ComponentOne Input for WinForms
Customizing C1Input's Appearance / Themes
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    In addition to the Visual Styles you can use the C1ThemeController to apply other themes to the C1Input control. You could also create your own theme using the ThemeDesigner.

    To customize the appearance of a C1Input control using Themes, add the C1ThemeController to your component tray and set the Themes property to any of the following predefined styles listed below:

    Theme Name Image
    Office2007Black Office2007Black
    Office2007Blue Office2007Blue
    Office2007Silver Office2007Silver
    Office2010Black 2010_Black
    Office2010Blue 2010_Blue
    Office2010Silver 2010_Silver
    Office2013DarkGray Office2013_DarkGrey
    Office2013LightGray Office2013_LightGrey
    Office2013White Office2013_White
    ExpressionDark Themes_ExpressionDark
    ExpressionLight Themes_ExpressionLight
    GreenHouse Themes_GreenHouse
    RainerOrange Themes_RainierOrange
    ShinyBlue Themes_ShinyBlue
    Violette Themes_Violette
    VS2013Blue Themes_VS2013Blue
    VS2013Dark Themes_VS2013Dark
    VS2013Light Themes_VS2013Light
    VS2013DarkSolar Themes_VS2013DarkSolar
    VS2013Green Themes_VS2013Green
    VS2013Purple Themes_VS2013Purple
    VS2013Red Themes_VS2013Red
    VS2013Tan Themes_VS2013Tan

    How to apply themes to the C1Input controls at Design Time

    To use the C1ThemeController component with any of the C1Input controls, complete the following:

    1. Add any of the C1Input controls, for example C1ComboBox, on the form at design time.

    2. Add the C1ThemeController component to your component tray. The C1ThemeController dialog box appears.

    If you use the C1ThemeController 2.0 component a C1ThemeController dialog box appears. The ThemeController dialog box is used to quickly to apply the theme to all themeable controls in the application, all theme-able controls on the form, or different themes on different controls.

    The C1ThemeController dialog box lists all of the components that appears on your form. If you have themeable controls on your form before you add the C1ThemeController the dialog box lists all of the components on your form. Each control/component is initially set to none to prevent unintentional loss of property settings on those controls.

    1. In the C1ThemeController dialog box click on the Theme dropdown button next to Form1 and c1ComboBox1 and select one of the predefined themes, for example, Violette.

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    1. Click OK to save and close the C1ThemeController dialog box.
    2. Run your project and observe that the Violette theme is applied to your Form and C1Combobox.

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    How to Apply Themes to the C1Input Controls Programatically

    The following code shows how to programatically apply the built-in theme using the RegisterTheme and SetTheme methods:

    To write code in Visual Basic

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    'Register the theme file with the C1ThemeController

    C1.Win.C1Themes.C1ThemeController.RegisterTheme("C:\Users\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\ThemesProject\ShinyBlue.c1theme")

    'Apply it to a control, use the theme name, not the file name

    Me.c1ThemeController1.SetTheme(c1ComboBox1, "ShinyBlue")

    To write code in C#

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    //Register the theme file with the C1ThemeController;


    C1.Win.C1Themes.C1ThemeController.RegisterTheme(@"C:\Users\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\ThemesProject\ShinyBlue.c1theme");


    //Apply it to a control and use the theme name

    this.c1ThemeController1.SetTheme(c1ComboBox1, "ShinyBlue")

    In addition to the predefined themes you can customize your theme using the Themes designer. For more information see the Themes for WinForms documentation.

    See Also
    C1Themes and the VisualStyle Property