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L_AnnGetBoundingRect

Summary

Gets the bounding rectangle of the specified annotation object. This is the rectangle in which the object is displayed.

Syntax

#include "l_bitmap.h"

L_LTANN_API L_INT L_AnnGetBoundingRect(hObject, pRect, pRectName)

Parameters

HANNOBJECT hObject

Handle to the annotation object.

LPRECT pRect

Address of the variable to be updated with the annotation object's bounding rectangle. Pass NULL if you do not wish to retrieve this information.

LPRECT pRectName

Address of the variable to be updated with the bounding rectangle of the name of the annotation object. Pass NULL if you do not wish to retrieve this information.

Returns

Value	Meaning
SUCCESS	The function was successful.
< 1	An error occurred. Refer to Return Codes.

Comments

The bounding rectangle is different from the defining rectangle as follows:

The defining rectangle intersects the outermost points that define the object. If a line is more than one pixel wide, its defining points are in the middle of the line. Refer to the L_AnnGetRect function.
The bounding rectangle accounts for line width and is used as the rectangle to be invalidated when displaying an object. If the line width is an even number, the bounding rectangle is enlarged slightly to allow for variations in how the center of the line is defined on different systems.

Half the width of an object's outer line is outside its defining rectangle, as shown in the following diagram:

$image\bndrect.gif$

If the annotation object name is being displayed (see L_AnnSetNameOptions and L_AnnGetNameOptions for more information on annotation object names), it can appear far away from the annotation object itself. For this reason, a separate bounding rectangle for the annotation object name can be obtained by passing the address of a variable of data type RECT for the argument pRectName.

Required DLLs and Libraries

LTANN
For a listing of the exact DLLs and Libraries needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Platforms

Win32, x64.

Example

This example gets the bounding rectangle for an annotation object, and the bounding rectangle for the annotation object's name.

L_INT AnnGetBoundingRectExample(HANNOBJECT hObject) 
{ 
   L_INT    nRet; 
   L_RECT   rcAnnObjectBounds; 
   L_RECT   rcAnnNameBounds; 
   L_TCHAR  szMsg[200]; 
 
   nRet = L_AnnGetBoundingRect(hObject, &rcAnnObjectBounds, &rcAnnNameBounds); 
   if (nRet != SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
   wsprintf(szMsg, TEXT("L_AnnGetBoundingRect\n\tObject Bounds[%d, %d, %d, %d]\n\tName Bounds[%d,%d,%d,%d]"), 
      rcAnnObjectBounds.left, rcAnnObjectBounds.top, rcAnnObjectBounds.right, rcAnnObjectBounds.bottom, 
      rcAnnNameBounds.left, rcAnnNameBounds.top, rcAnnNameBounds.right, rcAnnNameBounds.bottom); 
   _tprintf(_T("%s"), szMsg); 
   return SUCCESS; 
}