The capabilities of Win32 brushes are encapsulated in the WFC Brush and BrushStyle objects, objects that you coordinate to create solid, pattern, and hatched brushes.
The Brush object defines a group of public final members, each of which is a Brush object representing a solid brush. The BrushStyle class represents hatched brushes as a group of integer constants, each of which represents a different brush style.
The following table lists the Brush object constants that represent solid brushes.
| Constant | Description |
| Brush.ACTIVEBORDER | Represents a Brush object the color of the active window border. |
| Brush.ACTIVECAPTION | Represents a Brush object the color of the active caption bar. |
| Brush.APPWORKSPACE | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the application workspace window. |
| Brush.CONTROL | Represents a Brush object that is the color of controls. |
| Brush.CONTROLDARK | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the shadow portion of a 3D element. |
| Brush.CONTROLDARKDARK | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the darkest portion of a 3D element. |
| Brush.CONTROLLIGHT | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the highlighted portion of a 3D element. |
| Brush.CONTROLLIGHTLIGHT | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the lightest part of a 3D element. |
| Brush.DESKTOP | Represents a Brush object that is the current color of the desktop. |
| Brush.HALFTONE | Represents a Brush object that is the color of a standard halftone brush. |
| Brush.HIGHLIGHT | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the background of highlighted elements. |
| Brush.HOLLOW | Represents a null brush, which paints nothing. |
| Brush.HOTTRACK | Represents a Brush object that is the color used to indicate hot tracking. |
| Brush.INACTIVEBORDER | Represents a Brush object that is the color of an inactive window border. |
| Brush.INACTIVECAPTION | Represents a Brush object that is the color of an inactive caption bar. |
| Brush.INFO | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the background of an information ToolTip. |
| Brush.MENU | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the menu background. |
| Brush.NULL | Represents a null brush. |
| Brush.SCROLLBAR | Represents a Brush object that is the color of a scrollbar background. |
| Brush.WINDOW | Represents a Brush object that is the color of the window background. |
The following table lists the BrushStyle constants that represent hatched brushes.
| Constant | Description |
| BrushStyle.BACKWARDDIAGONAL | Represents a backward diagonal brush. Parallel lines run from the lower-left corner of the brush origin to the upper-right corner. |
| BrushStyle.DIAGONALCROSS | Represents a cross-hatched brush. |
| BrushStyle.FORWARDDIAGONAL | Represents a forward diagonal brush. Parallel lines run from the lower-right corner of the brush origin to the upper-left corner. |
| BrushStyle.HOLLOW | Represents a hollow brush. A hollow brush is identical to a null brush. |
| BrushStyle. HORIZONTAL | Represents pattern consisting of evenly spaced horizontal lines. |
| BrushStyle.PATTERN | Represents a pattern brush. |
| BrushStyle.SOLID | Represents a solid brush. |
| BrushStyle.VERTICAL | Represents pattern consisting of evenly spaced vertical lines. |