hi all, i need to print a picture box where i actually draw my own picture. That would be a combination of a few strings and a few lines. I can print the picture box at the printer, however, any graphics inside the picture box would not show up. I kinda undrestand now why this is happening .....more >>

I am walking through some of the very first sample code from the book "Beginning .NET Game Programming" from Apress. I identify his sample code with //SC This code puzzles me: Graphics graph = new Graphics //SC // first of all there is no constructor for Graphics // so in the Form_P...more >>

Hi, I'm currently developing a set of custom controls for a client. Everything is themeable, yadda yadda. I have my own "PictureLargePreview" control which accepts a bunch of Pictures (a threaded extension on top of munch of bitmaps for preview etc). And will display them in a list. With ...more >>

Does ne one know howto mark a point on an image placed in the picture box.In VB6.0 Pset porperty does this.Ne alternative for this in VB.net? -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com...more >>

I have some code that draws small images which really are icons onto menu items. After doing this with DrawImage, I found the Graphics.DrawIcon method. Is there an advantage to this DrawIcon that would make it worth changing my code, since drawing icons is really what I'm doing? -Rachel ...more >>

Before I dive headfirst into this one, I'd like to hear some oppinions: I have a list of images, displayed in a ListBox. The images are quite small, say 100*100 px tops. Now, I want to create a MouseOver effect where the image that is hovered over is displayed as through a magnifying glass...more >>

I am trying to create a bar code in a vb.net app, but the pen alignment right does not have any effect. Any ideas? ...more >>

I am trying to draw a triangle on a toolbarbutton to simulate a drop down button without having the extra button beside my drop downbutton. I was successfully able to draw the triangle by overrriding the onpaint event for the form. that only problem is when I click on the button ( a context menu...more >>

Hi there, I'm using colour matrices to attempt to colourize a bitmap. I would like to try to make any bitmap the same "hue" so to speak as the system's button face colour. This way I can match the colour scheme automatically. I was thinking that I might need to transform the imag...more >>

Is there a technical definition for the term grayscale? Would an indexed image (1,2,4,8 or 16bpp) be considered grayscale if all the colors in the pallete are true shades of gray? Could a 24bpp image be considered grayscale? We're trying to print some TIFF images with a high speed printing ve...more >>

Hi all, I am having a little difficulty... I am trying to merge two images togethor, but I am getting "Invalid parameter used". I have created a seperate class file, set up properties and a method. I am calling it from aspx, the calling works OK, but the return just doesn't work. ...more >>

Hi, I have a control which, among other things, draws a solid rectangle using FillRectangle(). The brush used to fill is a SolidBrush created from KnownColor.Control. When this code executes using a Graphics created by CreateGraphics, the rectangle is exactly the same colour as the backgrou...more >>

It seems there is something like Screen.Dpi property? But I could not found one. Is there an easy way to get the DPI? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi folks, when printing images, I'd like to extract a user-selection and paint several copies (i.e. passport-photos) onto a single page. Thus I'm creating a new bitmap and paint the "view port" on it as many times as appropriate. But - in order to center and scale the "items" accordingly I'd ...more >>

I am attempting to write a program that will take many 1BPP Group 4 CCITT images and downres them from 36"x24" at 400 DPI to 36"x24" at 200DPI. I got as far as to create the new bitmap object and then when I tried to convert it into a graphics object (graphics.fromimage()), I got an error "A Grap...more >>