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SystemBrushes

Namespace: System.Drawing

Assembly: System.Drawing.Managed (4.0.0.0)

Each property of the SystemBrushes class is a SolidBrush that is the color of a Windows display element.

public class SystemBrushes

Properties

Static member ActiveBorder

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the active window's border.

Static member ActiveCaption

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background of the active window's title bar.

Static member ActiveCaptionText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the text in the active window's title bar.

Static member AppWorkspace

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the application workspace.

Static member ButtonFace

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the face color of a 3-D element.

Static member ButtonHighlight

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the highlight color of a 3-D element.

Static member ButtonShadow

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the shadow color of a 3-D element.

Static member Control

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the face color of a 3-D element.

Static member ControlDark

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the shadow color of a 3-D element.

Static member ControlDarkDark

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the dark shadow color of a 3-D element.

Static member ControlLight

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the light color of a 3-D element.

Static member ControlLightLight

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the highlight color of a 3-D element.

Static member ControlText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of text in a 3-D element.

Static member Desktop

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the desktop.

Static member GradientActiveCaption

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the lightest color in the color gradient of an active window's title bar.

Static member GradientInactiveCaption

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the lightest color in the color gradient of an inactive window's title bar.

Static member GrayText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of dimmed text.

Static member Highlight

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background of selected items.

Static member HighlightText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the text of selected items.

Static member HotTrack

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color used to designate a hot-tracked item.

Static member InactiveBorder

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of an inactive window's border.

Static member InactiveCaption

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background of an inactive window's title bar.

Static member InactiveCaptionText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the text in an inactive window's title bar.

Static member Info

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background of a ToolTip.

Static member InfoText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the text of a ToolTip.

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of a menu's background.

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background of a menu bar.

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color used to highlight menu items when the menu appears as a flat menu.

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of a menu's text.

Static member ScrollBar

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background of a scroll bar.

Static member Window

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the background in the client area of a window.

Static member WindowFrame

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of a window frame.

Static member WindowText

Brush: Gets a SolidBrush that is the color of the text in the client area of a window.

Methods

Static member FromSystemColor(c)

Creates a Brush from the specified Color structure.

ParameterTypeDescription
cColorThe Color structure from which to create the Brush.

Returns: Brush. The Brush this method creates.