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[fissidens]

I find the shape control useful for drawing circles and squares but I want an arrow! What's the best way of doing this? I want just an arrow on a transparent background which mustn't occlude other adjacent controls. Ideally I'd like to be able to vary the fill colour at run-time!

 

[CajunCenturion]

One thing that you can do is to set up a label, with a transparent background, and select the System Font and choose one of the arrow heads as the label caption, and align it to center. Then you can add a line to extend the length of the arrow. Set the BorderSize and BorderColor of the Line to Match the Arrow head size (based on Font Size/Bold), and Label Foreground color. Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[CajunCenturion]

The Webdings 3 Font also has quite a few arrow heads that you may find more appearling. A fairly easy way to set the caption is to use the Character Map utility (mine is Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map) - choose the desired system, and press the select button on the Char Map dialog. Then Cut and Paste from the Char Map to the Label Caption property.
Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[fissidens]

Thanks CC, that will do nicely. You would have got a star were it not for a Session.Member.Handle error - whatever that may be!