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HatchBrush Class

.NET Framework 4

Defines a rectangular brush with a hatch style, a foreground color, and a background color. This class cannot be inherited.

System.Object
  System.MarshalByRefObject
    System.Drawing.Brush
      System.Drawing.Drawing2D.HatchBrush

Namespace:  System.Drawing.Drawing2D
Assembly:  System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)
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public sealed class HatchBrush : Brush

The HatchBrush type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method HatchBrush(HatchStyle, Color) Initializes a new instance of the HatchBrush class with the specified HatchStyle enumeration and foreground color.
Public method HatchBrush(HatchStyle, Color, Color) Initializes a new instance of the HatchBrush class with the specified HatchStyle enumeration, foreground color, and background color.
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  Name Description
Public property BackgroundColor Gets the color of spaces between the hatch lines drawn by this HatchBrush object.
Public property ForegroundColor Gets the color of hatch lines drawn by this HatchBrush object.
Public property HatchStyle Gets the hatch style of this HatchBrush object.
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  Name Description
Public method Clone Creates an exact copy of this HatchBrush object. (Overrides Brush.Clone().)
Public method CreateObjRef Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Public method Dispose() Releases all resources used by this Brush object. (Inherited from Brush.)
Protected method Dispose(Boolean) Releases the unmanaged resources used by the Brush and optionally releases the managed resources. (Inherited from Brush.)
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Brush.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetLifetimeService Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method InitializeLifetimeService Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone() Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone(Boolean) Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Protected method SetNativeBrush In a derived class, sets a reference to a GDI+ brush object. (Inherited from Brush.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
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A hatch pattern is made from two colors: one defined by the BackgroundColor, which fills the background and one for the lines that form the pattern over the background defined by the ForegroundColor property. The HatchStyle property defines what type of pattern the brush has and can be any value from the HatchStyle enumeration. There are more than fifty elements in the HatchStyle enumeration.

The following illustration shows an ellipse filled with a horizontal hatch pattern.

Hatch Pattern

The following example shows how to create the HatchBrush shown in the previous illustration.

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HatchBrush hBrush = new HatchBrush(
   HatchStyle.Horizontal,
   Color.Red,
   Color.FromArgb(255, 128, 255, 255));
e.Graphics.FillEllipse(hBrush, 0, 0, 100, 60);

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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