Writing a paint program à la MS Paint - how to interpolate between mouse move events?

Question

I want to write a paint program in the style of MS Paint.

For painting things on screen when the user moves the mouse, I have to wait for mouse move events and draw

Answer 1

I think you need to look into the Device Context documentation for wxWidgets.

I have some code that draws like this:

//screenArea is a wxStaticBitmap
int startx, starty;
void OnMouseDown(wxMouseEvent& event)
{
    screenArea->CaptureMouse();
    xstart = event.GetX();
    ystart = event.GetY();
    event.Skip();
}
void OnMouseMove(wxMouseEvent& event)
{
    if(event.Dragging() && event.LeftIsDown())
    {
        wxClientDC dc(screenArea);
        dc.SetPen(*wxBLACK_PEN);
        dc.DrawLine(startx, starty, event.GetX(), event.GetY());
    }
    startx = event.GetX();
    starty = event.GetY();
    event.Skip();
}

I know it's C++ but you said the language was irrelevant, so I hope it helps anyway.

This lets me do this:

which seems significantly smoother than your example.