Working with the Control:
 Client Area Usage

Mouse events:

The following are all Borland events. For information concerning these events, consult your Borland documentation.

OnClick event

OnDblClick event

OnMouseDown event

OnMouseMove event

OnMouseUp event

Display events:

OnPaint event

OnRubberBand event

OnScroll event

Selecting a rectangular area:

AutoRubberBand property

RubberBandHeight property

RubberBandLeft property

RubberBandTop property

RubberBandVisible property

RubberBandWidth property

SetRubberBandRect method

Getting the device context:

GetClientDC method

ReleaseClientDC method

Converting between client and bitmap coordinates:

BitmapToClient method

ClientToBitmap method

ConvertX property

ConvertY property

Specifying the client area as the drawing surface:

DrawPersistence property

Drawing simple objects:

DrawLine method

DrawEllipse method

DrawRectangle method

DrawFillColor property

DrawFillStyle property

DrawMode property

DrawPenColor property

DrawPenStyle property

DrawPenWidth property

Drawing three-dimensional shapes:

DrawShape method

ShapeLeft property

ShapeTop property

ShapeWidth property

ShapeHeight property

ShapeBackgroundStyle property

BackgroundImageHeight property

BackgroundImageLeft property

BackgroundImageTop property

BackgroundImageWidth property

ShapeBorderColor property

ShapeBorderStyle property

ShapeBorderThickness property

ShapeInnerBandHiliteColor property

ShapeInnerBandShadowColor property

ShapeInnerBandStyle property

ShapeInnerBandThickness property

ShapeOuterBandHiliteColor property

ShapeOuterBandShadowColor property

ShapeOuterBandStyle property

ShapeOuterBandThickness property

ShadowColor property

ShadowXDepth property

ShadowYDepth property

Drawing three-dimensional text objects:

DrawTextStr method

TextLeft property

TextTop property

TextWidth property

TextHeight property

TextAlign property

TextFont property

TextStyle property

TextWordWrap property

TextAngle property

TextHiliteColor property

ShadowColor property

ShadowXDepth property

ShadowYDepth property

DrawTextHeight method

DrawTextWidth method

Specifying gradient colors or patterns:

GradientStyle property

GradientStartColor property

GradientEndColor property

GradientSteps property

PatternStyle property

PatternBackColor property

PatternForeColor property