Class SfForm

Represents a window or dialog box that makes up an application's user interface with options to customize its appearance.

Inheritance

System.Object

SfForm

SfTabbedForm

ColumnChooserPopup

Implements

IThemeProvider

IVisualStyle

Namespace: Syncfusion.WinForms.Controls

Assembly: Syncfusion.Shared.Base.dll

Syntax

public class SfForm : Form, IThemeProvider, IVisualStyle

Constructors

SfForm()

Initializes a new instance of the SfForm class.

Declaration

public SfForm()

Properties

AccessibilityEnabled

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the accessibility is enabled for the Form or not.

Declaration

public bool AccessibilityEnabled { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

AllowRoundedCorners

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the rounded corners are enabled.

Declaration

public bool AllowRoundedCorners { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	The default value is false.

Remarks

This option is only in effect with Windows 11.

BackColor

Gets or sets the back color of the form.

Declaration

public override Color BackColor { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Drawing.Color

CanApplyTheme

Gets or sets a value indicating whether a SkinManager theme style settings can be applied to the control.

Declaration

public bool CanApplyTheme { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	The default value is true.

CanOverrideStyle

Gets or sets a value indicating whether control elements styles can be overridden by theme style settings.

Declaration

public bool CanOverrideStyle { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Default value is false.

Remarks

By default, the control's element styles will not be overridden by theme style settings if the style is set in sample level. If this property is enabled, element style will be overridden by theme style settings event if it is set in sample level. This property should be enabled or disabled before calling the ThemeName property of the control.

CloseButtonVisible

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the close button is displayed in the caption bar of the form.

Declaration

public bool CloseButtonVisible { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	The default value is true.

ForeColor

Gets or sets the fore color of the form.

Declaration

public override Color ForeColor { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Drawing.Color

IconSize

Gets or sets a value indicating the size of the form icon.

Declaration

public Size IconSize { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Drawing.Size

IsVisualStyleEnabled

Gets a value indicating whether the visual style based theme is applied to the control and also indicates whether the theme files are referred from external assemblies or not.

Declaration

public bool IsVisualStyleEnabled { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Return true, if the visual style based theme is applied to the control. Otherwise returns false.

Padding

Gets or sets padding within the form.

Declaration

public Padding Padding { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Windows.Forms.Padding

ShowToolTip

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the tooltip for the title bar button is enabled.

Declaration

public bool ShowToolTip { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	The default value is true.

Style

Gets the FormVisualStyle value used to customize the appearance of the form.

Declaration

public FormVisualStyle Style { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
FormVisualStyle

ThemeName

Gets or sets the theme name of the SfForm.

Declaration

public string ThemeName { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.String

TitleBarHeightMode

Declaration

public CaptionBarHeightMode TitleBarHeightMode { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
CaptionBarHeightMode

TitleBarTextControl

Gets or sets the control to be displayed in the title bar of the form instead of the title bar text.

Declaration

public Control TitleBarTextControl { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Windows.Forms.Control	The default value is null.

Remarks

Form.Text property value will be displayed on the title bar only when this property value is equal to null.

Examples

//Loads a Button control to the title bar of the form.
TitleBarTextControl = new Button();
//Sets the text for the TitleBarTextControl.
TitleBarTextControl.Text = "Control1";

VisualTheme

Gets or sets the visual theme, which holds the ThemeName applied from SkinManager.

Declaration

protected string VisualTheme { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.String

Methods

BeginUpdate()

Suspends the painting of the control until the EndUpdate() method is called.

Declaration

public void BeginUpdate()

Examples

//Call BeginUpdate() to ensure the form is painted only once.
this.BeginUpdate();
//Change the appearance of the form.
this.Style.TitleBar.ForeColor = Color.Red;
this.Style.TitleBar.BackColor = Color.SkyBlue;
//Call EndUpdate() when finish changing the appearance of the form.
this.EndUpdate();

CreateAccessibilityInstance()

Overridden to set the accessibility object for the SfForm.

Declaration

protected override AccessibleObject CreateAccessibilityInstance()

Returns

Type	Description
System.Windows.Forms.AccessibleObject	Returns the accessibility object of the SfForm.

Dispose(Boolean)

Clean up any resources being used.

Declaration

protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Boolean	disposing	true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.

EndUpdate()

Resumes the painting of the control suspended by calling the BeginUpdate() method.

Declaration

public void EndUpdate()

Examples

//Call BeginUpdate() to ensure the form is painted only once.
this.BeginUpdate();
//Change the appearance of the form.
this.Style.TitleBar.ForeColor = Color.Red;
this.Style.TitleBar.BackColor = Color.SkyBlue;
//Call EndUpdate() when finish changing the appearance of the form.
this.EndUpdate();

GetActiveThemeName()

Gets the active theme name of the SfForm.

Declaration

public string GetActiveThemeName()

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	Returns the active theme name.

GetControlName()

Gets the control name.

Declaration

protected virtual string GetControlName()

Returns

Type	Description
System.String

OnHandleCreated(EventArgs)

Occurs when the form handle is created.

Declaration

protected override void OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.EventArgs	e	The System.EventArgs that contains the event data.

OnLoad(EventArgs)

Raises the System.Windows.Forms.Form.Load event.

Declaration

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs args)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.EventArgs	args	Event Arguments.

OnShown(EventArgs)

Raises the System.Windows.Forms.Form.Shown event.

Declaration

protected override void OnShown(EventArgs e)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.EventArgs	e	Event args that contains the event data

SetBoundsCore(Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32, BoundsSpecified)

Set the specified bound for the form.

Declaration

protected override void SetBoundsCore(int x, int y, int width, int height, BoundsSpecified specified)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Int32	x	The Left property value of the form.
System.Int32	y	The Top property value of the form.
System.Int32	width	The Width property value of the form.
System.Int32	height	The Height property value of the form.
System.Windows.Forms.BoundsSpecified	specified	Specifies the bounds of the form.

WndProc(ref Message)

Processes Windows messages.

Declaration

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Windows.Forms.Message	m	Windows message.

Events

ThemeNameChanged

Occurs when theme name of the SfForm has been changed.

Declaration

public event ThemeChangedEventHandler ThemeNameChanged

Event Type

Type	Description
ThemeChangedEventHandler

Explicit Interface Implementations

IVisualStyle.VisualTheme

Gets or sets the VisualTheme of the SfForm.

Declaration

string IVisualStyle.VisualTheme { get; set; }

Returns

Type	Description
System.String

IThemeProvider.BaseThemeName

Gets or sets the base theme name of the SfForm.

Declaration

string IThemeProvider.BaseThemeName { get; set; }

Returns

Type	Description
System.String

IThemeProvider.ControlName

Gets the name of the control.

Declaration

string IThemeProvider.ControlName { get; }

Returns

Type	Description
System.String

Implements

IThemeProvider

IVisualStyle