Filling control with color

[krallabandi]

I have a usercontrol by name octo ( which is having 8 sides ) I created the control like follows:

1. selected new control
2. placed a shape control on it
3. placed 8 lines on shape control
4. arranged 8 sides (lines) so that it forms a closed box.

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/ \
| |
| |
\ /
_____

My question is I want to fill the box with some color at run time. How can it possible? If it is a shape control we can easily do it by filling black color.

reply at the earliest
Thanks
Kiran

[kedaman]

Using this API you can fill an area that is restricted with ie lines. I'm not sure if it works with line controls but if you use the line method it surely works:

Declare Sub FloodFill Lib "GDI32" Alias "FloodFill" _
 (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As _
 Long, ByVal crColor As Long) As Long