windows form drop shadow??

[gorgor]

I have a windows form that I'm trying to give a drop shadow using .NET. I've tried a million things with regions, opacity, transparencykey's, brushes, pens, bitmaps, etc. I haven't been able to get anything to work.

Anyone have any insight how to give a windows form a drop shadow? (Much like you would see from a tooltip in XP's windows explorer)

 

[SteveBrett]

have a look at

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/balloonwindow.asp

look at ShadowedWindow.cs which explains how to do it.

BTW the Balloon window class is superb for more advance tool tips ...

Steve

 

[gorgor]

Thanks for the link. The method I came up with for rendering shadowed forms looks pretty much the same as theirs. Looks like using 2 windows overlapped is about the only way to do it with any consistency. I'm going to follow up with another thread because I have one thing that I'm still hung up on.

Thanks again!

 

[prilling]

If I can add something. One thing that I have been experimenting with on the BalloonWindow library is using the built-in shadow capabilities of the OS, as well as the overlapping windows.

If your application will be running on a version XP or greater, you could also use the CS_DROPSHADOW style in your application. It has been a while since I experimented, but you can override the CreateParams method of your form to provide this style for when it renders.

 

[gorgor]

Thanks! I'll look into it.