Common Graphics Objects

The graphics objects are the objects, which you use to draw your GDI+ items such as images, lines, rectangles, and path. For example, to fill a rectangle with a color, you need a color object and type of style you want to fill such as solid, texture and so on.

There are four common GDI+ objects, which you'll be using throughout your GDI+ life to fill GDI+ items. The major objects are:

Brush	Used to fill enclosed surfaces with patterns, colors, or bitmaps.
Pen	Used to draw lines and polygons, including rectangles, arcs, and pies
Font	Used to describe the font to be used to render text
Color	Used to describe the color used to render a particular object. In GDI+ color can be alpha blended

In GDI+, each of these object is represented by a class (also called type).

The Pen Class

A pen draws a line of specified width and style. You always use Pen constructor to create a pen. The constructor initializes a new instance of the Pen class. You can initialize it with a color or brush.

Initializes a new instance of the Pen class with the specified color.

Public Sub New(Color)

Initializes a new instance of the Pen class with the specified Brush.

Public Sub New(Brush)

Initializes a new instance of the Pen class with the specified Brush and width.

Public Sub New(Brush, Single)

Initializes a new instance of the Pen class with the

Dim pn as Pen = new Pen( Color.Blue )
 or
Dim pn as Pen = new Pen( Color.Blue, 100 )

specified Color and Width.

Public Sub New(Color, Single)

Here is one example:

Some of its most commonly used properties are:

Alignment	Gets or sets the alignment for objects drawn with this Pen.
Brush	Gets or sets the Brush that determines attributes of this Pen.
Color	Gets or sets the color of this Pen.
Width	Gets or sets the width of this Pen.

The Color Structure

A Color structure represents an ARGB color. Here are ARGB properties of it:

A	Gets the alpha component value for this Color.
B	Gets the blue component value for this Color.
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