Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

The Line Control

You use the Line control to draw lines of various widths, lengths, and patterns. The Shape control handles the drawing of all other fundamental shapes.

The Line control supports properties that specify the width and length of lines that you draw. In addition, you can change the pattern of each line that you draw. Table 9.1 lists several of the Line control's property values. Table 19.2 contains the values that you can specify for the BorderStyle property. The BorderStyle property determines the pattern that Visual Basic uses to draw the line. By specifying various BorderStyle values, you can vary the line pattern. If you assign a BorderStyle property at runtime, you can either specify a number that represents BorderStyle or use ...