Drawing circles with System.Drawing
There is no DrawCircle
method; use DrawEllipse
instead. I have a static class with handy graphics extension methods. The following ones draw and fill circles. They are wrappers around DrawEllipse
and FillEllipse
:
public static class GraphicsExtensions
{
public static void DrawCircle(this Graphics g, Pen pen,
float centerX, float centerY, float radius)
{
g.DrawEllipse(pen, centerX - radius, centerY - radius,
radius + radius, radius + radius);
}
public static void FillCircle(this Graphics g, Brush brush,
float centerX, float centerY, float radius)
{
g.FillEllipse(brush, centerX - radius, centerY - radius,
radius + radius, radius + radius);
}
}
You can call them like this:
g.FillCircle(myBrush, centerX, centerY, radius);
g.DrawCircle(myPen, centerX, centerY, radius);
You'll need to use DrawEllipse if you want to draw a circle using GDI+.
An example is here: http://www.websupergoo.com/helpig6net/source/3-examples/9-drawgdi.htm
You should use DrawEllipse
:
//
// Summary:
// Draws an ellipse defined by a bounding rectangle specified by coordinates
// for the upper-left corner of the rectangle, a height, and a width.
//
// Parameters:
// pen:
// System.Drawing.Pen that determines the color, width,
// and style of the ellipse.
//
// x:
// The x-coordinate of the upper-left corner of the bounding rectangle that
// defines the ellipse.
//
// y:
// The y-coordinate of the upper-left corner of the bounding rectangle that
// defines the ellipse.
//
// width:
// Width of the bounding rectangle that defines the ellipse.
//
// height:
// Height of the bounding rectangle that defines the ellipse.
//
// Exceptions:
// System.ArgumentNullException:
// pen is null.
public void DrawEllipse(Pen pen, int x, int y, int width, int height);
Try the DrawEllipse method instead.