Hope this helps
Cheers!

 

by: edfrazierPosted on 2003-09-18 at 06:24:10ID: 9386016

I'm sorry, I failed to mention it's a windows application.  This didn't work :(

 

by: morphinexPosted on 2003-09-18 at 09:53:55ID: 9387721

edfrazier,

It'd be reallllly difficult to change the color for the scrollbars.  After quite a bit of research, here's what I've found out.  I don't know if what I'd be saying are even half truth, but I'm about to give up on the search.

Scrollbar's color aren't meant to change from the window's theme setting.  You could attach the scrollbar's color to the systemcolors.scrollbar, and on systemcolor change, fire the event to change the scrollbar's color.  But that requires overriding the scrollbar event class.

In order to even access the datagrid's scrollbar to tinker with them, you'd have to inherit the datagrid and pull out the scrollbar objects.  But as far as I know, you cannot override the scrollbar setting within the datagrid override and then attach it -- since the signature becomes different.  

For example... let's say you are successful in creating a customized scrollbar inherited from scrollbar class.  Since its a child object with differenet signature, it'd throw you an error if you try to replace the datagrid's scroll bar with the new customized scrollbar.  

So to do what you are asking, you would have to rebuilt the class DataGrid that utilizes your customized scrollbars.  Since its a readonly property, I'm not so sure how you would be able to do that.  You might have to disable the existing scrollbar property within the DataGrid and add in your own customized scrollbar and reconfigure the event handling like scrolling, clicking, resizing, etc...

Or, you could override the OnPaint/Paint function for the DataGrid, find out what events lead up to the painting of the scrollbar... modify those events by customizing the paint, and see how it goes from there.  To do that though, you'd have to find out the signature for each of the control graphics within the datagrid.

All in all, I think it'd be difficult to do.  Here're a couple links you can look up

-- This link shows you how to change the scrollbar, but since it's overriding scrollbar, you probably won't be able to replace the reference to your customized scrollbar.. but it's a start
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/10/52532.aspx

-- This links tells you that you CAN change the color, but... I'm not having any success
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/10/51019.aspx

 

by: morphinexPosted on 2003-09-18 at 10:12:39ID: 9387880

Oh yeah, forgot to include this site..

http://24.199.8.122/DefaultPage.aspx

If you goto their download page, and grab the Demo download... it includes the .DLL which you could add into your project.  In it, contains ScrollBarEX that have fully colorable scrollbars.  
They even have gradients on those scrollbars!

But I can't figure how to use these scrollbars in the datagrid... if anyone knows how, please post!

Thanks =)

 

by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2003-12-30 at 08:17:01ID: 10016754

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