Question

.NET newbie here… I’d like to make a button in a Windows form that displays a progress or ‘cooldown’ effect. That is, when the button is pressed, it becomes disabled. As some event or timer is progressing, the button shows the progress graphically. When the progress is finished, the graphic completes and the button becomes enabled. Similar effects can be seen in many games.

I’d considered using a combination of the built in Button class, and the GDI+ DrawPath function, but the complexity scales poorly, and I get the nagging feeling that there must be an easier way.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

If you really need to have it on the button, I’d go with a custom paint event.

something similar to:

button += new buttonPaintEvent(buttonPaintEventHandlerMethod);