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Custom Shapes

To create a custom shape you need to inherit the ElementShape class and override the CreatePath method. In it you should create and return the shape path. For example the following code creates a cross shape.

public class CrossShape : ElementShape
{
    public CrossShape()
    {
        this.Width = 20;
    }
    public override GraphicsPath CreatePath(Rectangle bounds)
    {
        GraphicsPath path = new GraphicsPath();
        path.AddRectangle(new RectangleF(bounds.X, (bounds.Y + bounds.Height / 2) - Width / 2, bounds.Width, Width));
        path.AddRectangle(new RectangleF((bounds.X + bounds.Width / 2) - Width / 2, bounds.Y, Width, bounds.Height));
        path.CloseFigure();
        return path;
    }
    public int Width { get; set; }
}

Public Class CrossShape
    Inherits ElementShape
    Public Sub New()
        Me.Width = 20
    End Sub
    Public Overrides Function CreatePath(ByVal bounds As Rectangle) As GraphicsPath
        Dim path As New GraphicsPath()
        path.AddRectangle(New RectangleF(bounds.X, (bounds.Y + bounds.Height \ 2) - Width \ 2, bounds.Width, Width))
        path.AddRectangle(New RectangleF((bounds.X + bounds.Width \ 2) - Width \ 2, bounds.Y, Width, bounds.Height))
        path.CloseFigure()
        Return path
    End Function
    Public Property Width() As Integer
End Class

Figure 1 shows the result from the above code. the shape is applied to a RadPanel.

Figure 1: The cross shape.

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