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Image Viewer Appearance

The ImageViewer class uses the standard Margins, Borders and Padding system to construct the layout and render the view and items.

The following illustration describes the concept:

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The view is the accumulative area of all the items plus the value of the view border and padding.

The content of each item is the area inside its border (The gray area in the illustration).

The image viewer layout of the following areas starting from the outermost (Note that Padding is the native padding type of the platform):

Property Type Description
ImageViewer.BorderStyle Platform BorderStyle

This is a standard platform BorderStyle and does not participate in the layout calculation since it lays outside the client area of the viewer.

ImageViewer.ViewMargin Padding

Area between the top left of the viewer client rectangle and the view border.

ImageViewer.ViewBorderThickness Integer

Thickness of the view border

ImageViewer.ViewPadding Padding

Area between the view border and the item

ImageViewer.ItemMargin Padding

Area between the top left of the item and the view padding

ImageViewer.ItemBorderThickness Integer

Thickness of the item rectangle

ImageViewer.ItemPadding Padding

Area between the item border and the image

ImageViewer.ImageBorderThickness Integer

Thickness of the image border

ImageViewer.ItemSpacing LeadSize

Spacing between adjacent items. Only used if there are more than one visible item in the layout

Note that all the values above are in pixels and are fixed regardless of the current zoom value.

The following table shows how each area is rendered.

Note in Windows.Forms, the control background color is the value of the System.Windows.Forms.Control.BackColor property of ImageViewer

Property Description
ImageViewer.ViewMargin

Control background color

ImageViewer.ViewBorderThickness

ImageViewer.ViewBorderColor

ImageViewer.ViewPadding

Control background color

ImageViewer.ItemMargin

Control background color

ImageViewer.ItemBorderThickness

ImageViewer.ItemBorderColor, ImageViewer.SelectedItemBorderColor, ImageViewer.HoveredItemBorderColor or ImageViewer.ActiveItemBorderColor depending on the item state.

ImageViewer.ItemPadding

ImageViewer.ItemBackgroundColor, ImageViewer.SelectedItemBackgroundColor, ImageViewer.HoveredItemBackgroundColor or ImageViewer.ActiveItemBackgroundColor depending on the item state.

ImageViewer.ImageBorderThickness

ImageViewer.ImageBorderColor

View Area

The view is the accumulative area of all of the elements listed in the table above accept ImageViewer.ViewMargin:

viewbounds.png

ImageViewer with padding and margins set and two items. Using a vertical view layout.

ImageViewer uses the view size to calculate the values of the scrollbars. The total size in pixels calculated by the layout system can be obtained through the read-only ImageViewer.ViewSize property. The bounding rectangle (starting position is client area plus the view margin) can be obtained using the read-only ImageViewer.ViewBounds property. These two values are calculated based on the total layout size plus the current view transformation.

The view can be transformed using any of the following:

All these operations will re-calculate the view (ViewSize and ViewBounds) and update the scrolling area.

The view can be aligned inside the view using ViewHorizontalAlignment and ViewVerticalAlignment.

The ViewDropShadow property can be used to render a drop shadow around the view bounds.

Item Area

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Each item has a size, this can either be fixed for all the items in the viewer using the ImageViewer.ItemSize property (when the image viewer is used as an image list for instance). Or each item can have its own item size (ImageViewerItem.Size) that can be either set to a fixed value or calculated automatically by the viewer when an image is set in the item.

The item can be aligned inside the view using ItemHorizontalAlignment and ItemVerticalAlignment.

Inside each item is the content area. This is where the image data and the optional text will be rendered. The image is aligned inside the content using ImageHorizontalAlignment and ImageVerticalAlignment. These values changes the image alignment for all items in the viewer, to set an individual item use image alignment ImageViewerItem.ImageHorizontalAlignment and ImageViewerItem.ImageVerticalAlignment.

If the item contains a text string in the ImageViewerItem.Text property, then the image viewer will render this text using ItemTextFont and ItemTextColor (or SelectedItemTextColor if the item is selected). ItemTextTrimming and ItemTextWrap can optionally be used to control how the text is rendered if its size exceeds the bounding box. TextHorizontalAlignment and TextVerticalAlignment can be used to align the text inside the content. Similar to the image alignment above, to set an individual item text alignment use ImageViewerItem.TextHorizontalAlignment and ImageViewerItem.TextVerticalAlignment.

The ImageViewerItemPart enumeration can be used in methods and properties to donate the part of the item we are interested in.

The ImageDropShadow property can be used to render a drop shadow around the image bounds inside the content.

Drop Shadow

The image supports rendering a drop shadow around the view or around each item image using the following:

Member Description
ViewDropShadow

The drop shadow property of the view. Will be rendered outside the view border and inside the view margin. Hence, you must ensure that the view margin value is big enough to cover the desired drop shadow size.

ImageDropShadow

The drop shadow property of the item images. Will be rendered outside the image border and inside the item padding. Hence, you must ensure that the item padding value is big enough to cover the desired drop shadow size.

Each of these properties is of type ControlDropShadowOptions and has the following members:

Member Description
IsVisible

Visible of the drop shadow. If this value is not true then the drop shadow will not be rendered

Color

The color of the drop shadow

OffsetX

The position f the horizontal shadow

OffsetY

The position of the vertical shadow

Blur

The blur distance

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