Home   Index   About
Ultimate Pack


Custom Search
IE_GETFORMAT

Retrieves the current format of a stroke or a set of strokes in an iedit control.

Parameters

wParam

Not used; must be 0.

lParam

Address of a STRKFMT structure.

Return Value

If successful, returns bit flags that indicate whether the strokes identified in the STRKFMT structure have different color or width, as described in the "Comments" section.

If an error occurs, returns one of the following values:

Constant
Description
IER_ERROR
Unknown error.
IER_PARAMERR
wParam or lParam is invalid. Also returned when there is an invalid stroke index and the IESF_STROKE option is specified in the iesf member of the STRKFMT structure.
IER_SECURITY
The control has security protection disallowing the operation.
IER_SELECTION
No valid selection when the IESF_SELECTION option is specified in the iesf member of the STRKFMT structure.

Comments

If the value in the iesf member of the STRKFMT structure has the IESF_STROKE bit set, IE_GETFORMAT refers to the single stroke identified in the iStrk member. In this case:

  • The return value is 0.

  • The bwidth and rgb members in PENTIP specified in the STRKFMT structure contain the stroke's color and width.

If either the bit IESF_SELECTION or IESF_ALL is set in iesf, IE_GETFORMAT retrieves format information for multiple strokes. In this case, the return value con-tains the IESF_TIPCOLOR or IESF_TIPWIDTH bit flags that indicate whether the multiple strokes share the same ink color and width.

For example, if the multiple requested strokes all have the same width, then

  • The IESF_TIPWIDTH bit of the return value is 0 to indicate the strokes all have the same width.

  • The bwidth member in PENTIP specified in the STRKFMT structure contains the common width.

If the strokes do not all have the same color, IE_GETFORMAT returns the following information:

  • The IESF_TIPCOLOR bit is set in the return value to indicate the strokes do not share a common color.

  • The rgb member in PENTIP specified in the STRKFMT structure contains the color of the last stroke in the group.

The caller must initialize the cbSize member of the STRKFMT structure to sizeof( STRKFMT ) before sending IE_GETFORMAT.

The supplied STRKFMT structure specifies the stroke or strokes for which the attributes are desired. The structure is filled according to the request and the actual stroke attributes.

See Also

IE_SETFORMAT, PENTIP, STRKFMT


Last news from Greatis Software

Nostalgia .Net     Nostalgia .Net     .Net is powerful, but not all-powerful, so sometimes we need to use Win32 API for our .Net applications. It's simple enough with Platform Invoke if you have Win32 skill, but we do not always have time to dig the ancient documentation, declare the special types that are compatible with Win32, find the values of the Win32's constants and so on. Nostalgia .Net offers several simple-to-use classes, and components that will allow you to forget about the headache of Win32 and just use the power of Win32 in your application the same way as you use the native. Net classes.  More »

Recommended software for developers

Ultimate Pack for Delphi and C++ Builder     Ultimate Pack     Component pack for Delphi and C++ Builder that contains runtime form designer, runtime object inspector, print suite and much more for the very special price.  More »

Form Designer .Net     Form Designer .Net     Unique runtime form design solution that allows to edit any form in .Net WinForms application at runtime with full source codes for only 300 euro!  More »

Print Suite .Net     Print Suite .Net     Print Suite .Net is a set of components for easy printing texts, images and grids from your WinForms applications. Full C# source codes are available  More »

Gradient Controls .Net     Gradient Controls .Net     Gradient Controls .Net offers controls with gradient background feature. Labels, panels and so on... Full C# source codes are available  More »

iGrid     Greatis iGrid     iGrid plots drawing grid right over your desktop, so you can use it everywhere, with any drawing application without any special plugins for different graphic editors.  More »


All the contacts and projects

Dmitry Vasiliev (just.dmitry)

Related Links

Software for Visual Studio .NET developers
Software for Delphi and C++ Builder developers
Software for Visual Basic 6 developers
Delphi Tips&Tricks
MegaDetailed.NET

More Online Helps

Win32 Programmer's Reference
Win32 Multimedia Programmer's Reference
OLE Programmer's Reference
Microsoft Windows Pen API Programmer's Reference
Microsoft Windows Sockets 2 Reference
Microsoft Windows Telephony API (TAPI) Programmer's Reference
Unix Manual Pages

Free Tech Secrets ;) Copyright © 2008-2012 Free Tech Secrets ;) greatis just4fun network just4fun