This class is used for drawing on a Picture, or a DrawingArea object. Before starting drawing anything, you must call the Begin method by passing it the object where you want to draw. Then you can call any of the drawing methods to draw points, lines, texts, pictures... When your drawing is finished, you must call the End method.

You cannot draw on a DrawingArea outside of its Draw event handler, unless its Cached property is set. In that case, the DrawingArea acts like a Picture.

Since 3.4

The Draw class is deprecated since Gambas 3.4. It is now emulated through the Paint class.

This class is static.

Constants

Disabled This constant is used by the style methods for drawing a control in its disable state.

Focus This constant is used by the style methods for drawing a control having the focus.

Hover This constant is used by the style methods for drawing a control hovered by the mouse cursor.

Normal This constant is used by the style methods for drawing a control in its active state.

Static properties

Background Returns or sets the background color used for drawing brushes or text.

Clip Returns a virtual object used for managing the clipping area of a drawing.

ClipRect Return or set the clipping rectangle.

Device Returns the device being drawn.

FillColor Returns or sets the color used by filling drawing methods.

FillStyle Returns or sets the style used by filling drawing methods.

FillX Returns or sets the horizontal origin of the brushes used by filling drawing methods.

FillY Returns or sets the vertical origin of the brushes used by filling drawing methods.

Font Returns or sets the font used for drawing texts.

Foreground Returns or sets the foreground color used for drawing brushes, text and lines.

H A synonymous for the Height property.

Height Returns the height of the area that can be drawn.

Invert Indicates that all drawing primitives combine their pixel colors with the pixel colors of the destination with an exclusive or operation.

LineStyle Returns or sets the style used for drawing lines.

LineWidth Returns or sets the width used for drawing lines.

Style Returns a virtual class that groups the style drawing methods together.

Transparent Indicates that some drawing methods like Draw.Text are transparent, i.e. that they do not fill their background.

W A synonymous for the Width property.

Width Returns the width of the area that can be drawn.

Static methods

Arc Draw an arc.

Begin Begins a new drawing. The device can be one of the following objects:

Circle Draw a circle or a pie.

Clear Clears the drawing device with the background color.

Ellipse Draw an ellipse or a pie.

End Ends a drawing.

FillRect Fills the specified rectangle with the specified color.

Image Draws an Image, or part of it.

Line Draws a line.

Picture

Since 3.4

Draws a Picture, or part of it.

Point Draws a single pixel.

PolyLine Draws a polyline, i.e. a void polygon.

Polygon Draws a polygon.

Rect Draws a rectangle.

Reset Resets the transformation matrix.

Restore Restore the state of all drawing properties that were previously saved by the Save method.

RichText Draws a piece of rich text.

RichTextHeight Returns the height of a piece of rich text.

RichTextWidth Returns the width of a piece of rich text.

Save Saves the state of all drawing properties.

Scale Modify the transformation matrix so that drawing are scaled by the specified vector.

Text Draws a text.

TextHeight Returns the height of a text drawing.

TextWidth Returns the width of a text drawing.

Tile Draws a tiled picture.

Translate Modify the transformation matrix so that drawing are translated by the specified vector.

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