A Line Picker

The following application uses source code from Icon Picker Combo Box by Joel Wahlberg and A Color Picker by Luis Ortega.

The LinePickerDlg class implements a dialog designed to allow the selection of Style, Width, and Color attributes for a CPen object:

Environment: VC6

To use this Line Picker dialog, follow these steps:

How to Include Line Picker in Your Project

• Include the following files in your project:
• LinePickerDlg.cpp
• LinePickerDlg.h
• Colorbtn.cpp
• Colorbtn.h
• Linecbbox.cpp
• Linecbbox.h
• Copy "Other.rc" into your "res" directory.
• Add this line to your rc2 file: #include "Other.rc". Make sure to place a Carriage Return after this line, to avoid the "fatal error RC1004: unexpected end of file found" message.
• Include the line #include "LinePickerDlg.h" in your C++ file.
• Include the line #define IDD_LINEPICKERDLG (5110) in your class header file or in your "Resource.h" file.

How to Use Line Picker

Use the following code to modify the line attributes:

// Create Dialog
CLinePickerDlg *pdlg;
pdlg = new CLinePickerDlg();

// Initialize
// (make sure member variables themselves have been previously
//  initialized)
pdlg->SetColor(m_crColor);
pdlg->SetWidth(m_nWidth);
pdlg->SetStyle(m_nStyle);

// Run modal loop
pdlg->Create(IDD_LINEPICKERDLG);
pdlg->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
if(IDOK == pdlg->RunModalLoop(MLF_SHOWONIDLE)){
  // Retrieve new line attributes...
  m_crColor = pdlg->GetColor();
  m_nStyle  = pdlg->GetStyle();
  m_nWidth  = pdlg->GetWidth();
  // ...and redraw Dialog
  Invalidate(true);
}

// Clean up!
pdlg->DestroyWindow();
delete pdlg;

To draw thick dotted lines—for instance, from within your OnPaint() method—you will need to use the second version of the CPen constructor:

...
LOGBRUSH lb;
lb.lbStyle = BS_SOLID;
lb.lbColor = m_crColor;
CPen CurPen(PS_GEOMETRIC | m_nStyle, m_nWidth, &lb);
CPen *pOldPen = dc.SelectObject(&CurPen);
...

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