PLease Help me with my Paint Program... (1 Viewer)

[Aphrael_87]

Ok, here's the deal, Im just about to begin writing a Paint Program in VB, has anyone done that before? Ive never encountered this, and im not sure on how to do it, i just fiished a number puzzle game, and im soooooo over arrays, do i need to use arrays? Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Bunny04]

wouldnt have a clue, we didnt even do the major project *thinks back* Nope didnt do it

 

[Aphrael_87]

Tis cool, thanks anyway

 

[BabieBubski]

Yes! You will have to use ARRAYS... i know its hard... but yeh... u *do* have to use them!!!
Wat kind of game are you making?

 

[Fosweb]

Simple.

1. Set up a picture box with a scale horizontal and vertical.
2. Get the position the user clicks with the mouse in terms of X and Y.
3. Change the colour of the coordinate that corrosponds to the X and Y of the mouseclick.

Blah. Simple.

 

[MedNez]

Haha, nice summary. We had a paint component of our major project, worked great

 

[Aphrael_87]

Yes! You will have to use ARRAYS... i know its hard... but yeh... u *do* have to use them!!!
Wat kind of game are you making?

Its a Paint Program, so far i can draw circles ^_^yay!!! Thanks.

 

[elspethlove]

yeah you do have to use arrays. You also have to create a button to intsert every HP pics you can see? thats how you pass, don't worry, it'll be *cute*

 

[Fosweb]

Quit it with arrays!

All you need to do is track where to mouse goes when you push the mouse button over the picture box. And then draw those pixels.

Now you want to get when the person presses the mouse, and when they move the mouse, so the same code goes in both the mouseDown and mouseClick events...

Add a picturebox called picMain to your form

Private Sub picMain_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

If Button = 1 Then
    picMain.PSet (X, Y), vbBlack
End If

End Sub

Button = 1 [this is the left mouse button]
.PSet draws a pixel, X, Y are coords, vbBlack takes the place of whatever colour you want there... Make that a variable, and get the user to select the colour from a common dialog (the colourpicker one...)

yay... very primitive... very...

 

[Fosweb]

More things for you to think about:

- The .DrawWidth property of a picture box. (Will change the 'thickness' or width of a line or pixel.

- An eraser is just white (vbWhite) coloured pen

- Lines are drawn with a start X,Y coordinate, collected from the mouseDown event, and a finish X,Y coordinate, from the mouseUp event

- Circles are .Circle ( you know this)

- .Cls you should know as clearscreen.