Frame color of a textbox?

[Martin 0]

How can I change the Frame color of a textbox?

[CWinThread]

I was wondering the same thing myself, and ended up just changing the BorderStyle to None, and drawing a simple border myself in the parent form/user control with a function like:

private void DrawTextBoxBorder(Graphics g)
{
    Rectangle rectClient = myTextBox.ClientRectangle;
    Rectangle rect = myTextBox.RectangleToScreen(rectClient);
    rect.Offset(-1,-1);
    rect.Width += 1;
    rect.Height += 1;

    Point ptClient = new Point(0,0);
    Point ptScreen = PointToScreen(ptClient);
    rect.Offset(-ptScreen.X, -ptScreen.Y);

    g.DrawRectangle(Pens.SlateGray, rect);
}

[Mohamad Al Husseiny]

Inherit your class from TextBox Overrid OnPaint and set ControlStyle to UserPaint use The Following Class as start

public class TextBoxEx :TextBox
{
private Color borderColor;
public TextBoxEx()
{
	this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint,true);
	this.BorderStyle=BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
	borderColor=Color.Red;

}
public Color BorderColor
{
	get
	{
		return borderColor;
	}
	set
	{
		borderColor=value;
	}
}
protected override void OnBorderStyleChanged(EventArgs e)
{
	this.BorderStyle=BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
	base.OnBorderStyleChanged (e);
}

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
	base.OnPaint (e);
	ControlPaint.DrawBorder
		(e.Graphics,e.ClipRectangle,borderColor,ButtonBorderStyle.Solid);
	
}

MCAD