VB: Graphics output to metafile / clipboard ?

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1 total messages Started by Martin Hepperle Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:32

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Author: Martin Hepperle
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:32

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I am using VB as standalone as well as a front end to FORTRAN (yes really!)
programs. I am doing lots of graphics, usually writing a graphics
metafile of my own format which is interpreted later by a C-program
which allows me to export a WMF file or put a picture into the clipboard,
zoom in and out and more.

   What I a looking for is the possibility to create a metafile directly
from VB, using the standard grahics commands (e.g. Object.line (a,b)-(c,d)),
but all I can use to transfer graphics out from VB seems to be a Bitmap format.
   Is there a VBX control available which takes the same commands as the
standard picture control, but can write a metafile to disk or give me
a handle to it so that I can copy it to the clipboard ?

   It would be really easy to write such a control, if I had the source
to a picture control, just don't write to a memory DC, but to a metafile
DC.
   Maybe a future version of VB would happen to contain such a thing
(maybe an additional property of the picture control) ?

Martin.

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