Editing Windows Metafile (section)

====Object records====
Object records create and manage graphics objects. In WMF files there are two broad categories of objects – graphics objects and structure objects. Structure objects are not explicitly created or deleted in a WMF, they are instead of complex structures. For example, the BitmapCoreHeader contains information about the dimensions and color format of a device-independent bitmap,<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.2.2.2. BitmapCoreHeader Object|page=85|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> which is itself part of a DeviceIndependentBitmap object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.2.2.9. DeviceIndependentBitmap Object|page=91|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> A graphics object, however, specifies parameters for graphics output and during playback of the WMF it sets up the playback device context.<ref name="graphicsobjects">{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.2.1. Graphics Objects|page=79|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>

Graphics objects can be ''brushes'' (defines the style, color and pattern of a brush which defines how to paint an area of the graphic), ''fonts'' (defines properties that affect how text is displayed), ''palettes'' (specifies colors as device-independent values, defined by an application), ''pens'' (specifies the graphical attributes of a line), and ''regions'' (which specify line and curve segments that define a shape).<ref name="graphicsobjects"/>

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! Name
! Description
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| META_CREATEBRUSHINDIRECT
| Creates a brush object from a LogBrush (logical brush) object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.1 META_CREATEBRUSHINDIRECT Record|pages=131–132|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_CREATEFONTINDIRECT 
| Creates a brush object from a font object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.2 META_CREATEFONTINDIRECT Record|pages=132|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>
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| META_CREATEPALETTE
| Creates a palette object.
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| META_CREATEPATTERNBRUSH<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.4 META_CREATEPATTERNBRUSH Record|pages=133–135|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
| Creates a brush object from a LogBrush (logical brush) object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.3 META_CREATEPALETTE Record|pages=132–133|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_CREATEPENINDIRECT
| Creates a pen object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.5 META_CREATEPENINDIRECT Record|pages=134–135|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_CREATEREGION
| Creates a region object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.6 META_CREATEREGION Record|page=135|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_DELETEOBJECT
| Delete an object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.7 META_DELETEOBJECT Record|page=135|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_CREATEBRUSHINDIRECT 
| Creates a brush object from a LogBrush (logical brush) object.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.8 META_CREATEBRUSHINDIRECT Record|pages=135–136|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>
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| META_DIBCREATEPATTERNBRUSH
| Creates a brush object from a device-independent bitmap.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.9 META_DIBCREATEPATTERNBRUSH Record|pages=136–137|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_SELECTCLIPREGION
| Specifies the region object that will be the current [[Clipping (computer graphics)|clipping region]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.10 META_SELECTCLIPREGION Record|page=137|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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| META_SELECTOBJECT 
| Selects the object that will be the current object for the playback device context, which works on all graphics objects except palette objects, which must be set with META_SELECTPALETTE.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.11 META_SELECTOBJECT Record|pages=137–138|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>
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| META_SELECTPALETTE 
| Selects the logical palette for the playback device context.<ref>{{citation|url=https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-WMF/%5bMS-WMF%5d.pdf|title=<nowiki>[MS-WMF]:</nowiki> Windows Metafile Format Specification|section=2.3.4.11 META_SELECTPALETTE  Record|page=139|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> 
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