What an angle

[Bart644]

Hello everyone, I am a custom kitchen cabinet maker by trade and visual basic
is a new found hobby of mine. I am trying to write a program to draw simple floor
plans to help me with my kitchen layouts.
Well I'm off to a great start!
I can't draw a rectangle on an angle. However, I can draw a rectangle using
using the top and left property of the shape control. But that don't tilt.
Could someone show me the code to draw a rectangle that tilts on
a angle. A constant of 4 could represent the wall thickness.
I would like to be able to draw the rectangle with the line control and then
transfer those x,y to use the line method in a picture box at any angle that I want
using the mouse.
I would like to use a label to show the angle in degrees ( 0 - 360 ) that the
rectangle is being drawn.
I know how to use the line method to draw one line ( or side ) on an angle,
but I don’t know the formula to draw the other three sides and keep
all the corners square.
I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to look at this
this, and especially grateful to anyone who can help with the code.

Here is what I have:

Form name = Form1
StartUpPosition = Manual
ScaleMode = 1
Width = 7980
Height = 7560

Picture box name = Picture1
Appearance = 1-3D
BackColor = White
AutoRedraw = True
MousePointer = 2-Cross
Hieght = 5535
Left = 120
Top = 120
Width = 7215
ScaleMode = 3-Pixel

Line control named = Line1 ‘ Used for rubber banding effect
BorderColor = Red
Visable = False
X1 = 120
X2 = 224
Y1 = 312
Y2 = 312

'*******************************************
Declarations

Dim a As Long
Dim b As Long
Dim c As Long
Dim d As Long

Private Sub Picture1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

a = X
b = Y
c = X
d = Y

Line1.X1 = a
Line1.Y1 = b
Line1.X2 = c
Line1.Y2 = d
Line1.Visible = True

End Sub

Private Sub Picture1_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

c = X
d = Y
Line1.X2 = c
Line1.Y2 = d

'Label1.Caption = "Some sort of code to show the angle of the rectangle" & "Degrees"

End Sub

Private Sub Picture1_MouseUp(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

Dim e As Long
Dim f As Long
Dim g As Long
Dim h As Long

e = Line1.X1
f = Line1.Y1
g = Line1.X2
h = Line1.Y2

Picture1.Line (e, f)-(g, h), RGB(50, 75, 255)

Line1.X1 = 0
Line1.Y1 = 0
Line1.X2 = 0
Line1.Y2 = 0
Line1.Visible = False
Picture1.Visible = False
Picture1.Visible = True

'*************************************************
'All this extra code will draw a square on any angle, but not the rectangle
'that I want to use
Dim X1 As Long
Dim X2 As Long
Dim Y1 As Long
Dim Y2 As Long
Dim SlopeT As Long 'Top part of slope fraction
Dim SlopeB As Long 'Bottom part of slope fraction

SlopeT = (h - f) * 1
SlopeB = (g - e) * -1
X1 = e + SlopeT
Y1 = f + SlopeB
Picture1.Line (e + SlopeT, f + SlopeB)-(e, f), RGB(50, 75, 255)

'the other side
SlopeT = (f - h) * -1
SlopeB = (e - g) * 1
X2 = g + SlopeT
Y2 = h + SlopeB
Picture1.Line (g + SlopeT, h + SlopeB)-(g, h), RGB(50, 75, 255)

'And the last line
Picture1.Line (X1, Y1)-(X2, Y2), RGB(50, 75, 255)
End Sub

[plenderj]

Well to draw a rotated rectangle, I'd just use 4 lines joined together. To rotate the rectangle, just rotate the positions of the 4 points all together ...

[Bart644]

Is this code understandable? Am I not explaining the description well enough?
Has anyone tried the code? I have scratched my head so much over this angle thing that I soon may need stitches.

[Sastraxi]

Once you have gotten the top, left, bottom, and right properties, you can use a simple rotation algorithm when you have the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. I can attach a simple draw - a - rectange, select rotation program.

Give me a few minutes!

[Zaei]

Well, if you know how to draw one line at an angle, its very easy to draw the other 3 lines as well. You have a regular rectange, with all right angles, correct? If you can draw the bottom line at an angle, the right side will extend up at (angle + 90), the top will just be another bottom, but starting at the endpoint of the right side, and the left side will just join the endpoints of the top and bottom. to speed things up, you can just draw the top and bottom lines, then connect the enpoints of those lines to form the rectangle.

Z.

[Sastraxi]

Well my VB crashed, so I wont be able to get that example to you, my suggestion is to use Zaei's advice.

ONLY 5 MORE POSTS!!

[Bart644]

Thank you all for the replies
Zaei if you have the time try the code and run the so called
program. It will draw a square at any angle you wish by useing
the mouse curser. I wan't to use a Constant number such as 8
for the rectangle height and still keep the sides at a 90 degree angle to the first line. I just cant get the cords of the third
corner ( second lines X2, Y2 ). I know that the X1, Y1
of the second line will be the same as the X1,Y1 of the first line.
If I new how to get the second line I THINK I can figure out the other two lines.
Thanks to all that have seen this.

[Zaei]

Use the method i gave you. If you are rotating the rectangle by 45 degrees, say, you would get the bottom line by rotating it by 45 degrees. Get the second line the same way, except using 45 + 90 as the rotation factor.

Z.