January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 48m
English
Content preview from .NET Windows® Forms Custom Controls
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Design
Designing and building the ImageListView control appears to be harder than it actually is. The goal of the ImageListView control is to mimic the basic look and feel of the list of images hosted within the Outlook shortcut bar. These images include the Inbox, Today, Calendar, and Notes images, to name a few. Figure 9.1 shows our ImageListView control at both design-time (on the left) and runtime (on the right).
Figure 9.1. The ImageListView control.
The ImageListView control supports the following features:
Large images (32×32)
Small images (16×16)
Scrolling
Hover effect
Scrolling support is provided by “faking” a set of scroll-like buttons ...