MS Access allows drawing lines on forms, and so does VB.

How is this done in the case of standard VBA?

I could use 1-pixel wide labels, but I want to draw at angles other than 90º or 0º.

Try have a look at this page.

http://www.andypope.info/vba/userformdraw.htm

You can download the example and examine the code.

Hey Birger.

That citation was interesting. I downloaded that sample, and another as well!

I thought it might be problematic to post under Excel, but it was the only VBA forum I could see that seemed general enough to field the question...

I am trying to do this in AutoCAD. AutoCAD has VBA, but does not have the Shapes functionality alongside it that Excel (and apparently Word, as well) has.

The page you cited mentioned the API route; do you know of any resources that give examples of using APIs?
I have Dan Appleman's outstanding API book, but there are so many API functions!
If someone has already worked this out, I’d rather lean on their work...

Hi Brian!

Agree that one shouldn't reinvent the wheel. I also find the API rather complex and I havn't had need to use much of it.

I would expect you should stand a better chance in pure VB/C++ communities to find explanations of/links to the API.

I'm not sure that I have any specific links but I'll have a look when I get home from work and post what I may find. I think I have some German, but the code is of cause universal.

Don't think there's much of interest, but here's the link I mentioned:

http://www.aboutvb.de/
http://www.vba-programmer.com/