Name
SystemPens
Synopsis
This class provides a set of static properties that return
Pen
objects for (almost) all the standard system
colors. Sadly, as some of the system colors were deemed to be
“not for drawing
lines”—InactiveCaption
for
instance—you’ll have to fall back on
SystemColors
and Pen
if you
want to use them in some kind of inverse colors cheme.
Like most of these SystemXXX
classes, although
IDisposable
is implemented, you must not dispose
of the object yourself. The internal implementation caches the pens
in a system table, but only tests for nullness and not whether the
object has been disposed, so you will leave an unpleasant surprise
for the next person to use that pen!
To retrieve a Pen
for one of the web colors, see
Pens
.
public sealed class SystemPens { // Public Static Properties public static Pen ActiveCaptionText{get; } public static Pen Control{get; } public static Pen ControlDark{get; } public static Pen ControlDarkDark{get; } public static Pen ControlLight{get; } public static Pen ControlLightLight{get; } public static Pen ControlText{get; } public static Pen GrayText{get; } public static Pen Highlight{get; } public static Pen HighlightText{get; } public static Pen InactiveCaptionText{get; } public static Pen InfoText{get; } public static Pen MenuText{get; } public static Pen WindowFrame{get; } public static Pen WindowText{get; } // Public Static Methods public static Pen FromSystemColor(Color c); }
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