Environment: VC6
Often, in developing educational-related applications, one needs to draw lines in XY axes, and find the slope of that line. This article introduces how to draw lines in XY axes and find the slope of the line.
The application created here uses the dialog-based MFC AppWizard (EXE). The application has a TextBox in which you have to enter the line equation. The line equation must be in the ‘AX+BY+C=0’ format, where A, B, and C are integers. Entering =0 is not necessary. =0 is assumed by default.
The picture control is used to display the XY axes and to draw lines based on the equation provided in the TextBox. After you enter the line and click the button with name “TestLine”, the slope of the line equation is displayed in degrees and radians when line equations such as x=0 and y=0 are entered. The details of that line are provided under the “Message” static control.
To display XY axes in the picture control, the code is written in the DrawXYAxis() function. The mapping mode is MM_LOMETRIC and the function used to set the mapping mode is SetMapMode(MM_LOMETRIC). The units are taken as 0.01mm.and 100mm=1cm., i.e 1unit=0.01mm., and the origin is changed to the center of the picture control with the SetViewportOrg() function.
If the LineEquation is AX+BY+C, then ‘A’ is Coefx (coefficient of X), B is Coefy (coefficient of Y), and C is Coefcons (Constant). A, B, and C are any Inter values.
The main functionality of drawing a line and finding the slope of the line is written in OnButtonTestLine(). To draw a line such as AX+BY+C=0, we choose two points in the X axis and the respective points are calculated on the Y axis. The X axis points are chosen as [-300,300]. The Y axis points are cleated as the following:
float x1[2]={-300,300};
float y11=((coefx*x1[0])/coefy)+(coefcons/coefy);
float y22=((coefx*x1[1])/coefy)+(coefcons/coefy);
float y1[2]={y11,y22};
The line is drawn between points (x1[0],y1[0]) and (x1[1],y1[1]) using the MoveTo() and LineTo() functions.
dc->MoveTo(x1[0],y1[0]);
dc->LineTo(x1[1],y1[1]);
To draw a current line in PictureControl and erase the previous line, the InvertLine() function is used. It draws a line, not by setting each pixel to a certain color, but by inverting the existing pixel colors. This ensures that the line can be seen no matter what background it is drawn against and that drawing the line again in the same location will erase it by restoring the original screen colors.