Hi, I am working on a graphics application. The scenario is I would like to change the reference point(origin) to lower left corner instead of the default upper left corner of a panel. It is stated that y-down is positive. I would like to have x-Right as positive and y-up as positive fo...more >>

Hi, I have an array (in the non-programmatic sense) of user controls containing bitmaps (like a thumbnail display). When I scroll the parent control the user controls re- paint but if I scroll quickly a "streaking effect" occurs as the controls appear to be receiving paint events faster ...more >>

Hi, I've been looking for a way to print either a BLOB or image (tif, gif, jpg) file. So far, the example I've seen on the web are those dealing with text documents. I tried said examples, but of course, they would not work. Can you guys help and direct me to some documents/site related to ...more >>

hi- i am using ControlPaint.DrawSelectionFrame to draw a selection frame around controls that i have on a form which can be moved during run-time. i don't see any way to draw the sizing rectangles that are usually on the corners and middle edges of a selection frame. do i have to write ...more >>

Hi, To find out if the mouse has clicked on a graphic object in my collection I've been calling the .IsVisible method on each object in the collection. This seems to work well for a mouse up/down operation. There's even an MSDN example of doing things this way. However, in some vector edito...more >>

Hi, I have spent several hours trying to find an answer to this and I am having no luck. I know this has been asked before but I can not find or come up with an answer that works I have a VB.NET app and I want to 'overlay' a bitmap on it. The bitmap has several areas 'cutout' using the colo...more >>

Hi, I need your help. Currently I am doing an Imaging Project in VB.NET. One of the features in the project is to load an image and identify its colorspace (whether it is in the RGB mode or the CMYK mode). The input image can be in any of the formats like JPEG, TIFF or EPS. I am ab...more >>

I'm using a LinearGradientBrush when drawing on a resizeable (dock = client etc) panel canvas and I've noticed a strange side effect... the gradient brush (or something else?) draws a solid line using the second color as the first line. This behavior should not occur, and does not occur i...more >>

I want to make a embeded activeX to use on IE as host. How to draw a big image generated on client machine pixel by pixel? The main ideea: I havea 513x513 array of values....I draw a sort of map using that values for different colors..so I have a realistic lanscape. I want to zoom about 60 t...more >>

Hi, I would to implement true type fonts in my control, basically when the user resizes the control the font will resize, I've tried to use the height of the rectangle that I draw the font in, but this makes the font too big. Has anyone got any ideas? John...more >>

I have been waiting for a way to create animated gifs from within .Net (VB). Does anyone know of a way to do this yet? THanks, Charles...more >>

I have a square picture. I need to draw a circle on it, and everything outside that circle to be set to a certain color, so the image si lake a framed circle Any hints? ...more >>

I have posted this in the VB news group and have been recommended I post it here. The questions is: I am trying to find a .NET map control. It needs to be capable of multiple layers and custom drawing. We woud like to have an areal photo as the base image and have layered images (drawings) on ...more >>

I can't believe I am asking this but how the heck can we change the font of a label now? It use to be so simple. Me.Label1.FontName = "Wingdings 3" ...more >>

I am pretty sure that the .NET framework doesnt have native PDF support. Has anyone used a decent free/relatively cheap PDF Display component that they would recommend? I dont need to modify the files, or anything, only display them. Thanks, Rick ...more >>

Can anyone tell me how I can convert a grafics object to an image or bitmap? Regards, Christoph...more >>

I have very long text based reports to print in a .net app i have written. I noticed that .net printing is very slow. It prints out one page with the page event handler, then waits 2 seconds at the printer to print another page. This is only on slow PC's. What I did for a work around was...more >>

Hi When using these newsgroups be aware that some individuals like to spam your email address (i.e me for one) The mail they send you seem to come from Microsoft so the only way you can get around it, is to block all Microsoft domain mail (even this isn't effective) Listen pricks this...more >>

Hi, I have a collection of custom controls that I load onto a tab control. The only thing is when a click to another tab all the controls repaint themselves. Is there anyway to stop this from happening? (I have double buffering switched on by the way) John .. ...more >>

Hi guys! I'm trying to use Swedish characters with DrawString but no luck. Do I need to set the Charset somewhere?? I've been searching Google Groups for hours now, but I can't find any help or tutorial. Below is my code. Thanks for any kind of help! Regards, Jonah Olsson Di...more >>

I'm working on an add-in and one of the methods in the extensibility model takes an object of type IPictureDisp. How can i get this in .Net? I've tried loading up bitmap, image and icon classes, and use those, but they dont impelemt this interface. has any one played with IPictureDisp i...more >>

Hi, I've heard this is fairly trivial (esp. with .NET), but I'm trying to make a windows form with an irregular shape. I've read a little bit about Regions, but I haven't found a good source to read yet. Could someone point to a good article for me? Thanks Andrew p.s. inciden...more >>

I'm trying to covert a userdrawn control written in C# to use the XP style. It consists only of a border, a button and a textbox. The button and textbox is working fine but the border is not. The problem I have is that I cannot find the value of the constant GP_BORDER as listed in this page of the...more >>

Hi guys, Anyone knows about how to save a picture from a html page to the hard disk either in C# or VB.NET? What I have done so far is the following and it doesn't work. I got an empty image created on the HDD. But if you click on the following link it gives you the gif picture. _webReques...more >>

Hello, I have been reviewing MS issue #322091 about printing raw text to a printer, however, this does not seems to give any options for inter-mixing with the framework printing. I need to be able to start a print job using PrintDocument and all of it's niceties and then insert raw text cha...more >>