Naxos UIComponents container controls has the ability to reduce the DesplayRectangle size in accordance with Caption's size, Text's size and Border's size. In the images below, the control's background border thickness is set to 8, so the use of AdjustDisplayRectangle property is more noticeable.

• Use AdjustDisplayRectangle property to exclude or include captions, texts and border areas from docking of the contained controls.
• For use with VS2003, grid is visible according the DisplayRectangle area. AdjustDisplayRectangle make this grid display more efficient
• DisplayRectangle area excludes areas occupied by caption, texts and borders
• Smart docking
  

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BorderOverlay property gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control's border overlays the caption or text objects.

• Border setting can be set at pixel-level
• Different borders colors and thickness are never overlapped

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In the property window, all UIComponents specific classes have a read-only property that reminds the referring class name, and it is provided for your convenience.

• Available for any UIComponents object
• Con be used to find corresponding event name

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Most of properties are supported by Custom TypeEditors

• Integer editors
• Flags editors
• Colors editors
• Enhanced gradient visual editor

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Allow to reduce the DisplayRectangle area of a container control

• The Visual Studio IDE standard DisplayRectangle property gets the rectangle that represents the virtual display area of the control. When one of the DockPadding values (that represents dock padding settings for all edges of the control) is non-zero, the DisplayRectangle is reduced by the same value.
• The border size (if any) is always excluded from DisplayRectangle
• The PaddingEx property is always excluded from DisplayRectangle

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Used to shrink internal or external size of a control

• Applied to PaddingEx properties (external margin)
• Applied to InnerMargin properties (internal margin)
  
• Work on four edges
• Fires the PaddingExChangedEvent

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SmartLayout property excludes or includes pictures and watermark drawings over text and caption areas.

• Prevent images are overlapped
• Allow smart placement of watermarks
• Prevent images from beeing underlayed to toolbars or other objects

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