SystemPens

System.Drawing.SystemPens

Namespace: System.Drawing

Assembly: System.Drawing.Managed (4.0.0.0)

Each property of the SystemPens class is a Pen that is the color of a Windows display element and that has a width of 1 pixel.

C#

public class SystemPens

VB.NET

Properties

ActiveBorder

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

ActiveCaption

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

ActiveCaptionText

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

AppWorkspace

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of the application workspace.

ButtonFace

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

ButtonHighlight

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

ButtonShadow

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

Control

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

ControlDark

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

ControlDarkDark

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

ControlLight

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

ControlLightLight

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

ControlText

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

Desktop

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of the Windows desktop.

GradientActiveCaption

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

GradientInactiveCaption

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

GrayText

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of dimmed text.

Highlight

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

HighlightText

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

HotTrack

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

InactiveBorder

Pen: Gets a Pen is the color of the border of an inactive window.

InactiveCaption

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of the title bar caption of an inactive window.

InactiveCaptionText

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

Info

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of the background of a ToolTip.

InfoText

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of the text of a ToolTip.

Menu

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

MenuBar

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

MenuHighlight

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

MenuText

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

ScrollBar

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

Window

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

WindowFrame

Pen: Gets a Pen that is the color of a window frame.

WindowText

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

Methods

FromSystemColor(c)

Creates a Pen from the specified Color.

Parameter	Type	Description
c	Color	The Color for the new Pen.

Returns: Pen. The Pen this method creates.