TXTextControl.Drawing.TXDrawingControl Class - TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms

The TXDrawingControl class implements a Windows Forms control with features to draw custom or predefined shapes. It can be added to a document with the TextControl.Drawings property. The TXDrawingControl class is inherited from the System.Windows.Forms.Control class and implements the System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged interface. The following describes only the properties, methods and events defined through the TXDrawingControl class. For a list of properties, methods and events inherited from the System.Windows.Forms.Control class and the System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged interface see the .NET Framework reference.

public class TXDrawingControl : System.Windows.Forms.Control, System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged

Public Class TXDrawingControl
  Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Control
  Implements System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged

Introduced: X13.

Constructors

Constructor	Description
TXDrawingControl	Initializes a new instance of the TXDrawingControl class.

Events

Event	Description
AdaptBounds	Indicates that the visible bounds of the displayed shapes have been changed (by changing the shape's angle, outline width, yellow adjust rectangles or the control's border width) in so far that the control requires an update of its bounds.
Changed	Indicates that the number or formatting of the displayed shapes has been changed.
ShapeAdjusted	Occurs when a shape has been adjusted by using its yellow adjust rectangle.
ShapeClicked	Occurs when a shape has been clicked on.
ShapeCreated	Occurs when a new shape has been created.
ShapeDeleted	Occurs when a shape has been deleted from the TX Drawing Control's shapes collection.
ShapeDeselected	Occurs when a shape has been deselected.
ShapeFlipped	Occurs when a shape has been flipped.
ShapeFormatChanged	Occurs when shape formatting attributes which cannot be handled with the built-in mouse interface have been changed.
ShapeMoved	Occurs when a shape has been moved with the built-in mouse interface.
ShapeSelected	Occurs when a shape has been selected.
ShapeSized	Occurs when a shape has been sized with the built-in mouse interface.
ViewChanged	Occurs when UI manipulations such as shape moving or selection changing have caused the view to change.

Methods

Method	Description
ClearUndo	Clears the undo buffer of the TX Drawing Control.
Copy	Copies the current selected shapes of the TX Drawing Control to the Clipboard.
Cut	Moves the current selected shapes of the TX Drawing Control to the Clipboard.
FormatShapesDialog	Opens a dialog to format selected shapes.
Load	Loads shapes data into the TX Drawing Control from a specified object of type System.IO.Stream.
Paste	Pastes the content of the clipboard into the TX Drawing Control
PrintPaint	Renders the displayed shapes on the specified System.Drawing.Graphics object.
Redo	Redoes the last TX Drawing Control operation.
Save	Saves the shapes data to the given object of type System.IO.Stream.
SaveImage	Saves the displayed shapes as an image.
SelectAll	Selects all shapes in the TX Drawing Control.
SizeToContent	If any changes of the the displayed shapes' visible bounds require an adaption of the TX Drawing Control bounds, the size and/or location of the control is expanded respectively decreased by the considering value of the considering shape's side(s).
Undo	Undoes the last edit operation in the TX Drawing Control.

Properties

Property	Description
BackColor	Gets or sets the TX Drawing Control's back color.
BorderColor	Gets or sets the TX Drawing Control's border line color.
BorderWidth	Gets or sets the TX Drawing Control's border line width.
CanCopy	Informs whether shapes are selected which can be copied to the internal clipboard.
CanPaste	Informs whether the internal clipboard contains shapes that can be pasted into the TX Drawing Control.
CanRedo	Informs whether an operation can be re-done using the Redo method.
CanUndo	Gets a value indicating whether the user can undo the previous operation in the TX Drawing Control.
IsCanvasVisible	Gets a value whether the TX Drawing Control is interpreted as canvas or not.
Selection	Gets an object of type Drawing.Selection that represents the current selected shapes inside the TX Drawing Control.
Shapes	Gets an object of type ShapeCollection that represents those shapes which are displayed inside the TX Drawing Control.
ZoomFactor	Gets or sets the zoom factor, in percent, for the TX Drawing Control.

TXDrawingControl Class

TXTextControl.Drawing Namespace​

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TXTextControl.Drawing Namespace