I may be being more stupid than the offspring of a village idiot and a TV weather girl, but does anyone know if it's possible, and indeed how, to change the expand/collapse icons in the task panel.

 

  We apply custom skins to our controls and I'd like to customise the look.

 

  Thanks,

    John

 

PS Great control :-)

 

http://www.softbotz.com/images/arrows.png - http://www.softbotz.com/images/arrows.png

 

In my implentation I am using the same expand and collapse icons, a bit larger, but they could actually be any image(s) you deisire. I just set the Group Caption to Hidden, but expandable then created a link item with an image that changes on expand and collapse. I have also been able to simulate the exact same look as the current group headers with different buttons using similar techniques. I've found that if it is not built in to the TaskPanel, there are enough things supported that you can make it look and behave any way you want. I've faked many other controls in the TaskPanel, by just using images and sometimes a picturebox here, in some circumstances a custom user control of my own here and there. Done it so much that I now use it more often than attaching other controls. It doesn't mess with the transparency, follows themes well, less dependancies and is just plain easy to do and my customers like it.

 

Now, I just need to learn that Xwhatever stuff and it sounds like the controls can be customized to a state that you would not even recognize them from the original concept.

 

CodeJock...Good stuff and tools I wouldn't be without. Only complaint is I think a couple of the controls are bloated more than they should be, but I have never ran into a user problem that was caused by a codejock component and I have a fairly large user base. Same program for 20 years - of course updated many times. Incorporated some codejock components about three years ago. Nice fit.