Rectangle

Library : gdi32.dll  Category : Filled Shapes

Api Example(s)

Optimized Paint procedures with subclassing

Read and modify a TextBox control's formatting rectangle

Create a gradient background

Process individual pixels of a bitmap

Clipping the mouse to a rectangle area

Mouse clipping with the Cursor class

ComboBoxGetDroppedControlRect - Get the size of a ComboBox dropped rectangle

ComboBoxSetHeight - Set a new height for the list portion of a ComboBox control

ListBoxVisibleItems - The number of visible items in a ListBox control

SetWindowShape - Create elliptical or rounded forms

Creating owner drawn menu items to simulate a color picker

CTreeViewEdit - A class for enhanced treeview node editing

GetTreeViewNodeRect - The bounding rectangle of a TreeView's node

CreateEmf - creating an Enhanced Metafile (EMF) from a bitmap image

GetDoubleClickInfo - Retrieve double-click rectangle and timeout

SetDoubleClickInfo - Set the double-click rectangle and timeout

GetDesktopRect - Get size and position of available desktop area

Displaying the directory tree using the TreeView control in VB.NET

Drawing With Textures

Creating Window Shapes from Bitmaps

Drawing Borders and Edges using the API DrawEdge Function

Splitting Aligned Controls on MDI Forms

Sophisticated Control Over Window Sizing and Moving

Generating MouseLeave Events for a Window

Drawing Buttons, Option Boxes and Check Boxes In Your Own Style

Moving Forms and Creating Resize Gripper Boxes

Panel Selector Control

Owner-Draw Cells with SGrid 2.0

S-Grid 2.0 Features

SGrid 2.0

PopupMenu DLL - Create Unlimited Popup Menus

Using the cNewMenu DLL to Create Start Menu/ICQ Style Pop-up Menus

Owner-Draw Pop-up Menus

Using ecdClientDrawOnly with the Owner Draw Combo List Box Control

vbAccelerator Progress Bar Class

vbAccelerator Status Bar Control

vbAccelerator MDITabs Control

GDI+ Wrapper

Creating a new GDI Bitmap from a VB Picture or DC

Restrict Mouse Movement to an Area of the Desktop

Skinned ListBar

Adding an Icon or Control to a TextBox or ComboBox

Subclassing In .NET

A .NET Implementation of the ZoomIn Utility

Painting in the MDI Client Area

How to Select the Entire Row in a ListView

Working with OwnerDraw Menus in VB.NET

Adding icons to menus in VB.NET

A class to put a ProgressBar into a StatusBar

A Primer on Building a Color Picker User Control with GDI+ in Visual Basic .NET or C#

Preview and Print from Your Windows Forms App with the .NET Printing Namespace

Working with Arc API (Arc, ArcTo, AngleArc)

Implementing Balloon ToolTip with sound, System Tray Icon and Context menu

How to create memory DC and bitmap using CreateCompatibleDC and CreateCompatibleBitmap API?

Drawing Chord using API

How to draw left/center/right aligned text for a given rectangle area ?

Example of rectangle APIs

Working with GDI Brush Object

Scale, Translate, Shear, Reflect and Rotate graphics using World Transformation technique

Working with Region API

WindowPicker - Pick any window using mouse and highlight window region

How to create Region from a Bitmap and perform Hit Testing within a Region ?

Working with Basic Filled Shapes using GDI API

How to perform clipping using API

clsEMF : A class to Create/Play/Save Enhanced Meta File (EMF).

Working with Meta Files (EMF,WMF and APM)

Extract and Play individual record stored in WMF/EMF file

How to retrive only visible items of treeview control?

GetListSubItemFromPoint : Detect Listview item/subitem click (VB.net)