Report.DrawMode Property (Access)
You can use the DrawMode property to specify how the pen (the color used in drawing) interacts with existing background colors on a report when the Line , Circle , or Pset method is used to draw on a report when printing. Read/write Integer.
Syntax
expression .DrawMode
expression A variable that represents a Report object.
Remarks
The DrawMode property uses the following settings.
Setting |
Description |
|---|---|
1 |
Black pen color. |
2 |
The inverse of setting 15 (NotMergePen). |
3 |
The combination of the colors common to the background color and the inverse of the pen (MaskNotPen). |
4 |
The inverse of setting 13 (NotCopyPen). |
5 |
The combination of the colors common to both the pen and the inverse of the display (MaskPenNot). |
6 |
The inverse of the display color (Invert). |
7 |
The combination of the colors in the pen and in the display color, but not in both (XorPen). |
8 |
The inverse of setting 9 (NotMaskPen). |
9 |
The combination of the colors common to both the pen and the display (MaskPen). |
10 |
The inverse of setting 7 (NotXorPen). |
11 |
No operation — the output remains unchanged. In effect, this setting turns drawing off (Nop). |
12 |
The combination of the display color and the inverse of the pen color (MergeNotPen). |
13 |
(Default) The color specified by the ForeColor property (CopyPen). |
14 |
The combination of the pen color and the inverse of the display color (MergePenNot). |
15 |
The combination of the pen color and the display color (MergePen). |
16 |
White pen color. |
You can set the DrawMode property in an event procedure specified by a section's OnPrint property setting.
Use this property to produce visual effects when drawing on a report. Microsoft Access compares each pixel in the draw pattern to the corresponding pixel in the existing background to determine how the drawing appears on the report. For example, setting 7 uses the Xor operator to combine a draw-pattern pixel with a background pixel.