Is there anyway to draw transparent text on an black rectangle (without using a temporary bitmap) in GDI Plus? This should leave etched out letters in a black area through which I can see the background. Any ideas? Paul Wardle ...more >>

Hello everybody, does anybody know what System.Drawing.Internal.SystemColorTracker is doing? The reason I ask this is a strange behavioer I found in my application. I think I can fix the problem, but the behavior of this component (SystemColorTracker) seems really confusing. As I was p...more >>

I'm using the System.Drawing.Bitmap class for loading a 32-bit bmp file which includes an alpha channel. The problem is, when it gets loaded (just using the Bitmap(string filename) constructor), it doesn't bother bringing the alpha along with it. All of the pixels just show "255" as their ...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to determine the physical size of the client rectangle? i.e. I have a panel i draw to, and I want to know the actual physical size of the rectangle, regardless of the scren resolution. My first attemp was just using e.Graphics.DpiX and e.Graphics.Pixel but after readi...more >>

I've searched through the archives in these newsgroups and throughout Google in general, and everything seems to indicate that .NET 1.1 doesn't support saving transparent images to disk (either BMP, GIF, or JPG). Is this true? If so, any idea on when Microsoft plans to fix that? It's great ...more >>

Hi all, I'm using DrawImage method to draw various kinds of images (bmp, gif & jpeg) into a control paint event handler. I notice that image drawn has different colors from the original saved image. For example if I draw an image with a RGB(192,192,192) background color the resulting image...more >>

Hello is it possible to change print orientation page by page say Page 1 - Portrait Page 2 - Landscape Page 3 - Portrait Page 4 - Landscape Page 5 - Portrait Page 6 - Landscape Page 7 - Portrait Page 8 - Landscape It is not very clear whether .Net is capable of printing where we...more >>

We are generating a serverside gif-image from a textinput. The problem is that we also are trying to draw a border around the text at the image. First we draw the image using Bitmap and graphics, then we use GraphicsPath and Pen to draw the text, which is white with a black border. The pro...more >>

I'm trying to add a single bitmap image as part of a serializable class definition. When trying to save the class to a file I get the following error: A generic error occurred in GDI+. The class definition is something like this: <Serializable()> Public Class myClass : Implements IClone...more >>

Hi all, I have one frustrating problem. I have class which contains Panel control(using for drawing). Drawing in this control is thru Paint() event. In Paint() event I have Graphics object and I'm doing necessery drawing. Some method of class (drawImage or addImage..) in which I call Panel.Invali...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with a trancparency on PocketPC. Method Bitmap.MakeTransparent() is work very good on PC but this method is not supported by Compact Framework. I have a simple task. I wanna draw a image above the other image like a layer. Image that I draw like a layer will have one backgro...more >>

Folks - I've been given a project to work with, and I'm having a problem figuring out how to tackle it. I am working with the attached image, which is a chart that has to be filled in with values in specific locations. Those locations are "everywhere" - data, or captions to data, will have...more >>

HI, there is a way to rotate an EMF? RotateFlip doesnt work with EMF. How to copy EMF into a Bitmap and rotate it? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Massimo...more >>

Sometimes my UserControl will magically move and resize itself on the form when the app is run from the IDE. It looks like it reverts to the size of the actual control when the the control itself is open in the IDE. And in addition, it slaps it up at 0,0. It looks fine on the running app's ...more >>

Hi everyone, I have two questions if you like to help me a little I'm using PictureBox control on my PocketPC application. I have drawing and displaying in PictureBox. 1. Is it good method to all drawing, cleaning and stuff doing in other place(some other bitmap, graphics..) and then simply...more >>

I've got a UserControl that I've created and I am handling all painting. I'm using the following line of code: SetStyle( ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint | ControlStyles.UserPaint, true ); The problem is that when I add this line into my control's Load() even...more >>

Hello, I am printing a printdocument to a lexmark laser printer. When viewing the document in a preview it looks perfect with 1.5cm borders all round. However the printer adds an extra 1.5 centimeters to the left and top borders. How do you handle this so the preview matches the print out...more >>