Package com.ms.fx

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About com.ms.fx

The com.ms.fx package contains the following classes.

Class FloatPoint	A class that defines a point on the screen for an outline of a glyph.
Class fullTxtRun	A class that handles extended text runs.
Class FxBrushPen	Provides a pen for GDI compatibility, which allows the user to have a separate brush and pen without switching between them.
Class FxCaret	A cross-platform class that manages a caret object.
Class FxColor	A class that handles color.
Class FxCurve	A basic curve of some form. This class has not been implemented.
Class FxEllipse	A class that creates and handles ellipse objects.
Class FxFill	A class that that defines fill methods.
Class FxFont	A class that produces user-defined font objects.
Class FxFormattedText	An improved version of DrawText. This class is designed for use with any language and will be superclassed for the basis of an edit class. Alignment, text direction, and so on are all specifiable.
Class FxGraphics	A class that encapsulates an extended graphics object and used COM to get to native code.
Class FxMapFont	A class that ensures a font can handle a given string.
Class FxMapFontMappingSection	A class that represnets a section of a string being mapped by FxMapFont.
Class FxOutlineFont	A class that produces user-defined outline font objects.
Class FxPen	A class that creates and manages a wide pen object.
Class FxRubberPen	A class that provides a rubber pen.
Class FxSystemFont	A class that handles system fonts.
Class FxSystemImage	A class that handles system images.
Class FxText	A class that is basically the same as StringBuffer. The biggest difference is that there is no synchronization on the buffer, which makes it a lot faster.
Class FxTexture	A class that encapsulates an extended fill method, using an image to fill a shape.
Class GlyphMetrics	A class that defines the outline metrics for a character.
Class GlyphOutline	A class that holds the ouline information for a character.
Class OutlineCurve	A class that defines the curves of an outline.
Class OutlinePolygon	A class that defines an outline polygon.
Class txtRun	A class that handles text runs generated by the FxFormattedText class.

The com.ms.fx package contains the following interfaces.

Interface IFxGraphicsConstants	Contains all of the constants used by FxGraphics.
Interface IFxShape	The interface for objects which represent some form of geometric shape.
Interface IFxTextCallback	The callback for FxFormattedText that updates the owner and allows it to modify text runs.
Interface IFxTextConstants	Contains the constants used in the text processing classes.

This package differs from standard graphics by using extensible objects.

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Detailed documentation on callback methods in com.ms.fx.