i am making a makeup and hairstyle application in vb and i dont have an idea of how i can do it, one of the posters here in daniweb suggested this code for hairstyles to me. and i cant understand a thing in it. XD please help me guys, my application needs make-up and haistyle. if someone can understand this code, kindly put some comments there for me, thanks :)

Public Class Form3
    Private HairStyles As New List(Of HairStyle)
    Private ActiveHairStyle As HairStyle
    Private MouseIsDown As Boolean
    Private CurrentAction As Action

    Public Enum Action
        None
        Move
        ResizeNW
        ResizeSW
        ResizeLeft
    End Enum

    Public Class HairStyle
        Public Pic As Bitmap
        Public bBox As Rectangle
        Public referencePoint As Point
    End Class

    Private Sub picHair_MouseDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles picHair.MouseDown, PictureBox1.MouseDown
        'Start the drag drop operation with the new hairstyle object
        Dim thisStyle As New HairStyle
        thisStyle.Pic = CType(CType(sender, PictureBox).Image, Bitmap)

        DoDragDrop(thisStyle, DragDropEffects.All)

    End Sub

    Private Sub Form1_DragEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles Me.DragEnter
        'If this is a Hairstyle then allow the drop
        If e.Data.GetDataPresent(GetType(HairStyle)) Then
            e.Effect = DragDropEffects.All
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub Form1_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles Me.DragDrop

        If e.Data.GetDataPresent(GetType(HairStyle)) Then
            'Set the active hair style as the one being dropped and drop it 
            'at the cursor location
            HairStyles.Add(CType(e.Data.GetData(GetType(HairStyle)), HairStyle))
            ActiveHairStyle = HairStyles(HairStyles.Count - 1)
            ActiveHairStyle.bBox = New Rectangle(picMain.PointToClient(Cursor.Position), ActiveHairStyle.Pic.Size)


            picMain.Invalidate()
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub picMain_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles picMain.MouseDown

        ActiveHairStyle = GetHairStyle(e.Location)

        If ActiveHairStyle IsNot Nothing Then

            CurrentAction = GetAction(ActiveHairStyle.bBox, e.Location)
            If CurrentAction <> Action.None Then
                MouseIsDown = True
                If picMain.Cursor = Cursors.Arrow Then picMain.Cursor = Cursors.Hand
                ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint = e.Location
            End If
        End If

        picMain.Invalidate()
    End Sub

    Private Sub picMain_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles picMain.MouseMove

        If ActiveHairStyle IsNot Nothing Then

            If MouseIsDown Then

                Select Case CurrentAction
                    Case Action.Move
                        'move the hairstyle to its new location
                        ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Location = ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Location + (CType(e.Location, Size) - CType(ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint, Size))
                        ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint = e.Location

                    Case Action.ResizeLeft
                        'move the hair style over to the left and increase its
                        'width by how much it moved
                        ActiveHairStyle.bBox.X = e.Location.X
                        ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Width += ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint.X - e.Location.X
                        ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint = e.Location

                    Case Action.ResizeNW
                        ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Location = e.Location
                        ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Width += ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint.X - e.Location.X
                        ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Height += ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint.Y - e.Location.Y
                        ActiveHairStyle.referencePoint = e.Location

                End Select

                picMain.Invalidate()

            Else
                'Do a hit test and change the cursor.
                Select Case GetAction(ActiveHairStyle.bBox, e.Location)
                    Case Action.None
                        picMain.Cursor = Cursors.Arrow

                    Case Action.Move
                        picMain.Cursor = Cursors.Hand

                    Case Action.ResizeLeft
                        picMain.Cursor = Cursors.SizeWE

                    Case Action.ResizeNW
                        picMain.Cursor = Cursors.SizeNWSE

                    Case Action.ResizeSW
                        picMain.Cursor = Cursors.SizeNESW

                End Select


            End If

        Else
            If Not picMain.Cursor = Cursors.Arrow Then picMain.Cursor = Cursors.Arrow
        End If

    End Sub

    Private Sub picMain_MouseUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles picMain.MouseUp
        'reset the mouse is down
        MouseIsDown = False
    End Sub

    Private Sub picMain_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles picMain.Paint
        'Draw the hair style to the current size which the bBox provides.

        For i = 0 To HairStyles.Count - 1
            If ActiveHairStyle IsNot Nothing AndAlso ActiveHairStyle.Equals(HairStyles(i)) Then
                Continue For
            End If
            e.Graphics.DrawImage(HairStyles(i).Pic, HairStyles(i).bBox)
        Next

        If ActiveHairStyle IsNot Nothing Then
            e.Graphics.DrawImage(ActiveHairStyle.Pic, ActiveHairStyle.bBox)

            'Draw a dotted line around the hairstyle
            Dim dotPen As New Pen(Color.Black, 1)
            dotPen.DashStyle = Drawing2D.DashStyle.Dot
            e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(dotPen, ActiveHairStyle.bBox)
            dotPen.Dispose()
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Function GetAction(ByVal hairBox As Rectangle, ByVal ScreenLocation As Point) As Action
        'Perform some hit testing.

        'Stretch the box to add a little buffer
        hairBox.Inflate(4, 4)

        'Check if we're inside the hairbox
        If hairBox.Contains(ScreenLocation) Then

            'Checks if mouse if over the left side
            If ScreenLocation.X <= ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Left + 4 Then
                'the cursor is over the left side 

                If ScreenLocation.Y <= ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Top + 4 Then
                    'the cursor is over the top left corner
                    Return Action.ResizeNW

                ElseIf ScreenLocation.Y >= ActiveHairStyle.bBox.Bottom - 4 Then
                    'the cursor is over the bottom left corner
                    Return Action.ResizeSW

                Else
                    'the cursor is over the left side
                    Return Action.ResizeLeft
                End If

            Else
                'the location is in the box.  Check the other sides.
                Return Action.Move
            End If

        Else
            'Not in the box
            Return Action.None
        End If

    End Function

    Private Function GetHairStyle(ByVal screenLocation As Point)
        Dim hairBox As Rectangle
        For i = HairStyles.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
            hairBox = HairStyles(i).bBox
            hairBox.Inflate(4, 4)
            If hairBox.Contains(screenLocation) Then
                Return HairStyles(i)
            End If
        Next
        Return Nothing
    End Function

    Private Function GetFinalImage() As Bitmap

        Dim finalImage As Bitmap = picMain.Image.Clone

        Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(finalImage)

        g.InterpolationMode = Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic

        For i = 0 To HairStyles.Count - 1
            g.DrawImage(HairStyles(i).Pic, HairStyles(i).bBox)
        Next

        g.Dispose()

        Return finalImage
    End Function

    Private Sub PictureBox1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.Click

    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        GetFinalImage()

    End Sub
End Class
Unhnd_Exception commented: Be Happy with what you got. +0

did your teacher tell you to make a hair styling application?

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