Background color property

Quick question. Is there a way to change the background color of the ButtonBar and/or NavigationBar? When I set the BackgroundColor property to a different color, it continues to use the default "Control" gray color. Simple question, I'm sure, but thought I'd ask.

Thank you!

Just wanted to clarify that I can't get the BackgroundColor to work on Navisight.

Thanks!

It looks like this is a bug in the Navisite controls. You should submit this to the "Bug Report" form if you haven't already.

Sounds good. Thanks for the reply. I just assumed there was something I was missing to not get it to work. I'll submit it.

Thanks!

The background colour of navigation panes is determined by the renderer you are using. The Office 2002 and 2003 renderers take the standard 3D button colour and make it a little brighter, and the Office 2000 renderer uses a dark application workspace colour by default.

If you need to change this colour you currently have to override your renderer's PaintCategoryBackground method.

I too would like to just change the backcolor of navisight control (buttonBar1) to Application Window (white). I'm very confused about how to do this. I'm trying to override the paint method mentioned but I can't work out what to do. It seems like a lot of effort just to change the backcolor. If the backcolor is not settable why not hide it from the propertygrid (attribute browseable = false)? Same with BackgroundImage property...

Can anyone -please- show me how to set the backcolor to white in C#?

Very confused.

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Forms;

using Divelements.Navisight;

namespace CustomOffice2003Renderer
{
public class CustomOffice2003Renderer: Divelements.Navisight.Rendering.Office2003Renderer
{
public override void PaintBackground(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds)
{
SolidBrush background = new SolidBrush(Color.White);
graphics.FillRectangle(background, bounds);
base.PaintBackground (graphics, bounds);
background.Dispose();
}

public override void PaintCategoryBackground(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds)
{
SolidBrush background = new SolidBrush(Color.White);
graphics.FillRectangle(background, bounds);
base.PaintCategoryBackground (graphics, bounds);
background.Dispose();
}
}
}


I'm calling it like this:

this.TaskItemsButtonBar.Renderer = new CustomOffice2003Renderer();

Now using:

public override void PaintBackground(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds)
{
graphics.Clear(SystemColors.Window);
}

public override void PaintCategoryBackground(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds)
{
graphics.Clear(SystemColors.Window);
}

In replace of the background brush in the previous post. This seems to work properly.

Thanks anyway guys.