Using Brushes

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The Brush property of a canvas controls the way you fill areas, including the interior of shapes. Filling an area with a brush is a way of changing a large number of adjacent pixels in a specified way.

The brush has three properties you can manipulate:

• Color property changes the fill color.
• Style property changes the brush style.
• Bitmap property uses a bitmap as a brush pattern.

The values of these properties determine the way the canvas fills shapes or other areas. By default, every brush starts out white, with a solid style and no pattern bitmap.

You can use Vcl.Graphics.TBrushRecall for quick saving off and restoring the properties of brushes.

See Also

• Changing the Brush Color
• Changing the Brush Style
• Setting the Brush Bitmap Property
• Using Pens
• Reading and Setting Pixels