Fill polygon on Access Form

[SheldonFox]

I have an Access Form with a picture control and I want to be able to fill Polygons on the picture control at run time. I already have the polygons defined (imagine a map with the states as polygons) and also have the code to detect the mouse moving over different polygons.

Since Access doesn't provide other than very basic graphics objects, I assume I will need to get a Device Context and call some polygon fill routine from a graphics library. Also, I ca get the the hWnd from the Form, but I'm not sure about getting the device context for painting.

Anyone have some code that will get the proper device context and call the appropriate routines to fill it with the desired color given my existing polygon X,Y points? (Also, what reference is needed to get the definitions for the required entry points and structures?)

Thanks
Sheldon

[westconn1]

can you use shapes on your form?

[SheldonFox]

As I mentioned in my original post, this is a form in Microsoft Access, and the available shapes are limited. As far as I can tell, only lines and rectangles are supported. Hence the question on how to paint a polygon.

[Ecniv]

I've not used it in that way before...
In theory you may be able to write to an image (possibly just in memory) and show the image on the form.
Possibly you can use the web explorer control to show a web page, inside the page have a canvas and draw to that...