A simple but handy new control called KryptonBorderEdge has been added to the Toolkit. Although not much to look at it does enable some useful scenarios to be created.
Here is a picture showing the new control in the two possible orientations. On the left is the default Horizontal orientation and the right side is the Vertical.
The KryptonBorderEdge is best used by setting the AutoSize property to be True. That way the height or width, depending on the orientation, will be automatically set to the width of the border the control has been styled to.
We can use the control in combination with the new DrawBorders property to create a stack of controls with the appropriate appearance.
In the following example we have a KryptonHeaderGroup control. At the bottom of the control we add a KyptonCheckButton with a docking style of Bottom. We modify the check button so it does not draw any of its borders. Then we place a KryptonBorderEdge also with a docking style of Bottom. We just repeat this for the number of options we want to expose and then hook all the check buttons into a KryptonCheckSet instance to get the exclusive checking functionality.
Viola, a simple replica of the Outlook navigator. It lacks many features such as the overflow area at the bottom and a separator bar for resizing the option buttons area but in many cases you may not need that capability.
Of course, you do not have to use check buttons, you could create a stack of controls of any type that are separated using the KryptonBorderEdge.
