I want to make my application look more like a native app than a .NET app and I use .NET because of Visual Designer and C#.
I've seen some native apps using a toolbar that looks very similar to Vista/7 menus.
Check out the example:
Some native apps like Notepad++, Codeblocks, etc. uses the same Vista/7 style for toolbars. How can I do the same in C#? I know P/Invoke, so, I need to know the methods to be used or an example.
I don't use ToolBarStrip, I use ToolBar because of the nativeness. What P/Invoke can I use for make the Toolbar look like the above image (Vista/7 look)?
EDIT: Based on this question, I need to do the same in P/Invoke instead of Win32.
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Notepad++ uses both versions of the native toolbar controls in its source code. I'd assume it chooses between the two based on the Windows version. You already tried the .NET wrapper for the legacy one (ToolBar class) so that's probably not the one you like.
The other one is the more recent Rebar control, also known as "Coolbar". Beware that its look-and-feel depends on the Windows version so don't go off the (dated) screenshots in the linked MSDN article. There is no official .NET wrapper for it, but programmers has written some. There is a Codeproject.com project that proposes one, I don't normally recommend any such projects but you sound quite capable of getting the bugs out.
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I see that the windows vista toolbar has fade settings applied which is easier to do with brushes in Xaml.
However here is a downloadable theme in codeproject that you can reference on how it is done there.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18858/Fully-themed-Windows-Vista-Controls
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there is high possibility that those programs are using some sort of different UI framework. One of the ways of doing it would be: 1. Removing border 2. Drawing custom border on the inside 3. Adding custom grip
Here is my library, this snippet has grip code, feel free to use it.(whole lib if you wanna :) ) Also, there is demo app too!
code of that snippet:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; public class Form_WOC : Form { public enum LinePositions { TOP, BOTTOM, LEFT, RIGHT } private Rectangle TopGrip { get { return new Rectangle(0, 0, this.ClientSize.Width, _gripSize); } } private Rectangle LeftGrip { get { return new Rectangle(0, 0, _gripSize, this.ClientSize.Height); } } private Rectangle BottomGrip { get { return new Rectangle(0, this.ClientSize.Height - _gripSize, this.ClientSize.Width, _gripSize); } } private Rectangle RightGrip { get { return new Rectangle(this.ClientSize.Width - _gripSize, 0, _gripSize, this.ClientSize.Height); } } private Rectangle TopLeftGrip { get { return new Rectangle(0, 0, _gripSize, _gripSize); } } private Rectangle TopRightGrip { get { return new Rectangle(this.ClientSize.Width - _gripSize, 0, _gripSize, _gripSize); } } private Rectangle BottomLeftGrip { get { return new Rectangle(0, this.ClientSize.Height - _gripSize, _gripSize, _gripSize); } } private Rectangle BottomRightGrip { get { return new Rectangle(this.ClientSize.Width - _gripSize, this.ClientSize.Height - _gripSize, _gripSize, _gripSize); } } private List<Line> _lines = new List<Line>(); private int _gripSize = 10; private const int HTLEFT = 10, HTRIGHT = 11, HTTOP = 12, HTTOPLEFT = 13, HTTOPRIGHT = 14, HTBOTTOM = 15, HTBOTTOMLEFT = 16, HTBOTTOMRIGHT = 17; protected override void WndProc(ref Message message) { base.WndProc(ref message); if (message.Msg == 0x84) // WM_NCHITTEST { var cursor = this.PointToClient(Cursor.Position); if (TopLeftGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTTOPLEFT; else if (TopRightGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTTOPRIGHT; else if (BottomLeftGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTBOTTOMLEFT; else if (BottomRightGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTBOTTOMRIGHT; else if (TopGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTTOP; else if (LeftGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTLEFT; else if (RightGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTRIGHT; else if (BottomGrip.Contains(cursor)) message.Result = (IntPtr)HTBOTTOM; } } public void drawLine(LinePositions pos, Color color, int point1, int point2) { _lines.Add(new Line(pos, color, point1, point2)); } public void clearLines() { _lines.Clear(); } protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { base.OnPaint(e); Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Red, 10); foreach (Line line in _lines) { pen.Color = line.Color; if (line.LinePosition == LinePositions.BOTTOM) e.Graphics.DrawLine(pen, line.X1, Height, line.X2, Height); else if (line.LinePosition == LinePositions.TOP) e.Graphics.DrawLine(pen, line.X1, 0, line.X2, 0); else if (line.LinePosition == LinePositions.RIGHT) e.Graphics.DrawLine(pen, Width, line.Y1, Width, line.Y2); else e.Graphics.DrawLine(pen, 0, line.Y1, 0, line.Y2); } } public int GripSize { get { return _gripSize; } set { _gripSize = value; } } class Line { private int _x1; private int _x2; private int _y1; private int _y2; private Color _color; private LinePositions _positon; public Line(LinePositions position, Color color, int point1, int point2) { if (position == LinePositions.TOP || position == LinePositions.BOTTOM) { _x1 = point1; _x2 = point2; } else { _y1 = point1; _y2 = point2; } _color = color; _positon = position; } public Color Color { get { return _color; } } public int X1 { get { return _x1; } } public int X2 { get { return _x2; } } public int Y1 { get { return _y1; } } public int Y2 { get { return _y2; } } public LinePositions LinePosition { get { return _positon; } } } } 
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