Visual Basic

Ray Guan20-Jun-05 15:00

20-Jun-05 15:00

thank you, Mr.anonymous,

you mentioned use array to save line draw info, can you show me some sample code ? i made some pseudo code like this

i define a structure to store information of the line cooridanites , like this :

structure LineInfo
strartPoint as point
endPoint as point
myColor as color
paintORnot as boolean
end structure

but i think it's useless, base on these infomation , i can not find the line i want to erase, and when i drew thourands of lines, the search procedure would cost huge system resource, i think , right?
what u think of this ?

thanks ,

nick

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Christian Graus20-Jun-05 14:55

20-Jun-05 14:55

GDI+ is responsible for drawing lines. I'd ditch the picturebox and just draw your image on screen. I can't imagine it will add anything and could be a pain.

Undo works one of two ways.

1. Keep copies of all your bitmaps every time a drawing event occurs, so you can go back through them

2. Keep all your actions in a list, so you can remove one, and apply the rest to the original image, resulting in an undo

1. is easier to write, 2. is more memory friendly and flexible.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

lespaul3620-Jun-05 15:12

20-Jun-05 15:12

As for what I was thinking with the array is sort of what the last answer says. I would make a structure or class that holds the start position and the end position. Then create a new instance of it and add it to the array on the mouseup event. The hard part would be getting the correct line when a right click is done. Are the lines just verticle/horizontal, or will they go diagonal?

Christian Graus20-Jun-05 15:22

20-Jun-05 15:22

lespaul36 wrote:
The hard part would be getting the correct line when a right click is done.

No, that's pretty easy, just basic trig. Assuming it would be a drawing package, and not straight undo/redo stuff.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Ray Guan20-Jun-05 15:36

20-Jun-05 15:36

"Assuming it would be a drawing package,and not straight undo/redo stuff."

in another words , it means ....?? D'Oh! | :doh:

Christian Graus20-Jun-05 15:39

20-Jun-05 15:39

In other words, a drawing package would allow you to select a line by clicking on it, so you could move/undo any line you like. A paint package would not allow this, it would allow you to simply undo the lines, with a stack so that you could only undo the most recent line first.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Ray Guan20-Jun-05 15:56

20-Jun-05 15:56

do u have any tech document about drawing package ,
can u show me some URL ?
i think i should take some basic ideal about that first,thanks Sniff | :^)

Christian Graus20-Jun-05 16:08

20-Jun-05 16:08

Microsoft has a demo VB.NET program called 'Fotovision' It impliments an undo/redo action list.

As for the maths, if you have a line from 8, 20 to 47, 100, then the triangle is 8, 20 to 8, 100 to 47, 100. Actually, if you work out the ratio for x and y, which is width/height ( (47-8)/(100-20), or 39/80 ( basically .5 ). Then, if your point goes across from 8,20 by half as much as it goes down, the point is on the line.

I'm sure there are plenty of resources online for finding if a point is on a line. There may even be a method in the GDI+ libraries. There is certainly a method for pointinrect, which I'd use first before walking the line myself to see if it's a hit.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

lespaul3620-Jun-05 18:57

20-Jun-05 18:57

Haven' had to do much more that d += 1 lately. Big Grin | :-D

Ray Guan20-Jun-05 15:29

20-Jun-05 15:29

ye, u r correct, Mr.lespaul36,

the hard part gonna be the erasing of the selected line . all lines go diagonal , i cannot find a good data structure to store the info of a line. i cannot capture which point i right clicked on the line. i cannot stroe all points of a line. then loop to find them,oh, i am confused Dead | X|

Christian Graus20-Jun-05 15:41

20-Jun-05 15:41

nickong wrote:
the hard part gonna be the erasing of the selected line

That's not what he said, and you DON'T erase any lines. You either redraw all the lines except that one, on the starting image, or you simply replace the entire bitmap ( or a section of it), so that the line is just not there. You NEVER take the image with the line and try to replace it with the pixels that were there before.

nickong wrote:
cannot capture which point i right clicked on the line

Do you want to ? You never mentioned this. Oh damn, I think you did. The picture box is the first thing that needs to go. Beyond that, you need to keep an array of the points for each line. This means you can't use the bitmap undo idea, you need to build an action list of lines, which would just contain the two points, and if the colour changes, the colour you use. It's a simple struct.

nickong wrote:
cannot stroe all points of a line.

