Home \| Products \| Download \| Purchase \| Support

XD++ Library

General Q & A

UCCDraw ActiveX

DocVizor

TFC Library

Free Products
A Cool Year selector
Project backup tool
Rename project tool
Replace all in files tool
A cool color picker

Technical Support

Links

Get Ready to Unleash the Power of UCanCode .NET

A cool GDI pattern brush tool with C++ source code
-- CBrush, LOGBRUSH, CreateBrushIndiect

Free Products List:

Author homepage:
UCanCode Software (www.ucancode.net)

Introduction

This article shows how to use a pattern brush to give your application a similar look and feel, and it also includes a pattern brush bits tool, with this tool you can create a new style of pattern brush very quickly.

How to use it

The steps for usage are as follows:

Run application brushtool.exe.
Click on the left design panel to draw a style, you can click >> button to preview the style.
Click copy button to copy the bits to clipboard.
Call the following code to use the pattern brush. (You can paste the brush bits to the red field)

Code

WORD m_bitsBrush1[8] = { 0xee,0xed,0xeb,0xe7,0xef,0xff,0xff,0xff };

CBrush brush,*pOldbrush;
CBitmap bm;
bm.CreateBitmap(8,8,1,1,m_bitsBrush1);

LOGBRUSH logBrush;
logBrush.lbStyle = BS_PATTERN;
logBrush.lbHatch = (int) bm.GetSafeHandle();
logBrush.lbColor = RGB(0,0,0);

brush.CreateBrushIndirect(&logBrush);
int savedc = dc.SaveDC();
pOldbrush=dc.SelectObject(&brush);
dc.SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);
dc.SetBkColor(RGB(255,255,255));
dc.Rectangle(&rcNew);
dc.SelectObject(pOldbrush);
brush.DeleteObject();
bm.DeleteObject();
dc.RestoreDC(savedc);

Copyright ?1998-2024 UCanCode.Net Software, all rights reserved.
Other product and company names herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Please direct your questions or comments to webmaster@ucancode.net