Image Viewer Appearance

The ImageViewer class uses the standard Margins, Borders and Padding system to construct the layout and render the view and items.

The following illustration describes the concept:

The view is the accumulative area of all the items plus the value of the view border and padding.

The content of each item is the area inside its border (The gray area in the illustration).

The image viewer layout of the following areas starting from the outermost (Note that Padding is the native padding type of the platform):

Note that all the values above are in pixels and are fixed regardless of the current zoom value.

The following table shows how each area is rendered.

Note in Windows.Forms, the control background color is the value of the System.Windows.Forms.Control.BackColor property of ImageViewer

View Area

The view is the accumulative area of all of the elements listed in the table above accept ImageViewer.ViewMargin:

ImageViewer with padding and margins set and two items. Using a vertical view layout.

ImageViewer uses the view size to calculate the values of the scrollbars. The total size in pixels calculated by the layout system can be obtained through the read-only ImageViewer.ViewSize property. The bounding rectangle (starting position is client area plus the view margin) can be obtained using the read-only ImageViewer.ViewBounds property. These two values are calculated based on the total layout size plus the current view transformation.

The view can be transformed using any of the following:

• By using the scrollbars, updating the ScrollOffset property or using ScrollBy or ScrollByRestrict

• Zooming the view in and out using the Zoom method

• Rotating the view using the RotateAngle property

• Flipping the view vertically using the Flip property

• Mirroring the view horizontally using the Reverse property

All these operations will re-calculate the view (ViewSize and ViewBounds) and update the scrolling area.

The view can be aligned inside the view using ViewHorizontalAlignment and ViewVerticalAlignment.

The ViewDropShadow property can be used to render a drop shadow around the view bounds.

Item Area

• ItemMargin: This is the area outside the item (outside the blue border)

• ItemBorderThickness: The blue area

• Item Content: Gray area

• ItemPadding: Area between the content (inside the border) and the image

Each item has a size, this can either be fixed for all the items in the viewer using the ImageViewer.ItemSize property (when the image viewer is used as an image list for instance). Or each item can have its own item size (ImageViewerItem.Size) that can be either set to a fixed value or calculated automatically by the viewer when an image is set in the item.

The item can be aligned inside the view using ItemHorizontalAlignment and ItemVerticalAlignment.

Inside each item is the content area. This is where the image data and the optional text will be rendered. The image is aligned inside the content using ImageHorizontalAlignment and ImageVerticalAlignment. These values changes the image alignment for all items in the viewer, to set an individual item use image alignment ImageViewerItem.ImageHorizontalAlignment and ImageViewerItem.ImageVerticalAlignment.

If the item contains a text string in the ImageViewerItem.Text property, then the image viewer will render this text using ItemTextFont and ItemTextColor (or SelectedItemTextColor if the item is selected). ItemTextTrimming and ItemTextWrap can optionally be used to control how the text is rendered if its size exceeds the bounding box. TextHorizontalAlignment and TextVerticalAlignment can be used to align the text inside the content. Similar to the image alignment above, to set an individual item text alignment use ImageViewerItem.TextHorizontalAlignment and ImageViewerItem.TextVerticalAlignment.

The ImageViewerItemPart enumeration can be used in methods and properties to donate the part of the item we are interested in.

The ImageDropShadow property can be used to render a drop shadow around the image bounds inside the content.

Drop Shadow

The image supports rendering a drop shadow around the view or around each item image using the following:

Each of these properties is of type ControlDropShadowOptions and has the following members: