LineStyle and -thickness

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by StSchnell.

Hello community and Fred,
my wish for a future version of PureBasic is the possibility to set the style and the thickness of the line, in the 2D graphic.
I want to code a graphic tool for a program workflow, and I need different line styles (e. g. dash, dot, dash dot...) and thickness (e. g. 2 point for a line with an arrow...).
Bye
Stefan

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tranquil.

Possible by a command like:

SetLineStyle %11001100 (one Byte)
and
SetLineStyleEx (with a word long style

with two constants to the line command as flags:
#LineStyle or #LineStyleEx

Cheers
Mike




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[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by El_Choni.

I can't test it right now, but maybe you can change that in Windows using API:

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StartDrawing(WindowOutput())
hDC = GetDC_(WindowID())
MyPen = CreatePen_(#PS_DOT, 1, $FF0000) ; Red dotted 1 unit wide pen
OldPen = SelectObject_(hDC, MyPen) ; look at WIN32.HLP
ReleaseDC_(WindowID(), hDC) ; to find out the correct constant names

; Do your drawing here

hDC = GetDC_(WindowID())
SelectObject_(hDC, OldPen)
DeleteObject_(MyPen)
ReleaseDC_(WindowID(), hDC)
StopDrawing()

If it doesn't work, try putting it before StartDrawing(). I hope it helps.

El_Choni

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by StSchnell.

Hi El_Choni,
tanks for your tip, the problem is not to use the paint commands
from the Win-API. I think about PB internal commands to do this,
because the handling of the paint functions from the Win-API, with
a lot of structures, is not very friendly for the usability.
Bye
Stefan

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by StSchnell.

Hi Mike,
that is allright, good suggestion.
Bye
Stefan