Glyph Class
Assembly: System.Design (in system.design.dll)
The sole purpose of a Glyph is to paint and hit test. A Glyph does not have a window handle (HWND), as it is rendered on the adorner window control of the BehaviorService. Each Glyph can have a Behavior associated with it. A successfully hit-tested Glyph has the opportunity to push a new or different Behavior onto the behavior stack of the BehaviorService.
For more information, see Behavior Service Overview.
The following example demonstrates how to create your own Glyph based class with Behavior associated with it. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the BehaviorService class.
Class MyGlyph Inherits Glyph Private control As Control Private behaviorSvc As _ System.Windows.Forms.Design.Behavior.BehaviorService Public Sub New(ByVal behaviorSvc As _ System.Windows.Forms.Design.Behavior.BehaviorService, _ ByVal control As Control) MyBase.New(New MyBehavior()) Me.behaviorSvc = behaviorSvc Me.control = control End Sub Public Overrides ReadOnly Property Bounds() As Rectangle Get ' Create a glyph that is 10x10 and sitting ' in the middle of the control. Glyph coordinates ' are in adorner window coordinates, so we must map ' using the behavior service. Dim edge As Point = behaviorSvc.ControlToAdornerWindow(control) Dim size As Size = control.Size Dim center As New Point(edge.X + size.Width / 2, edge.Y + _ size.Height / 2) Dim bounds1 As New Rectangle(center.X - 5, center.Y - 5, 10, 10) Return bounds1 End Get End Property Public Overrides Function GetHitTest(ByVal p As Point) As Cursor ' GetHitTest is called to see if the point is ' within this glyph. This gives us a chance to decide ' what cursor to show. Returning null from here means ' the mouse pointer is not currently inside of the glyph. ' Returning a valid cursor here indicates the pointer is ' inside the glyph,and also enables our Behavior property ' as the active behavior. If Bounds.Contains(p) Then Return Cursors.Hand End If Return Nothing End Function Public Overrides Sub Paint(ByVal pe As PaintEventArgs) ' Draw our glyph. It is simply a blue ellipse. pe.Graphics.FillEllipse(Brushes.Blue, Bounds) End Sub ' By providing our own behavior we can do something interesting ' when the user clicks or manipulates our glyph. Class MyBehavior Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Design.Behavior.Behavior Public Overrides Function OnMouseUp(ByVal g As Glyph, _ ByVal button As MouseButtons) As Boolean MessageBox.Show("Hey, you clicked the mouse here") Return True ' indicating we processed this event. End Function 'OnMouseUp End Class End Class
System.Windows.Forms.Design.Behavior.Glyph
System.Windows.Forms.Design.Behavior.ComponentGlyph
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
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