WPF

Polyline In WPF

A polyline is a collection of connected straight lines. The Polyline object represents a polyline shape and draws a polyline with the given points. The Points property represents the points in a polyline. The Stroke property sets the color and StrokeThickness represents the width of the line of a polyline.

Creating a Polyline

The Polyline element in XAML creates a polyline shape. The following code snippet creates a polyline by setting its Points property. The code also sets the black stroke of width 4. 

  1. <Polyline Points="10,100 100,200 200,30 250,200 200,150" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="4" />  

The output looks like Figure 12.

A Polyline 
Figure 12. A Polyline

The CreateAPolyline method listed in Listing 11 draws the same rectangle in Figure 12 dynamically.

  1. privatevoid CreateAPolyline()  
  2. {  
  3.     // Create a blue and a black Brush  
  4.     SolidColorBrush yellowBrush = newSolidColorBrush();  
  5.     yellowBrush.Color = Colors.Yellow;  
  6.     SolidColorBrush blackBrush = newSolidColorBrush();  
  7.     blackBrush.Color = Colors.Black;  
  8.     // Create a polyline  
  9.     Polyline yellowPolyline = newPolyline();  
  10.     yellowPolyline.Stroke = blackBrush;  
  11.     yellowPolyline.StrokeThickness = 4;  
  12.     // Create a collection of points for a polyline  
  13.     System.Windows.Point Point1 = new System.Windows.Point(10, 100);  
  14.     System.Windows.Point Point2 = new System.Windows.Point(100, 200);  
  15.     System.Windows.Point Point3 = new System.Windows.Point(200, 30);  
  16.     System.Windows.Point Point4 = new System.Windows.Point(250, 200);  
  17.     System.Windows.Point Point5 = new System.Windows.Point(200, 150);  
  18.     PointCollection polygonPoints = newPointCollection();  
  19.     polygonPoints.Add(Point1);  
  20.     polygonPoints.Add(Point2);  
  21.     polygonPoints.Add(Point3);  
  22.     polygonPoints.Add(Point4);  
  23.     polygonPoints.Add(Point5);  
  24.     // Set Polyline.Points properties  
  25.     yellowPolyline.Points = polygonPoints;  
  26.     // Add polyline to the page  
  27.     LayoutRoot.Children.Add(yellowPolyline);  
  28. }  

Listing 11

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