DHTML: Structured Graphics ActiveX Control

Creating, moving, and rotating shapes

• Structured Graphics are only used with Internet Explorer 5

• Structured Graphics control is a Web interface for the widely used DirectAnimation subset of Microsoft’s DirectX software

• http://www.microsoft.com/DirectX/dxm/

Page 1013 Shapes

Inside the param tag you can have NAME and VALUE

Succesive line numbers in NAME prevents the intended methods from being called

SetLineColor color of border line of shapes RGB

SetLineStyle line style and line width

SetFillColor color of shape to be filled in with RGB

SetFillStyle pg 1015 1-14 different types of filling

Using the PARAM tag

PARAM tag

Oval x,y coordinates; height and width; clockwise rotation in degrees

Arc x, y, height, width, angle of arc, size of arc, rotation

Pie same as arc but fills arc with foreground color

Polygon # of vertices, pairs of x,y coordinates

Rect x, y, height, width, rotation

RoundRect x, y, height, width, rotation, height and width of rounded arc at the corners of the rectangle

SetFont fontstyle, size, boldness, italic, underline, strikethrough

Text text, x, y, rotation

PolyLine # of points, pairs of x,y coordinates