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Harlan Brown
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can controls inherit styleset from parent controls
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Hi,

I would like to make several stylesets for different areas in my applicaton so they will look different from each other.

For example I want want my buttons, labels, and textboxes to have a light blue background color in one area of my application.

In a different area, I would like my buttons, labels, and textboxes to have a light green background color.

I would like to make a style set for the blue background color controls and a different styleset for the green background color controls.

If I specifically set the StyleSetName property on each of the controls, I can get the affect I want.

However, i would like to have a panel that all the controls are placed on, and set the StyleSetName property of the panel to the styleset I want to use.

It is my hope that the controls that I placed on the panel will inherit the styleset that I set on the panel. That way I only have to set the styleset once for the panel and not for every control.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

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    Hi Harlan,

    This cannot be done automatically. There are two main ways you could solve this:

    1) You could write a routine that would modify the StyleSetName for the parent control and any of its children.
    2) You could extend the Panel class, adding a property that would manage the StyleSetName for each of the children.

    Please let me know if either method works for you.

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