Article ID: 43697
Article Last Modified on 1/9/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft QuickBasic Compiler for Macintosh 1.0
This article was previously published under Q43697
SUMMARY
The video mapping of the Macintosh, as used by Toolbox calls such as FRAMERECT(), is based upon infinitely small points instead of finite pixels. Because of this mapping scheme, when a rectangle is defined for a Toolbox call, the lower-right pixel boundary is one less than the point boundary. These calls are described on Pages 401 to 404 of the "Microsoft QuickBASIC for Apple Macintosh: Language Reference" manual.
MORE INFORMATION
For further information on Macintosh video mapping, refer to the QuickDraw section of "Inside Macintosh Volume I."
Code Example
REM For example, the corners of the following rectangle are actually
REM (100,100) and (199,199):
rect%(0)=100 ' Y1
rect%(1)=100 ' X1
rect%(2)=200 ' Y2
rect%(3)=200 ' X2
CALL FRAMERECT(VARPTR(rect%(0)))
This information applies to the following Toolbox routines:
FRAMERECT, PAINTRECT, ERASERECT, INVERTRECT, FILLRECT
FRAMEROUNDRECT, PAINTROUNDRECT, ERASEROUNDRECT, INVERTROUNDRECT,
FILLROUNDRECT
FRAMEOVAL, PAINTOVAL, ERASEOVAL, INVERTOVAL, FILLOVAL
FRAMEARC, PAINTARC, ERASEARC, INVERTARC, FILLARC
Additional query words: MQuickB
Keywords: KB43697
