Setting default color in Windows Forms - windows

Question

I'm creating a simple GUI using Powershell and Windows Forms for a set of scripts I have written.
I've generated a bunch of buttons in the GUI and I'm currently in the process of adding styles to my buttons.
$Button1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
Is there anyway to set the below set of lines as a global/default setting of sorts for all buttons?
$Button1.Cursor = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursors]::Hand
$Button1.BackColor = '#CCCC99'
$Button1.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Verdana",10,[System.Drawing.FontStyle]::Bold)
To give you an idea, what I'm doing now is adding the block of text for every button.
$Button1.BackColor = '#CCCC99'
$Button2.BackColor = '#CCCC99'
$Button3.BackColor = '#CCCC99'
etc...
I'm pretty sure there's a better and more efficient way to do this. Can anyone point me to the right direction?
I expect all buttons to look pretty much the same.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could loop through all of the buttons after they have been created and set their properties, like TheMadTechnician suggests…
But there is a better way. Think object-oriented programming. You have a Button class, and you want to change its default properties. In fact, you want all of your buttons to have those new properties. So really, what you want is a custom control that is like a button but slightly different.
Well, what do you know? There's a linguistic way to express that:
public class MyBeautifulButton : System.Windows.Forms.Button
{
public MyBeautifulButton()
{
// Set default properties here...
}
}
You can even go one fancier and override the specific properties, setting the appropriate attributes, to change their default values.
Then, instead of creating System.Windows.Forms.Button objects in your PowerShell code, you will create MyBeautifulButton objects.
Although I must say that I don't think the result will be terribly beautiful. The BackColor property of a button is one of those that I don't think should have ever been provided. Button controls are designed to be drawn using the system theme, which specifies the colors for you. It also allows the users to customize the colors as desired. Application-specified colors usually result in a visually jarring and downright ugly UI. Don't let your app stick out like a sore thumb. Buttons are utility controls. Consistency is key. Remember that GUI applications are not web pages.

Answer 2

Why not just apply that to all buttons after you add them to the form? Something along the lines of:
$MyForm.Controls | Where{$_.GetType().Name -eq "Button"} | ForEach{$_.BackColor = '#CCCC99'}