Brush Class Reference

Class for control of a brush lifetime. More...

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Public Types
	Static = COLOR_STATIC
	WINCE.
enum	SysColor { ,   Static = COLOR_STATIC ,   Static = COLOR_STATIC }
Public Member Functions
	Brush (Canvas &canvas)
	Static Constructor returning a "NULL_BRUSH".
	Brush (Canvas &canvas, SysColor color)
	Constructor taking a Canvas and a syscolorbrush enum.
	Brush (Canvas &canvas, BitmapPtr bitmap)
	Constructor taking a Canvas and a COLORREF.
	Brush (Canvas &canvas, COLORREF color)
	Constructor taking a Canvas and a COLORREF.
HBRUSH	getBrushHandle ()
	Returns the Handle to the brush.
Canvas &	getCanvas ()
	Returns the Device Context of the brush.
	~Brush ()
	Automatically restores the old brush and frees the given brush.

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Detailed Description

Class for control of a brush lifetime.

Constructor takes a COLORREF which can be obtained by using e.g. the RGB macro.
Class ensures that your brush is released and the former one is reactivated.
Automatically resets back to the former used brush when object is destroyed.
The hdc parameter to the Constructor is the Device Context for the brush.
Related classes

• UpdateCanvas
• PaintCanvas
• Canvas
• Pen
• HdcModeSetter

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Member Enumeration Documentation

enum SysColor

Enumerator:

Static	WINCE.
Static	WINCE.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Brush	(	Canvas &	canvas,
		COLORREF	color
	)

Constructor taking a Canvas and a COLORREF.

Build a COLORREF argument with windows.h's RGB( red, green, blue )

Brush	(	Canvas &	canvas,
		BitmapPtr	bitmap
	)

Constructor taking a Canvas and a COLORREF.

Build a COLORREF argument with windows.h's RGB( red, green, blue )

Brush	(	Canvas &	canvas,
		SysColor	color
	)

Constructor taking a Canvas and a syscolorbrush enum.

A syscolorbrush is one of the system brushes used to draw e.g. Buttons, Text, etc. Use this Constructor if you wish to use one of those cached brushes instead of creating your own

~Brush

(

)

Automatically restores the old brush and frees the given brush.

Freeing the current brush and resetting back to the former brush. Note that the Pen object cannot have a longer lifetime than the Canvas it belongs to (given to the Constructor) since this will cause undefined behaviour.

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Member Function Documentation

HBRUSH getBrushHandle

(

)

Returns the Handle to the brush.

Returns the Handle to the brush

Canvas & getCanvas

(

)

Returns the Device Context of the brush.

Normally the same as the "parent" object used to construct the Pen

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