You don't need to. You just need a little trigonometry. You step through the lines in your array and for each, call a function to see if the point your mouse is at is on the line formed by the triangle created by the two points you've got for your line, and the point you make by drawing straight lines that intersect from the x and y directions.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Ray Guan20-Jun-05 15:18

20-Jun-05 15:18

thank you very much, Mr. Graus ,

you said ditch the pictureBox , i think your news was too bad for me, most of my work i have already done was base on the picturebox, because i need a scrollable area to display my data . but now, i think it was a mistake. i am looking for other way to implement this.

can u post some sample code to implement "UNDO" here,i need some reference. both C++ or C# are welcome, best in VB.NET, thanks a lot.

best regards,
nick

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Christian Graus20-Jun-05 15:24

20-Jun-05 15:24

nickong wrote:
i am looking for other way to implement this.

Easy - put a scroll bar on the screen and use it's position in your OnPaint. Then Invalidate the screen in your event handler for scroll events.

nickong wrote:
can u post some sample code to implement "UNDO" here,i need some reference. both C++ or C# are welcome, best in VB.NET, thanks a lot.

Not really, sorry. All of my undo/redo code is under NDAs. But the basic idea is either for each draw event to first copy the current image into an array using Clone, or for drawing lines to be encapsulated into a class which you can make an array of.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Ray Guan20-Jun-05 15:40

20-Jun-05 15:40

thank you anyway, i'll try to do that follow the basic idea. Cool | :cool:

thank you,

nick kong

Christian Graus20-Jun-05 15:47

20-Jun-05 15:47

See my other comments, I didn't realise you wanted to undo any line by clicking on it.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

lespaul3620-Jun-05 19:10

20-Jun-05 19:10

I did something like this before, without the selection of a line to remove it. I wish I had the code, but I lost it when I had a hard drive crash (back up every week now Smile | :)

)

I used GetChildAtPoint for some of the info. I also used an array of bitmaps, however it was for icon info (never did get it to make actual ico files instead of png files), so it was fast and didn't use too much resources. You could probably still pull it off, but might have to do some playing. I would be interested to see if there is a hittest or something for a drawn line...please let me know back. Other wise you would probably want to write the routine to check if it is a hit in its own thread and you would need to give a little distance for ease of click...be hard if it had to be a certain pixel).

Good Luck

T-Smooth21-Jun-05 2:01

T-Smooth

21-Jun-05 2:01

I think what you are looking for is the GraphicsPath object from GDI+. I just recently had to use this and read up on it but I am by no means an expert with it. I did however throw together a quick example in a couple min. to show you how you can use this to draw lines, select them, and then get rid of them. A quick disclaimer first: Being that i did this quick at work, the collection of GraphicsPath objects continously grows... the current implementation never gets rid of the objects, just resets their points to basically have them draw nothing. This should definitely be changed. For additional information, read up on GraphicsPath on MSDN.

<br />
Private Sub Form1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseDown<br />
        Dim oGP As GraphicsPath<br />
<br />
        ' Loop through the collection of lines to see if we clicked on one.<br />
        For Each oGP In LineCollection<br />
            ' The following IF returns true if the line was clicked on, the trigonometry is done for you :)<br />
            If oGP.IsOutlineVisible(e.X, e.Y, New Pen(Color.Black)) Then<br />
                oGP.Reset() ' Should remove the line from the collection or do something different here!<br />
                Me.Invalidate()<br />
                Exit Sub<br />
            End If<br />
        Next<br />
<br />
        Drawing = True<br />
        GP = New GraphicsPath ' Create a new GP object to hold the line. <br />
        pt1 = New Point(e.X, e.Y) ' Set the start point of the line.<br />
        LineCollection.Add(GP) ' Add this graphics path object to the collection<br />
End Sub<br />
<br />
Private Sub Form1_MouseUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseUp<br />
        Drawing = False ' Not drawing a line anymore<br />
End Sub<br />
<br />
Private Sub Form1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseMove<br />
        If Drawing = True Then<br />
            GP.Reset() ' Clear the current graphics path object.<br />
            GP.AddLine(pt1.X, pt1.Y, e.X, e.Y) ' Add the line<br />
            Me.Invalidate() ' Force paint<br />
        End If<br />
<br />
End Sub<br />

You'll have to make sure you declare LineCollection As a New System.Collections.ArrayList somewhere as well as GP as a GraphicsPath and pt1 as a Point.

Hope this helps. Should let you draw lines on the form and then to "erase" them, just click on them.

lespaul3621-Jun-05 11:26

21-Jun-05 11:26

Have to tuck this away for the next time I am messing with GDI+. Thanks T-Smooth.

Recordsets in VB.Net

directred20-Jun-05 4:29

directred

20-Jun-05 4:29

Just wondering if Recordset still exist in VB.Net or is there a better method now. I am thinking about .Movefirst, MoveNext etc. How can you add a record to a DataSet Fill and can you assign an array to a dataset.fill?

Re: Recordsets in VB.Net

lespaul3620-Jun-05 9:19