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Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Feb 19 23:37:58 PST 2013


On 2013-02-19 21:43, Adam Wilson wrote:

> My point is that I should not have to rebuild a scrollbar from the
> ground up when I want to make it look different. Or button, or textbox,
> or whatever. When I need scrolling functionality I just use a scrollbar
> then style it for the required usage, in many ways this vastly reduces
> improper widget function due to being able to apply a standard
> implementation to a much wider variety of usages, I have ListBoxes in my
> WPF projects that you'd have no idea were just ListBoxes because the
> look nothing like an OS ListBox For example one ListBox I have looks
> more like a TreeView, except that I didn't actually need the TreeView
> capability, I just need to make it LOOK like one. I also usually add
> some useful visuals that the OS widget could never do.

Most in most tool kits you can override a drawing function or specify 
some properties to change to look of a control.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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