SpecialButtons Library

[derez]

Here is a collection of special buttons, some new and some modified.
These are:
1. Circle button - new
2. Ellipse button - new
3. Poligon button - new
4. Rectangle button - new
5. Slide button - existing
6. State button - upgraded

The circle and ellipse buttons came out quite ugly so I added a constructor to eliminate the surrounding line.

The library works for desktop and device and tested on qvga and vga with autoscale compilation.

The package includes dll, cs file, demo program and help file.

Edit: ver. 1.1 includes transparency over images.
ver. 1.2 improves transparency, upgrades SlideButtonb to have graphics like RectangleButton, correct errors.
1.2A - added the forgottemn methods to change colors.
ver 1.3 - FillColor removed from New2
ver 1.4 - SetSliderWidth method added to SlideButton.
ver 1.5 - rounded corners are now set by int - 0 no rounding, 1- slightly, 2- cut.
- A converter program to convert regular buttons to RectangleButtons.
ver 1.61 - enables vertical text on Ellipse, Rectangle and State Buttons, see form4 picture here.

Edit: ver 1.7 corrected mulfunction of mousedown and mouseup events.

Enjoy

[lawrencehamilton]

Very nice. Another great library!!!! And useful too.

[Erel]

Looks great. Thank you for sharing

[derez]

following a tip from Erel I updated the library so the rectangle holding the button is transparent if an image is set as background of a form.

[tremara1]

Hi guys, I have been away for a while and have been getting back into it. This library looks cool and I am keen to try it on my new HTC Touch but I must have missed something in the update to 6.90 as my current ver 6.8 is not handling the dim of the array for poligon. If I comment out the 'as integer' it does not crash (cannot be null value) but the array is not working in the creation of the poligon button. I have probably missed something simple...DOH!!

ps. I will be excited to get my hands on a b4ppc for android....thanks

Trevor
Ballarat Victoria Australia

[tremara1]

I just had a look at the 6.9 'essentials' and see that dim of variables has changed.....update coming soon...thanks
Trevor Smith
Ballarat Victoria Australia

[derez]

Version 1.2 is now loadable at the first post.
I corrected few errors, changed the SlideButton to have graphics like the RectangleButton and improved the transparency of Rectangle, Slide & State Buttons over images.

Please report problems if you see any, I'm sure there are still some.

[derez]

Ver 1.3 is updated.
I removed FillColor from New2, FillColor and EndColor are united.

[derez]

ver 1.4 - SetSliderWidth method added to SlideButton.

[derez]

Ver 1.5 - two levels of rounded corners - 1 is new, 2 is as before. 0 for not rounded at all.

I think it is a stable version and I won't change it unless I hear comments or requests.