Vista - Draw a LINE on a TABCONTROL???

Can someone spell out for me how in VB.NET I would draw a line across
a TablControl Page?

Thanks in advance.

> Can someone spell out for me how in VB.NET I would draw a line acrossIt was hard for me to draw this line, this is the solution:

(1) Mainly requires to draw the whole control

public partial class TabControlWithLine : TabControl
{
public TabControlWithLine()
{
InitializeComponent();
SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint |
ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer | ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw |
ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);
}

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
base.OnPaint(e);
Graphics graphics = e.Graphics;
graphics.Clear(Color.White);
Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Black, 2);
graphics.DrawLine(pen, new Point(Width, 0), new Point(0, Height));
}
}

(2) Propably will be not enough for you

private void tabControl1_DrawItem(object sender,
System.Windows.Forms.DrawItemEventArgs e)
{
SolidBrush FillBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Red);
Rectangle ItemRect = tabControl1.GetTabRect(e.Index);
Graphics graphics = e.Graphics;
graphics.FillRectangle(FillBrush, ItemRect);
Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Black, 2);
graphics.DrawLine(pen, new Point(ItemRect.Left, ItemRect.Bottom), new
Point(ItemRect.Right, ItemRect.Top));
}

As far as I know this control is painted by windows so there is not much we
can do about the painting.
Finally the website: http://dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrol.htm

Dawid Rutyna

On 12/03/2009 in message <gpbijo$es7$1@xxxxxx> Dawid Rutyna wrote:
[snipped]

You can sometimes get away with putting a label on a control and reducing
its height to 1 or 2 pixels. Makes a reasonable low resource line.

--
Jeff Gaines
Damerham Hampshire UK