How to draw a resizable rectangle

Rafael Clemente · Post by **Rafael Clemente** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:17 pm

Anybody could give me an idea about how to draw a resizable rectangle on a Dialog?. I mean, the kind of rectangle used to select a region of a Bitmap, that expands and contacts as you move the mouse. I have tried several aproaches with Rectange(), RectDot() and LineTo() but I am sure it must be a simpler way.
Thanks
Rafael

James Bott · Post by **James Bott** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:09 pm

Rafael,

You might look at the incomplete IDE samples that come with FW. I can't remember if there was such an thing for dialog design, but it is worth a look.

James

Rafael Clemente · Post by **Rafael Clemente** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:42 pm

James:
Thank you. I had erased long ago my FW folder. I have re-installed it and found the program you suggested. I'm going to take a long look at it.
Thks
Rafael

Rafael Clemente · Post by **Rafael Clemente** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:21 pm

James:

Thank you for your suggestion. Problem solved. The trick -in case it can be of use to anybody esle- is to use bMMoved() and bLClicked() together with DrawFocusRect() and call this last function twice: The first to erase the previous rectangle, the second to draw it in a sligtly different place.

Best regards,
Rafael

James Bott · Post by **James Bott** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:47 pm

Glad to hear you got it working.

Paco Garcia · Post by **Paco Garcia** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:51 pm

http://fivetechsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1602