C Program To Draw A Line

The C programming language allows drawing graphic shapes such as lines, rectangle, circles and so on. In this article, you will learn to write a program that draws a line on the console.

This program is written using turbo C++ compiler installed on a windows 7 64-bit PC.

Problem Definition

The program uses the C graphic header files and uses the builtin functions to draw a line on the screen. The important steps in this program are:

• Declare the graphic driver and graphic mode variable.
• Initialize the graphic driver
• Initialize the graph and set the path to the graphic support.
• Draw the line
• Close the graph.

Each of these steps are specific lines of codes in the program.

Source Code – C Line Drawing

/* Program to draw a line using C graphic support */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <graphics.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() /* Main function begins */
{
     /* Declare the graphic variables */
     int gdriver, gmode, userpattern;
     int x, y, x_max, y_max;
     /* Initialize the graphics driver to autodetect the graphics drivers */
     gdriver = DETECT;
     userpattern = 1;
     /* Initialization of graph and path set to graphics interface */
     initgraph(&gdriver, &gmode, "D:\\TURBOC3\\BGI");
     /* Set the line style */
     setlinestyle(DOTTED_LINE,userpattern, 3);
     /* Draw the line */
     x = 100;
     y = 70;
     x_max = 350;
     y_max = 70;
     line(x, y, x_max, y_max);
     /* close the graph */
     getch();
     closegraph();
     return 0;
}

Output