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BackgroundVerticalGradient - Paint a vertical gradient background

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Private Declare Function RealizePalette Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long) As Long

' Paint a vertical gradient
'
' STARTCOLOR is the starting color (applied to top border)
' ENDCOLOR is the ending color (applied to bottom border)
' NUMSTEPS is the optional number of stripes (default is 256)
'
' Example: a vertical gradient from blue to Red
'  BackgroundVerticalGradient Form1, &HFF0000, &HFF

Sub BackgroundVerticalGradient(frm As Form, ByVal startColor As Long, _
  ByVal endColor As Long, Optional ByVal numSteps As Integer = 256)
  Dim startRed As Integer, startGreen As Integer, startBlue As Integer
  Dim deltaRed As Integer, deltaGreen As Integer, deltaBlue As Integer
  Dim y As Single, dy As Single
  Dim stp As Long
  
  ' Split the start color into its RGB components
  startRed = startColor And &HFF
  startGreen = (startColor And &HFF00&) \ 256
  startBlue = (startColor And &HFF0000) \ 65536
  ' Split the end color into its RGB components
  deltaRed = (endColor And &HFF&) - startRed
  deltaGreen = (endColor And &HFF00&) \ 256 - startGreen
  deltaBlue = (endColor And &HFF0000) \ 65536 - startBlue
  
  RealizePalette frm.hdc
  
  ' Eval width of each block
  dy = frm.ScaleHeight / numSteps
  
  For stp = 0 To numSteps - 1
    frm.Line (0, y)-(frm.ScaleWidth, y + dy), RGB(startRed + (deltaRed * _
      stp) \ numSteps, startGreen + (deltaGreen * stp) \ numSteps, _
      startBlue + (deltaBlue * stp) \ numSteps), BF
    y = y + dy
  Next
End Sub


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