Introduction

The LEADTOOLS DigitalPaint Class Library provides dynamic link library (DLL) functions to let you incorporate DigitalPaint capabilities into your Windows applications. The DigitalPaint features are available in the Raster Pro and above toolkits.

The DigitalPaint tools provide the functions necessary for to write a painting program or any painting related application.

The painting output can be painted to a device context (DC), a bitmap, or both. In addition, there LEADTOOLS DigitalPaint provides the option of color restriction, using an optional restriction palette.

The DigitalPaint tools consist of five groups that represent five different paint abilities. Each of these "groups" has group specific functions. These groups are:

Paintbrush group.

Shape group.

Region group.

Fill group.

Text group.

Every group has its own features that will enable the user to manipulate the results of that group.

Paintbrush group

The LEADTOOLS DigitalPaint paintbrush has most of the features found in any artistic painting program. The resulting paintbrush will be translated and scaled automatically for the device context and/or the bitmap, using user-defined transformation settings.

Shape group

The LEADTOOLS DigitalPaint shape group removes some of the Windows Class Library programming when drawing shapes. In addition, shapes may be painted with varying degrees of opacity, or with a paper texture, or with a gradient background, etc. The resulting shapes will be translated and scaled automatically for the device context and/or the bitmap, using user-defined transformation settings.

The following shapes can be drawn: Line, Rectangle, Rounded rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Polybezier.

Region group

The region group has the ability to create regions ranging from simple to very complex (many of them are not supported by Windows). The DigitalPaint toolkit also includes the ability to scale a region, which is not supported directly by Windows. The resulting regions will be translated and scaled automatically for the device context (DC) and/or the bitmap, using user-defined transformation settings.

The following shapes can be used to create regions: Rectangle, Rounded rectangle, Ellipse and Polygon.

The following fill methods can be used to create regions: Surface, Border and Color Replacement.

Fill group

LEADTOOLS DigitalPaint gives the user the most complete area filling solutions in both the method of filling and the features of filling. The resulting filled area will be translated and scaled automatically for the device context (DC) and/or the bitmap, using user-defined transformation settings. The fill group supports the following filling methods: Surface, Border and Color replace.

Surface fill method

Fills an area, starting at a specified point and continuing in all directions, that contains a specified color. A tolerance range can also be set to accept colors very close in value to the specified color.

Border fill method

Fills an area, starting at a specified point and continuing in all directions until finding a specified color. A tolerance range can also be set to stop filling when colors very close in value to the specified color are found.

Color replace

Replaces every pixel using the current fill settings.

Text group

This group includes comprehensive text drawing features that can be found in any painting program. The resulting text will be translated and scaled automatically for the device context (DC) and/or the bitmap, using user-defined transformation settings.

The toolkit comes in WIN32 editions so that it can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

Windows 4.x NT
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000