Drawing Icons in GDI+

The DrawIcon and DrawIconUnstretched methods are used to draw icons. DrawIcon draws an image represented by a specified object at the specified coordinates- stretching the image to fit, if necessary.

DrawIconUnstrectched draws an image represented by an Icon object without scaling the image.

DrawIcon and DrawIconUnstretched take two arguments: an Icon object and upper left corner coordinates of a rectangle. To draw an icon using these methods, an application first creates an icon and either a Rectangle object or coordinates to the upper left corner at which to draw the icon.

An Icon object represents a Window icon. An application creates an Icon object using its constructor, which takes arguments of String, Icon, Stream, and Type. Table 3.3 describes the properties of the Icon class.

Table 3.4 describes some of the methods of the Icon class.

TABLE 3.3: Icon properties

    Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Paint
        Dim icon1 As New Icon("C://setup.ico")
        Dim icon2 As New Icon("c://chat.ico")
        Dim x As Integer = 20
        Dim y As Integer = 50
        e.Graphics.DrawIcon(icon1, x, y)
        Dim rect As New Rectangle(100, 200, 400, 400)
        e.Graphics.DrawIconUnstretched(icon2, rect)
    End Sub
End Class

Figures 3.27 shows the output from Listing 3.20



FIGURE 3.27: Drawing icons

Conclusion

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