Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D
Public Class CAPTCHA
Dim cap As String
Public ReadOnly Property CaptchaString As String
Get
Return cap
End Get
End Property
Function GenerateCaptcha(ByVal NumberOfCharacters As Integer) As Bitmap
Dim R As New Random
Dim VerticalLineSpaceing As Integer = R.Next(5, 10) ' The space between each horizontal line
Dim HorisontalLineSpaceing As Integer = R.Next(5, 10) ' The space between each Vertical line
Dim CWidth As Integer = (NumberOfCharacters * 120) 'Generating the width
Dim CHeight As Integer = 180 ' the height
Dim CAPTCHA As New Bitmap(CWidth, CHeight)
Dim allowedCharacters() As Char = "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM123456789".ToCharArray 'Guess
Dim str(NumberOfCharacters - 1) As Char ' The String to turn into a captcha
For i = 0 To NumberOfCharacters - 1
str(i) = allowedCharacters(R.Next(0, 61)) ' Generating random characters
Next
Using g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(CAPTCHA)
Dim gradient As New Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush(New Point(0, CInt(CHeight / 2)), New Point(CWidth, CInt(CHeight / 2)), Drawing.Color.FromArgb(R.Next(&HFF7D7D7D, &HFFFFFFFF)), Drawing.Color.FromArgb(R.Next(&HFF7D7D7D, &HFFFFFFFF)))
'ABOVE: the gradient brush for the background
g.FillRectangle(gradient, New Rectangle(0, 0, CWidth, CHeight))
Dim plist As New List(Of Point) ' the list of points the curve goes through
For i = 0 To str.Length - 1
Dim FHeight As Integer = R.Next(60, 100) 'Font height in EM
Dim Font As New Font("Arial", FHeight)
Dim Y As Integer = R.Next(0, (CHeight - FHeight) - 40) 'Generating the Y value of a char: will be between the top and (bottom - 40) to prevent half characters
Dim X As Integer = CInt((((i * CWidth) - 10) / NumberOfCharacters)) 'Some formula that made sense At the time that I typed it to generate the X value
Dim p As New Point(X, Y)
g.DrawString(str(i).ToString, Font, Brushes.Black, p)
plist.Add(New Point(X, R.Next(CInt((CHeight / 2) - 40), CInt((CHeight / 2) + 40)))) ' add the points to the array
Next
plist.Add(New Point(CWidth, CInt(CHeight / 2))) 'for some reason it doesn't go to the end so we manually add the last point
Dim ppen As New Pen(Brushes.Black, R.Next(5, 10)) ' the pen used to draw the curve
g.DrawCurve(ppen, plist.ToArray)
Dim pen As New Pen(Brushes.SteelBlue, CSng(R.Next(1, 2))) 'the pen that will draw the horisontal and vertical lines.
For i = 1 To CWidth
Dim ptop As New Point(i * VerticalLineSpaceing, 0)
Dim pBottom As New Point(i * VerticalLineSpaceing, CHeight)
g.DrawLine(pen, ptop, pBottom)
Next
'ABOVE Drawing the vertical lines
For i = 1 To CHeight
Dim ptop As New Point(0, i * HorisontalLineSpaceing)
Dim pBottom As New Point(CWidth, i * HorisontalLineSpaceing)
g.DrawLine(pen, ptop, pBottom)
Next
'ABOVE: drawing the horizontal lines
Dim numnoise As Integer = CInt(CWidth * CHeight / 25) 'calculating the number of noise for the block. This will generate 1 Noise per 25X25 block of pixels if im correct
For i = 1 To numnoise / 2
Dim X As Integer = R.Next(0, CWidth)
Dim Y As Integer = R.Next(0, CHeight)
Dim int As Integer = R.Next(1, 2)
g.FillEllipse(Brushes.Black, New Rectangle(X, Y, R.Next(2, 5), R.Next(2, 5))) 'Size of the white noise
Next
'Above: Drawing the Black noise particles
For i = 1 To numnoise / 2
Dim X As Integer = R.Next(0, CWidth)
Dim Y As Integer = R.Next(0, CHeight)
Dim int As Integer = R.Next(1, 2)
g.FillEllipse(Brushes.White, New Rectangle(X, Y, R.Next(2, 5), R.Next(2, 5))) 'Size of the white noise
Next
'Above: Drawing the white noise particles
End Using
cap = str
Return CAPTCHA
End Function
Function Check(ByVal captcha As String, Optional ByVal IgnoreCase As Boolean = False) As Boolean
If IgnoreCase Then
If captcha.ToLower = CaptchaString.ToLower Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
Else
If captcha = CaptchaString Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End If
End Function
End Class
