How to manage colors of Office 2007 style

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How to manage colors of Office 2007 style

The control can assume the appearance of a Office 2007 style button by setting its Surface property to SURFACE_OFFICE_2007.

The Office 2007 style carries new dedicated colors which replace the default colors set through the BackColor property (with the exception of the outer border drawn when the SpecialEffect property is set to a value different from SPECIAL_EFFECT_NONE).

Office 2007 buttons are rendered through the use of 2 vertical linear gradients, each of them made up of 2 colors: the first gradient is set on the North side of the button and the second one is set on the South side of the button. If needed, an optional color can be applied to the 2 existing borders.

Depending upon the button state, all predefined colors may be changed; below a summary of colors applied (with involved properties) in various button states:

Normal

Office2007ColorNorthTop

Office2007ColorNorthBottom

Office2007ColorSouthTop

Office2007ColorSouthBottom

Office2007ColorInnerBorder (if left undefined, the border will not be rendered)

Office2007ColorOuterBorder (if left undefined, the border will not be rendered)

Pressed

Office2007ColorNorthTopPressed

Office2007ColorNorthBottomPressed

Office2007ColorSouthTopPressed

Office2007ColorSouthBottomPressed

Office2007ColorInnerBorderPressed (if left undefined, the border will not be rendered)

Office2007ColorOuterBorderPressed (if left undefined, the border will not be rendered)

Mouse over

Office2007ColorNorthTopMouseOver

Office2007ColorNorthBottomMouseOver

Office2007ColorSouthTopMouseOver

Office2007ColorSouthBottomMouseOver

Office2007ColorInnerBorderMouseOver (if left undefined, the border will not be rendered)

Office2007ColorOuterBorderMouseOver (if left undefined, the border will not be rendered)

Each of the borders width, expressed in pixels, can be modified through the Office2007InnerBorderWidth and Office2007OuterBorderWidth properties.

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