Pen Class

Syntax

Public Class Pen _
	Implements ICloneable

public class Pen : ICloneable

Remarks

Pen is an object which is used to draw lines, curves, and outline shapes. You can specify a number of pen settings: Color, Width, DashStyle. Some properties are used to determine a behaviour of lines conjunctions, such as LineJoin and MiterLimit. To specify a shape of the line ends, use StartCap and EndCap properties.

When you draw closed shapes such as rectangles, ellipses, etc with a pen of large width (which is more than 1), there is an important parameter Alignment that specifies the direction to widen the line (both directions evenly or inside the shape).

If you need to get an invisible pen, use a static property Empty that returns empty pen. To check whether the pen is empty, use property IsEmpty.

Examples

Dim bitmap As New Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Bitmap( _
 Aurigma.GraphicsMill.RgbColor.White, 100, 60, _
 Aurigma.GraphicsMill.PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb)

Dim graphics As Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.GdiGraphics = bitmap.GetGdiGraphics()

Dim bluePen As New Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.Pen(Aurigma.GraphicsMill.RgbColor.Blue, 8)

graphics.DrawLine(bluePen, 10, 55, 90, 5)

Dim redPen As New Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.Pen(Aurigma.GraphicsMill.RgbColor.Red, 8)

graphics.DrawLine(redPen, 10, 5, 90, 55)

Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Bitmap bitmap = new Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Bitmap(
    Aurigma.GraphicsMill.RgbColor.White, 100, 60, 
    Aurigma.GraphicsMill.PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb);

Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.GdiGraphics graphics = bitmap.GetGdiGraphics();

Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.Pen bluePen = new Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.Pen(
    Aurigma.GraphicsMill.RgbColor.Blue, 8);

graphics.DrawLine(bluePen, 10, 55, 90, 5);

Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.Pen redPen = new Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing.Pen(
    Aurigma.GraphicsMill.RgbColor.Red, 8);

graphics.DrawLine(redPen, 10, 5, 90, 55);

Inheritance Hierarchy

Thread Safety

Object Model

See Also

Reference

• Pen Members
• Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing Namespace