Re: Drawing a line with a bevel ot sunken effect

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Hi Bob
Thanks for the reply, I ended taking the 2 line approach; however I didn't
know about ContralPaint. What would you suggest?

Thanks again.
Craig

"Bob Powell [MVP]" wrote:

> That's impossible to do with a 1 pixel line. The minimum is two pixels.
>
> You can do your own by drawing rectangles offset from one another by a pixel
> or use the ControlPaint class which has some border drawing routines.
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> "Craig" <Craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to draw a 1px horizontal line that has a sunken/bevel effect.
> > Same style as the seperator lines displayed in a file property dialog
> > (open
> > Windows Explorer, right click a file, select Properties)
> >
> > Fairly new to WinForms, so any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > Craig
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