I'm trying to debug some code and now I'm lost. Here's the problem. I have a graphic editor with which I can draw shapes and other graphical items. I can also do rotations (90 degree increments, clockwise and counterclockwise) and flips (horizontal and vertical). With some shapes, such as a cu...more >>

I found an article on how to save an image to a bitmap file but I want my output file to be viewable in Pocket IE and .bmp is not supported. Does anyone know where to find the code or a library that will allow me to save directly to , or convert to one of the file types compatible with Pocke...more >>

I would like to use the method DrawString(string,font,brush,x,y) to draw a string. The string should be drawn with a certain font and should also have a two pixel border around each letter. My idea so far is to draw the string twice first in a large size and then again in another color and a bit...more >>

Hi, using DrawString, MeasureString works not as it should on my WinXP SP2+.NET1.1 latest SP. On Win2003 works fine. Problem is that same text in a owner drawn grid is drawn with different spacing between words. It looks like below (same text just first ends with 1, second ends with 12): "So...more >>

Hi, I posted some time ago in December the following message and got no answer. It is very important to me to solve this problem and I wish that MVP people or anyone else could study with me this problem. It could give birth to a wonderful custom control ;) Thanks in advance, here it is : ...more >>

Hello.... Is there a way to convert an existing image - JPG, GIF, BMP - to a black-and-white PCX formatted image? thanks -wd ...more >>

I am working on a painting program for painting height maps. I want the height information to be a 8 bit greyscale value. When I use the Graphics.FromImage() method it seems that I can only create Graphics objects from color bitmaps, not indexed/greyscale bitmaps. Can Graphics objects only be ...more >>

What happens if I call the Invalidate(Rectangle) method several times between two OnPaint() calls? - is the resulting invalidated rectangle then added together from each Invalidate(Rectangle) - or are the calls queued to be executed later by one OnPaint() per Invalidate(), causing an overhead i...more >>

I'm trying to print some stuff with GDI+ and also a wmf image on the document. The wmf image is rotated 90 degrees, but it looks really bad when printed. When it's not rotated, it looks fine, but when rotated it looks like it is pixelated. The edges of the lines are really jigged. The other stuf...more >>

Hi! i have a problem when i want to draw, only, a part of an image. I find a method (DrawImage()) that it can do it, but my problem is that this method shows only a part of the image and the rest, it draw black, then when i execute it the result is a black square and in the middle a part of th...more >>

Folks, From googling I can see this has been asked numerous times yet I am unable to find an answer: How can I create menus similar to MS Outlook? Specifically, the gradient menus. I've found and implemented gradients in the menu items themselves but have not been able to figure out the gra...more >>

Dear Ng, i have a panel. I would like to enable the user to draw his own graphics on the panel, which is looking like a paper. How can I handle the graphics elements (e.g. a rectangle) like objects which have to be resized like a control. Each time I refresh the panel, the elemnts will disa...more >>

Hi No, I'm not handling any picturebox events. I think, it does not happens with all images... If you're creating graphics inside the picturebox it seems to behave correctly but when I use picturebox.image = image.Fromfile() the image flashes everytime I enter or leave the picturebox... I don...more >>

Is there a way to turn off antialiasing? I've tried smoothingmode.none, but it doesn't help. I need to draw 2 rectangles (using a hatchbrush) that have some overlap. I'd like the result to appear as if single polygon was drawn. With the antialiasing, I get a different result where the...more >>

Hello, I´m trying to print an image (captured by scanner), using the System.Drawing.Image.FromHbitmap(IntPtr Hbitmap). When I run the program, it works fine, I can capture the image. But when I select to print, an unhandled exception occurs, as follow: An unhandled exception of type '...more >>

Please excuse my spelling and my grammar, but I'm German. I have a Region where several figures are combined. I also have the GraphicsPaths which ware combined in the Region, but I don't know how to create a procedure which goes along the outline of the region and adds the points senseful to a...more >>