Question

I have a button and inside my button I have an image control. When the users click on the image I’d like to animate the button so it appears the button was pressed. I don’t really care whether the actual button press event fires or not–it’s the illusion of a button press I want to see.

Note: the only options I see on the web involve writing directly to the Windows API–a level of complexity and non-upgradability I really don’t want to get into.

Answer 1

I ended up making my picturbox look like a button by giving it a raised border style. Then on the mouseclick event I simulate the look of a button press by changing the border style for a few hundred miliseconds.

Private Sub simulateButtonPress(ByRef pictureBox As Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors.UltraPictureBox)
    pictureBox.BorderStyle = Infragistics.Win.UIElementBorderStyle.Inset
    Application.DoEvents()
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(400)
    pictureBox.BorderStyle = Infragistics.Win.UIElementBorderStyle.Raised
    Application.DoEvents()
End Sub