drawRectangle

drawRectangle(x1:    Integer;
              y1:    Integer;
              x2:    Integer;
              y2:    Integer;
              color: Integer);

The drawRectangle method of the Printer class draws the border of a rectangle on the printer page, by using a colored pen the width of the drawWidth property and the style of the drawStyle property.

The inside of the rectangle is not filled. An exception is raised if this method is invoked from a server method.

If the width or the height of the rectangle is zero (0), the rectangle is not drawn. As the figure drawn by this function extends up to but does not include the right and bottom coordinate, the height of the figure is y2 through y1 and the width is x2 through x1. The figure drawn by this rectangle is equivalent to using the drawFilledRectangle method with the drawFillStyle property set to DrawFillStyle_Transparent (1).

The drawRectangle method parameters are listed in the following table.

Parameter	Description
x1, y1	Horizontal and vertical top points of the rectangle
x2, y2	Horizontal and vertical bottom points of the rectangle
color	Color of the pen used

All of the positional values are relative to the left and top margins, and need not lie within the page.

This method causes the header frame to be printed if the method is called at the start of a new page. The method has no subsequent affect on the current print position.

For details about placing output directly on a printer page at any location without the use of frames and drawing rotated text and characters, see "Free-Format Printing", later in this chapter.