[RESOLVED] VB Paint Program

[Brian M.]

Would it be possible to create a type of paint program with vb 6.0? I want to write a coloring book for my nephews. Just a window that displays a pic that can be colored on with some color crayon buttons to change the color of the pencil. If anyone has any links to tutorials that would show me some steps, I'd appreciate it. I can program with basic pretty good, I have already written a coloring book with the Just BASIC compiler, but I'd like to port it to vb. I use VB 6.0 enterprise edition, but unfourtunatly the copy that my buddy gave me is sans help files, so I have to wing it a bit until I get more comfortable with the new programming enviroment.

[gavio]

Welcome to VBF

Here's one...

[Brian M.]

Thanks. Its a little complicated, but there is some usefull stuff in it. Does vb have any graphic commands like pset, drawbmp, getbmp or the like?

[JF3000]

here is another :

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=47566&lngWId=1

[gavio]

It has a few:

'both require Picture1 PictureBox
 
Picture1.Picture = LoadPicture ("c:\old.bmp") 'to load it from file
SavePicture Picture1.Picture, "c:\new.bmp" 'to save it to file

When pic is loaded into a PictureBox then you can pretty much do everything with the PictureBox object (go to menu View>>Object Browser and type PictureBox - it will display all methods, functions, properties... and their description of the PictureBox class).

There are also few APIs (GetPixel, SetPixel...). Check AllAPI.net for those

Btw... there's a "restriction" regarding the quality of images you can work with within VB. Only 24-bits... gulp! After all, VB is 10+ years old...

[Brian M.]

Thanks for the paint program and link to allapi.net. They both were helpfull. And the api guide I found on that link will be very usefull.

[gavio]

It's the kind of app that shouldn't be missing on any VB programmer's machine Unless, you know all API declarations