Drawing Your Own Shapes and Lines

Now you can finally get to the fun part of GDI+: drawing your own images. You saw some of this in action earlier in the chapter. The steps involved are quite easy: Grab the Graphics class and then draw or fill the objects you want using the appropriate method. I listed all the methods you will likely use back in Table 11-3, so you might want to take a quick peek back there to refresh your memory.

Because all it really takes to draw an image is calling methods, let's create a simple piece of artwork with the example in Listing 11-15.

Listing 11-15: A Piece of Art

 namespace HappyFace {     using namespace System;     using namespace System::ComponentModel;     using namespace System::Collections;     using namespace System::Windows::Forms;     using namespace System::Data;     using namespace System::Drawing;     public __gc class Form1 : public System::Windows::Forms::Form     {     public:         Form1(void)         //...     protected:         void Dispose(Boolean disposing)         //...     private: System::ComponentModel::Container * components;         void InitializeComponent(void)         {             this->AutoScaleBaseSize = System::Drawing::Size(6, 15);             this->ClientSize = System::Drawing::Size(300, 300);             this->Name = S"Form1";             this->Text = S"Happy Face";             this->Paint +=                 new System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventHandler(this,Form1_Paint);         }     private:         System::Void Form1_Paint(System::Object * sender,                                    System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventArgs * e)         {             Graphics *g = e->Graphics;             Pen *b4pen = new Pen(Color::Black, 4);             Rectangle rect = Drawing::Rectangle(25, 25, 250, 250);             g->FillEllipse(Brushes::Yellow, rect);             g->DrawEllipse(b4pen, rect);             g->FillPie(Brushes::White, 100, 175, 100, 50, 0, 180);             g->DrawPie(b4pen, 100, 175, 100, 50, 0, 180);             rect = Drawing::Rectangle(100, 100, 25, 25);             g->FillEllipse(Brushes::White, rect);             g->DrawEllipse(b4pen, rect);             rect = Drawing::Rectangle(175, 100, 25, 25);             g->FillEllipse(Brushes::White, rect);             g->DrawEllipse(b4pen, rect);         }     }; } 

Figure 11-15 shows the results of HappyFace.exe, which is about the limit of my artistic abilities.

Figure 11-15: A happy face