How to make a very simple custom trackbar control in winforms?

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Hi. I need a simple horizontal TrackBar with just the line and the slider button (rectangle), the height of 28px and 100 possible values. The slider button must be as tall as the control and must have a width of 10px. How to modify the standard TrackBar to get the the simpler version?

What I have tried:

I tried various custom controls but all of them are convoluted. The standard TrackBar has too few options to modify it.

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OriginalGriff 2 days ago

And?
What have you tried?
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At the moment it just sounds like a "do my work for me" request.

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Member 12226991 2 days ago

That's the thing, I don't know how to make one in the first place, that's why I'm asking. I never made custom controls. If someone provided me a clear simple example I could learn from it. I browsed various examples on CodeProject and not only they're more complex than what I need but none of them so far had a clear explanation what should be done. Just a bunch of code, lots of unexplained variables, methods, events, etc.

https://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=trackbar+c%23&doctypeid=1%3b2%3b3%3b13%3b17%3b11&pgsz=50

Do you know a good beginner friendly step by step tutorial of how to make a custom TrackBar? Then I could customize it how I want it.

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charles henington · Answer 1 · 2024-09-18T14:25:00

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TrackBarRenderer Class (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Learn[^]

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