PSet, Line and Circle Drawing Methods

PSet, Line and Circle Drawing Methods

Other than using the line and shape controls to draw graphics on the form, you can also use the Pset, Line and Circle methods to draw graphics on the form.

(a) The Pset Method

The Pset method draw a dot on the screen, it takes the format

Pset (x , y ), color

(x,y) is the coordinates of the point and color is its color. To specify the color, you can use the color codes or the standard VB color constant such as VbRed, VbBlue, VbGeen and etc. For example, Pset(100,200), VbRed will display a red dot at the (100,200) coordinates.

The Pset method can also be used to draw a straight line on the form. The procedure is

For x= a to b

Pset(x,x)

Next x

This procedure will draw a line starting from the point (a,a) and to the point (b,b). For example, the following procedure will draw a magenta line from the point (0,0) to the point (1000,1000).

For x= 0 to 100

Pset(x,x) , vbMagenta

Next x