Screen box

[frankboss]

I can't figure out how to make a screened box on a form.
What functons would I need to call?

[IDEAL Software Support]

What exactly do you mean by "screened box on a form"? Please elaborate and take into consideration that we are no native English speakers. What edition of VPE are you using?

[frankboss]

When drawing a form, You want a column to have shaded background. so that the column or heading stands out.
Very common on pre-printed forms.
No problem with drawing a box, want a screened/shaded background.

Using VPE Professional V7.0

Thanks
Frank

[IDEAL Software Support]

I have no idea what you exactly mean. Please send a sample picture by e-mail to our support e-mail address.

[frankboss]

I have emailed a sample of a form with shaded box around the headings
It was sent to support@idealsoftware.com

[IDEAL Software Support]

From what I see, set the background color to a light gray, the pensize = 0 and then call the Box() method (DLL: VpeBox) and paint a grey box without a border (pensize = 0). Afterwards you can paint text on top of it.

[frankboss]

I did the following
VpeSetBkgColor(hDoc, COLOR_LTGRAY)
VpePenSize(hDoc, 0)
VpeBox(hDoc, X1,Y1,X2,Y2)

It draw a clear box.

If I set the VpePenSize(hDoc, .01)
It draws a box with line around box.