When you create a new instance of a form which has a GradientFormHeader I have found no way to access the GradientFormHeader properties like Title and DetailText pretty much like we can do with a BrowserDialog.HeaderTitle, I would like to be able to do this:

Can this be done now, or will this fall into an Enhancement Request?

Thanks!

Edhy Rijo

What I've done is just expose those properties via public properties of the form:







The other option would be to make the gradient header public, using the Modifier property:







Then you could use code like:







I don't see any way for SF to know how you'd compose your forms to automatically provide this sort of functionality though. Fortunately it's not hard to get working though!

Thanks Greg,

That is exactly what I needed, they both work fine.  I choose to create the custom properties since that will make more sense to set at the form level like f.Title instead of f.GradientFormHeader.Title.

Edhy Rijo

Glad it worked. My preference in a situation like this would be the custom properties too....but I like choice

This will work, but I might suggest creating properties to expose the title, etc. instead of just exposing the object.  Technically this violates encapsulation and if you were to rename the gradient form header, all of your programs would break.  But if you had a property on your base form called Title, or HeaderImage, then it would only be a matter of changing this in the base form versus every program in your app that has referenced this object.  Just a thought and recommendation.

Thank you Trent, got it!

Edhy Rijo