ImageViewer Appearance

Summary

The ImageViewer class uses the standard Margins, Borders and Padding system (The CSS Box Model) to construct the layout and render the view and items.

The following illustration describes the concept:

The view is the 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).

Here is the image viewer layout starting from the outermost:

Note: The following layout assumes that the image viewer is not using Elements Mode.

Property	Type	Description
ImageViewer.ViewMargin	ControlPadding	Area between the top left of the viewer client rectangle and the view border.
ImageViewer.ViewBorderThickness	Integer	Thickness of the view border
ImageViewer.ViewPadding	ControlPadding	Area between the view border and the item
ImageViewer.ItemMargin	ControlPadding	Area between the top left of the item and the view padding
ImageViewer.ItemBorderThickness	Integer	Thickness of the item rectangle
ImageViewer.ItemPadding	ControlPadding	Area between the item border and the image
ImageViewer.ImageBorderThickness	Integer	Thickness of the image border
ImageViewer.ItemSpacing	LeadSizeD	Spacing between adjacent items. Only used if there are more than one visible item in the layout

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: The following layout assumes that the image viewer is not using Elements Mode.

Property	Description
ImageViewer.ViewMargin	Control background color
ImageViewer.ViewBorderThickness	ImageViewer.ViewBorderColor
ImageViewer.ViewPadding	Control background color
ImageViewer.ItemMargin	Control background color
ImageViewer.ItemBorderThickness	ImageViewer.ItemBorderColor, ImageViewer.SelectedItemBorderColor, ImageViewer.HoveredItemBorderColor or ImageViewer.ActiveItemBorderColor depending on the item state.
ImageViewer.ItemPadding	ImageViewer.ItemBackgroundColor, ImageViewer.SelectedItemBackgroundColor, ImageViewer.HoveredItemBackgroundColor or ImageViewer.ActiveItemBackgroundColor depending on the item state.
ImageViewer.ImageBorderThickness	ImageViewer.ImageBorderColor

View Area

The view is the area for 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:

Member	Description
ViewDropShadow	The drop shadow property of the view. Will be rendered outside the view border and inside the view margin. Hence, you must ensure that the view margin value is big enough to cover the desired drop shadow size.
ImageDropShadow	The drop shadow property of the item images. Will be rendered outside the image border and inside the item padding. Hence, you must ensure that the item padding value is big enough to cover the desired drop shadow size.

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

Member	Description
IsVisible	Visible of the drop shadow. If this value is not true then the drop shadow will not be rendered
Color	The color of the drop shadow
OffsetX	The position f the horizontal shadow
OffsetY	The position of the vertical shadow
Blur	The blur distance