SystemPens::Highlight Property

 

Gets a Pen that is the color of the background of selected items.

Namespace:   System.Drawing
Assembly:  System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)

public:
property Pen^ Highlight {
	static Pen^ get();
}

Property Value

Type: System.Drawing::Pen^

A Pen that is the color of the background of selected items.

Selected items may include menu items as well as selected text. For example, the pen may be the color used for the background of selected items in a list box.

The following code example creates points and sizes using several of the overloaded operators defined for these types. It also demonstrates how to use the Highlight property.

This example is designed to be used with Windows Forms. Create a form that contains a Button named subtractButton. Paste the code into the form and call the CreatePointsAndSizes method from the form's Paint event-handling method, passing e as PaintEventArgs.

void CreatePointsAndSizes( PaintEventArgs^ e )
{
   // Create the starting point.
   Point startPoint = Point(subtractButton->Size);

   // Use the addition operator to get the end point.
   Point endPoint = startPoint + System::Drawing::Size( 140, 150 );

   // Draw a line between the points.
   e->Graphics->DrawLine( SystemPens::Highlight, startPoint, endPoint );

   // Convert the starting point to a size and compare it to the
   // subtractButton size.  
   System::Drawing::Size buttonSize = (System::Drawing::Size)startPoint;
   if ( buttonSize == subtractButton->Size )
   {
      e->Graphics->DrawString( "The sizes are equal.", gcnew System::Drawing::Font( this->Font,FontStyle::Italic ), Brushes::Indigo, 10.0F, 65.0F );
   }
}

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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