The document discusses graphics and multimedia capabilities in .NET, including the System.Drawing namespace and GDI+ API. It describes commonly used classes like Bitmap, Font, Graphics, and Color. It also covers drawing shapes, lines, text and filling areas with brushes and pens.
The document discusses graphics and multimedia capabilities in .NET, including the System.Drawing namespace and GDI+ API. It describes commonly used classes like Bitmap, Font, Graphics, and Color. It also covers drawing shapes, lines, text and filling areas with brushes and pens.
The document discusses graphics and multimedia capabilities in .NET, including the System.Drawing namespace and GDI+ API. It describes commonly used classes like Bitmap, Font, Graphics, and Color. It also covers drawing shapes, lines, text and filling areas with brushes and pens.
The document discusses graphics and multimedia capabilities in .NET, including the System.Drawing namespace and GDI+ API. It describes commonly used classes like Bitmap, Font, Graphics, and Color. It also covers drawing shapes, lines, text and filling areas with brushes and pens.
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Graphics and Multimedia
Introduction
The language contains many sophisticated drawing
capabilities as part of namespace System.Drawing and the other namespaces that make up the .NET resource GDI+. GDI+ is an application programming interface (API) that provides classes for creating two-dimensional graphics, and manipulating fonts and images. The most commonly used components of GDI+ reside in the System.Drawing and System.Drawing.Drawing2D namespaces. System.Drawing Key
Class class Bitmap Structure Font
FontFamily
Graphics Color Icon Point Pen Rectangle Region Size SolidBrush
TextureBrush
Image
SolidBrush
HatchBrush
LinearGradient
PathGradient
SolidBrush
TextureBrush
System.Drawing namespace’s Classes and Structures.
Introduction
Class Graphics contains methods used for drawing
Strings, lines, rectangles and other shapes on a Control. The drawing methods of class Graphics usually require a Pen or Brush object to render a specified shape. The Pen draws shape outlines; the Brush draws solid objects Introduction
Structure Color has:
properties to set color of various graphical components.
Methods to create new colors.
Class Font has:
Properties to define unique fonts
Class FontFamily has
Methods for obtaining font information. Introduction
GDI+’s coordinate system is a scheme for identifying every point
on the screen. To begin drawing in Visual Basic, we first must understand GDI+’s coordinate system: Upper-left corner of component has coordinates (0, 0) Coordinate pairs: Allow positioning of text and shapes Horizontal coordinate (x-coordinate) Distance to the right from upper-left corner Vertical coordinate (y-coordinate) Distance down from upper-left corner Coordinate units measured in pixels Used with structures Rectangle and Point that are provided by System.Drawing namespace Introduction
• Rectangle structure defines rectangular shapes with (
width & height ) dimension.
• Point structure represents the x-y coordinates of a
point on a two-dimensional plane. Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects
Graphics objects contain methods for drawing, font
manipulation, color manipulation and other graphics- related actions.
Every Windows application that derives from class
System.Windows.Forms.Form inherits an Overridable OnPaint method where most graphics operations are performed.
The arguments to the OnPaint method include a
PaintEventArgs object from which we can obtain a Graphics object for the control.
The OnPaint method triggers the Control’s Paint event.
Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects
When displaying graphical information on a
control, we need to: 1. Access Graphics object of the control. 2. Then, use Graphics object to draw shapes and strings on the control.
Graphics object Can be accessed in 2 ways:
1. By overriding OnPaint() method to retrieve a Graphics object from argument PaintEventArgs 2. Create a new Graphics object associated with the appropriate surface. Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects
1-Overriding OnPaint() : Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)
‘ extract the Graphics object from the PaintEventArgs argument:
Dim graphicsObject As Graphics = e.Graphics
Calling the OnPaint method raises the Paint event.
Instead of overriding the OnPaint method, programmers can add an event handler for the Paint event because OnPaint method is rarely called directly.
Public Sub MyEventHandler_Paint( _
ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PaintEventArgs) _ Handles Me.Paint Graphics Context and Graphics Objects
2-Creating a new Graphics:
By invoking CreateGraphics method.
Dim graphicsObject As Graphics = label1.CreateGraphics()
Then, you can use the methods provided in class Graphics
to draw on the control for example we can draw a circle on label1
graphicsObjects.DrawCircle(……) Color Control
Structure Color ARGB values Alpha, red, green and blue values, respectively Each value represented as a Byte
Alpha value determines intensity
0 = transparent, 255 = opaque color.
The first number in the RGB value defines the
amount of red in the color, the second defines the amount of green and the third defines the amount of blue. The larger the value, the greater the amount of that particular color. Color Control Color Control Color Control
Programmers draw shapes and Strings using Brushes and Pens.
Fonts After a Font is created, its properties cannot be modified Programmers must create a new Font object to be different
Font constructors Must require a font name as an argument They usually require the font size as an argument
And usually require the font style which is a member of
the FontStyle enumeration: Bold, Italic, Regular, Strikeout,
Underline. Graphics method DrawString sets the current drawing font—the font in which the text displays—to its Font argument. Font Control
DrawString constructors: String to display
Font,
Brush
and the x- and y-coordinates of the location for the String’s first character.
Example Dim textbrush As New SolidBrush(Color.Red) g.DrawString("Hello World", Me.Font, textbrush, 10, 10) Example Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals
Draw Shape
Shape Outline Solid Shape
Pen Brush Example: DrawRectangle(ByVal p As Pen, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal width As Integer, ByVal height As Integer)
FillRectangle(ByVal b As Brush, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal
width As Integer, ByVal height As Integer) Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals
(x, y)
height
width
Ellipse bounded by a rectangle.
Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1IqpC_f_rA
