Applications Accessories: The Rectangle

Like every geometric representation in your program, a rectangular figure is based on a coordinate system whose origin is located on a top-left corner. The object that "owns" or defines the rectangle also owns this origin.

To completely represent it, a rectangle is defined by its location and it size. The location is defined by a point on the top-left corner of the rectangle:

• The distance from the left border of the object that owns the rectangle to the left border of the rectangle is represented by a property called Left
• The distance from the top border of the object that owns the rectangle to the top border of the rectangle is represented by a property called Top
• The distance from the left to the right borders of the rectangle is represented by a property called Width
• The distance from the left to the right borders of the rectangle is represented by a property called Height
• The distance from the left border of the object that owns the rectangle to the right border of the rectangle is represented by a property called Right
• The distance from the top border of the object that owns the rectangle to the bottom border of the rectangle is represented by a property called Bottom

Based on this, a rectangle can be illustrated as follows:

To create a rectangle, you must provide at least its location and dimensions. The location can be represented by a Point value and the dimensions can be represented with a Size value. Based on this, you can use the following constructor to declare a Rectangle variable:

public Rectangle(Point location, Size size);

The equivalent RectangleF constructor uses the following syntax:

public RectangleF(PointF location, SizeF size);

This constructor requires that you define a Point (or PointF) and a Size (or SizeF) in order to use it. If instead you know the integer values of the location and dimensions, you can use the following constructor to declare a Rectangle object:

public Rectangle(int x, int y, int width, int height);

The equivalent RectangleF constructor has the following syntax:

public RectangleF(float x, float y, float width, float height);

At any time, you can access or retrieve the characteristics of a Rectangle object as illustrated in the above picture from its properties. You use the same names we used in the picture.