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TextBox String/Text's Padding For Custom Control


I'm a newbie, and recently I've asked this question, where it taught me to have my best option for TextBox's bottom border, that prevents flickering/tearing - resulted by drawn graphics.

Now my problem is how to have margin/paddings for the text/string inside the textbox, here's the code:

using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace main.Classes.CustomControls {

    class TextBoxMaterial : TextBox {
        public TextBoxMaterial() {
            this.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.None;
            this.Controls.Add(new Label() {
                Height = 2,
                Dock = DockStyle.Bottom,
                BackColor = Color.Gray,
            });
        }
    }
}

Currently textbox:

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What I need to have:

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Solution

  • You can set left padding and right padding for text of TextBox by sending an EM_SETMARGINS. You also can set AutoSize property of the TextBox to false to be able to change the height of control. Here is the result:

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    using System;
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
    using System.Windows.Forms;
    using System.Drawing;
    public class ExTextBox : TextBox
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hwnd, int msg,
            int wParam, int lParam);
        private const int EM_SETMARGINS = 0xd3;
        private const int EC_RIGHTMARGIN = 2;
        private const int EC_LEFTMARGIN = 1;
        private int p = 10;
        public ExTextBox()
            : base()
        {
            var b = new Label { Dock = DockStyle.Bottom, Height = 2, BackColor = Color.Gray };
            var l = new Label { Dock = DockStyle.Left, Width = p, BackColor = Color.White };
            var r = new Label { Dock = DockStyle.Right, Width = p, BackColor = Color.White };
            AutoSize = false;
            Padding = new Padding(0);
            BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.None;
            Controls.AddRange(new Control[] { l, r, b });
        }
        protected override void OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnHandleCreated(e);
            SetMargin();
        }
        private void SetMargin()
        {
            SendMessage(Handle, EM_SETMARGINS, EC_RIGHTMARGIN, p << 16);
            SendMessage(Handle, EM_SETMARGINS, EC_LEFTMARGIN, p);
        }
    }
    

    To know what the role of right label is, try not adding it to the control, then write a long text to TextBox and go to the end of text by arrow keys and again back to the beginning using arrow keys.