Togglebutton in C# Winforms

ToggleButton in C# WinForms

I ended up overriding the OnPaint and OnBackgroundPaint events and manually drawing the button exactly like I need it. It worked pretty well.

Simple ON/OFF toggle button with image

Change your code to:

   private void ToggleButton_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (ToggleButton.Checked)
            ToggleButton.BackgroundImage = Properties.Resources.ToggleButton_ON;
        else
            ToggleButton.BackgroundImage = Properties.Resources.ToggleButton_OFF;
    }

The .Equals is for checking equality which you can override in your own classes.

Winform image toggle button

The usual way is to use a CheckBox with Appearance=Button.

You can toggle its ImageIndex and Text in the CheckedChanged event.

You need to associate it with a well-prepared ImageList of the right ImageSize an ColorDepth.

You can get away with ca 3 lines of code:

private void checkBox1_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (checkBox1.Checked)
      { checkBox1.ImageIndex = 1; checkBox1.Text = "Sue"; }
    else
      { checkBox1.ImageIndex = 2; checkBox1.Text = "Ellen"; }
}

Toggle Button Control

According to this post on OSIX all you need to do is use a CheckBox but set it's appearance to Button.

In code:

CheckBox checkBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox();
checkBox1.Appearance = System.Windows.Forms.Appearance.Button;

(C# code but you see how it works).

But you can do this from the Properties dialog in the designer.

Buttons in WinForms

You can make checkbox or radiobutton look like a Button

cb.Appearance = Appearance.Button;

Toggle switch control in Windows Forms

I know this is a Windows Forms question. But you may want to take a look at Toggle Switches or read more about Universal Windows App Components.

Anyway, here is an answer for Windows Forms developers. It shows how we can customize rendering of a checkbox to have such appearance.

Currently you are drawing only an ellipse, and it's quite a toggle button. But if you want to show it like the below image, you should first draw a round shape for background, and then based on the Checked value, draw the check circle. Using the code in Example part of the answer you can have a CheckBox with such a UI:

Example

The important thing about this sample is it's completely a CheckBox control and supports check using mouse and keyboard. It also supports data-binding and all other standard features of CheckBox. The code is not perfect, but it is a good start point to have a yes/no toggle switch:

using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Windows.Forms;

public class MyCheckBox : CheckBox
{
    public MyCheckBox()
    {
        SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);
        Padding = new Padding(6);
    }
    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        this.OnPaintBackground(e);
        e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
        using (var path = new GraphicsPath())
        {
            var d = Padding.All;
            var r = this.Height - 2 * d;
            path.AddArc(d, d, r, r, 90, 180);
            path.AddArc(this.Width - r - d, d, r, r, -90, 180);
            path.CloseFigure();
            e.Graphics.FillPath(Checked ? Brushes.DarkGray : Brushes.LightGray, path);
            r = Height - 1;
            var rect = Checked ? new Rectangle(Width - r - 1, 0, r, r)
                               : new Rectangle(0, 0, r, r);
            e.Graphics.FillEllipse(Checked ? Brushes.Green : Brushes.WhiteSmoke, rect);
        }
    }
}

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