Chapter 10. Graphics

REALBASIC HAS NUMEROUS CLASSES for handling images and graphics (both two dimensional and three dimensional). There are also a lot of other classes that have methods related to graphics; examples include the Windows class and the FolderItem class. There are a few global functions that provide some help along the way, too. One important graphics-related topic is printing. Space constraints do not allow me to cover all aspects of managing graphics in REALbasic, but I will cover the most commonly used tools that are provided.

Raster and Vector Graphics

Raster and vector graphics are two ways of representing an image of some sort using the native language of 1s and 0s employed by computers. A raster image is simpler to understand, ...

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