"Bob Butler" <tiredofit@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:O%23urvBTYFHA.1412@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> "Lance" <nu***@business.com> wrote in message
> news:eRLsG2SYFHA.3572@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl
>> hi all,
>>
>> why is it that using "with...end with" with the picturebox still
>> requires you to follow this syntax
>>
>> With PictureBox
>>     .FillStyle = 1
>>     .DrawWidth = 2
>>     PictureBox.Circle (x, y), 500
>>     PictureBox.Line (x, y) - (x + 100, y + 100)
>
> Because .Circle and .Line aren't really methods exposed by the picturebox
> control's interface.  The VB compiler is intercepting those statements and
> "pretending" that those methods existing by doing the appropriate graphics
> work for you.  It would have been nice if that had been extended to the With
> handling but whether it's an oversight or a bug or just something they did
> not have time to do before release it's not there.
>
> That the compiler supports these "methods" at all is a testament to the time
> when the VB development team cared about people being able to move their
> code forward to new versions with minimal trouble.
>
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