Important:
This is retired content. This content is outdated and is no longer being maintained. It is provided as a courtesy for individuals who are still using these technologies. This content may contain URLs that were valid when originally published, but now link to sites or pages that no longer exist.
A version of this page is also available for
4/8/2010

This function draws a rectangle. The current pen outlines the rectangle and the current brush fills it.

Syntax 

BOOL Rectangle(
  HDC 
hdc, 
  int 
nLeftRect, 
  int 
nTopRect, 
  int 
nRightRect, 
  int 
nBottomRect
);

Parameters

hdc

[in] Handle to the device context.

nLeftRect

[in] Specifies the logical x-coordinate of the upper left corner of the rectangle.

nTopRect

[in] Specifies the logical y-coordinate of the upper left corner of the rectangle.

nRightRect

[in] Specifies the logical x-coordinate of the lower right corner of the rectangle.

nBottomRect

[in] Specifies the logical y-coordinate of the lower right corner of the rectangle.

Return Value

Nonzero indicates success.

Zero indicates failure.

To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

The current position is neither used nor updated by Rectangle.

The extreme bottom and right edges of rectangle are not drawn because the bottom and right coordinates are treated as the width and height respectively of the rectangle instead of its edges.

Requirements

Header windows.h
Library coredll.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also