Based on the generic Decorator design-pattern our Decorators are extremely useful controls enabling you not only to experience all of the predefined components that ship with the library but to create and decorate your own custom ones with ease. Modern effects like Glass, Gel, Vista are a piece of cake to produce with our decorators. And yet another unique feature is the support for shadow - either solid or linear blur. All fill, stroke and shadow information is grouped by objects so that you can customize the look-and-feel of your application using only the Windows Forms Designer.

The settings that control the filling of a NDecorator are grouped by a NFillInfo object, member of the control. As well as the default gradient filling you may specify an extended ones like Glass and Gel and even a segmented image or texture.

The flexible model allows you to use a NFillInfo for your own rendering methods:

//create a NFillInfo object
NFillInfo info = new NFillInfo();
info.GradientStyle = GradientStyle.Vista;

Brush brush = info.CreateBrush(myBounds, 0, RoundingEdges.None);

myGraphics.FillRectangle(brush, myBounds);

'create a NFillInfo object
Dim info As NFillInfo = New NFillInfo()
info.GradientStyle = GradientStyle.Vista

Dim brush As Brush = info.CreateBrush(myBounds, 0, RoundingEdges.None)

myGraphics.FillRectangle(brush, myBounds)