VB Forum / General / December 2006

Have a look at the Printer object's Line method.

Mike

example:
PrintOutDevice.Line (10, 10)-(2000, 1000), vbRed, B 'F
where PrintOutDevice can be a form,a picturebox,a printer

You can use the Line method. Here is a link to the online help files for
it...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vb98/html/vamthLine.asp

Note in particular the last (optional) argument. Specifying the B makes the
Line method draw a rectangular outline; specifying BF will draw a fill-in
rectangle. See the Example link on that page to see some code that does
this. Although the example shows it being used to draw on the active form
(the default object for the Line method), you can specify a PictureBox,
UserControl or Printer by prefixing the Line method with the appropriate
object). For example, for a printer it could look something like this...

Printer.Line (X1coord, Y1coord)-(X2coord, Y2coord), , BF

Rick