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TPaintBox.Canvas property

Member of TPaintBoxpublicIn unit ExtCtrls

A clipped window into the parent Canvas.

Declaration

pascal
property Canvas:;

Description

Don't paint on the entire Canvas! Instead use the dimensions of the TGraphicControl stored in the ClientRect.

If you ask for the Canvas.Width or Canvas.Height, you are actually getting the Canvas dimensions from the Parent control.

This description is the one of Controls.TGraphicControl.Canvas.

See also

  • ClientRect
  • ClientWidth
  • ClientHeight
  • BoundsRect
  • TCanvas

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.