#VB NET DRAW TEXT ON IMAGE CODE#
#VB NET DRAW TEXT ON IMAGE WINDOWS#

The pnlMain control sits behind all of the other controls on the form (including those not yet created) except for the mnuEasyPaint control, and effectively becomes the parent object for them. The PictureBox control serves both to define the boundaries of the drawing area and to provide a background for the lines, shapes, text, and freehand brush strokes drawn by the user. This means that turning the images we create into files is relatively easy (we will elaborate on how this is done later). It is the bitmap image, rather than the control itself, that we will draw on. The drawing area is is defined by the PictureBox control picCanvas, which will be assigned a bitmap image. The form does not yet have much in the way of controls, but we have created a drawing area. Your form should now look like the illustration below.

Now create a PictureBox control on your form (see the cautionary note above) with the following properties:.

Create a second panel control and set its properties as shown below ( Caution: before you create the panel, make sure that the object currently selected in the form designer is the application's main form - this is important to ensure that the new panel becomes a child of the main form, not the first panel (a control's location is always specified relative to its parent control).

Set the properties of the panel control as shown in the table below.

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In the toolbox, expand the Containers pane and double-click the Panel item (you will find this under All Windows Forms) to place a panel control on your form.Repeat the previous step to create a SaveFileDialog control, and rename it from ' SaveFileDialog1' to ' sfdSavePic'.When when the font dialog control appears below your form, rename it from ' FontDialog1' to ' dlgFont'. In the toolbox, expand the Dialogs pane and double-click the FontDialog item.

#VB NET DRAW TEXT ON IMAGE CODE#

Repeat the previous step two more times to add the items ' Save' and ' Exit' to the File menu (don't worry about the code for these menu items just yet - we will be adding it later).

In this box, type the word ' New' to add this item to the application's File menu.

As you type, you will see a second text box appear below and slightly to the right of the first one.

Click on the menu strip (where it says 'Type Here') and type the word ' File' to create the application's File menu.

In the control's Properties window, rename the menu strip control from ' MenuStrip1' to ' mnuEasyPaint'.

In the toolbox, expand the Menus & Toolbars pane, and double-click the MenuStrip item to create a menu strip control on your form (by default, the menu strip will dock with the top of your form).

Set the application's Startup Object property to mEasyPaint.

In the Solution Explorer window, rename the file 'Form1.vb' to 'frmEasyPaint.vb'.

Even so, the application is far from trivial, so we have a fair amount of work to do. The functionality of the program has been limited in order to simplify the design of the interface and reduce the amount of coding required, so there is plenty of scope for further experimentation. It allows the user to create simple graphic images and save them to a file. The program is based on the Microsoft Windows Paint program.

We will however explore some of its useful features by developing a fully functional application for creating graphic images. We will not delve too deeply into the capabilities of Visual Basic's graphics library in these pages.

The subject of computer graphics, and of the graphics capabilities of Visual Basic in particular, is worthy of a book or website in its own right. Using the appropriate commands, it is possible to draw shapes and lines, to create and manipulate images, to intermingle text and graphics, and to utilise a vast range of colours. Visual Basic has an extensive range of features for creating graphics.

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