Please help! I'm absolutely perplexed by this problem. I have a PictureBox on a Form in .NET 2.0. I allow my user to draw polygon(s) on the image, and I record the points and draw lines as so in the PicBox.Paint handler: e.Graphics.DrawLine( blackPen, polygonPts[ i ], polygonPt...more >>

Hello, I have this problem: I have a small bitmap 2x2 pixels size. All pixels in this bitmap has RGB values (195, 204, 218). I save this picture in files (formats) JPEG, BMP. I load this pictures in code, to the Bitmap and call GetPixel, the Blue value in case JPEG has value 219, in case ...more >>

Hello, I'm looking for a graphic control I can use in .NET. I need the following features: - drawing shapes - filling shapes with color, gradient or texture - drawing splines, arcs and curves - present the drawings on a graphical map (jpg) I prefer .NET technology. I know Vector Graphi...more >>

Hi, I have taken the code from http://www.bobpowell.net/manipulate_graphics.htm. This works great for creating simple shapes but I have tried to extend the functionality. What I want to do is add images to the screen, so that they work in the same way as all the other shaped. My code...more >>

hi, does VB 2005 provide an equivalent of LockWindowUpdate ? I want to achive that without using win32 API. Also, can anybody please give me some pointer on where i can get all APIs and their .NET equivalent. I will be thankful for any help on the same.. thanks sanjay ...more >>

Hi All I need to add icons to the header of a ListView control, the bitmaps (icons) are save as one single bitmap resource.. I managed to do most of the job but the bitmaps drawn with thier background color. How to make them look transparent? Any help is deeply apperciated. Bests ...more >>

I created a drawing program using VS.NET 2003. I use GDI+ for the graphics. I also wanted the option of creating Image files using the same painting software. Here is what I do: // Create bitmap Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(32, 32) // Get a graphics object Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp)...more >>

Hi All, I started a blog www.kalyanganjam.blogspot.com few months ago. I would like to post articles on .NET Graphics on this blog. But, I dont know where to start, naturally, as a consequence of the vastness of the subject. So, I decided to do this post and get as many questions/issues you may...more >>

All - Without much luck in framework.windowsforms group, posting it to framework.drawing. (*) Is it possible to get the gradient colors that Office 2003 uses for its toolbar, programmatically? For instance Outlook 2003's toolbar under Blue, has a Horizontal Gradient fill from Argb(2...more >>

hi, I am drawing a ruler with displayes as such |'''''|'''''|'''''|'''''|'''''|'''''|'''''|''''' and so on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 when i scale it to view at 200% , numbers below the bars also get enlrged as such. It was not so when i used "pictureBox1.Print" method in VB6 whatever be t...more >>

my 2.0 web app reads an Image from file, resizes it to thumbnail size and uses Image.Save() to save it as a gif file. I want it to be gif format, no other (if I save it in another format, say jpg this doesn't happen). What happens is that the color palette is reduced to 16 colors so the result...more >>

Hi all, We have an ASP.NET framework 1.1 application running on windows server 2003. We currently have code to upload images into an sql server, which is working perfectly. Here is the current code, The first function SetImage takes a stream, and a file name from an HtmlControls.HtmlIn...more >>

Hi All, I am new to GDI and I am faced with a problem of drawing sharp text on gifs. I am using the DrawString API with truetype fonts likeVerdana.Arial etc. However, at lower resolutions of 200 the text has craggy edges. Also, when I zoom at up 400 % I can see more craggy staircase on the ...more >>

I'm developing a program that will print out a sheet of paper that describes the object that I specify. For instance, if in my system I have an object A, I would print out a sheet listing out all of object A's properties, qualities, methods, etc. In order to standardize all of these sheets t...more >>

Howdy All, Can I change the PixelFormat when creating a Bitmap? I am working with video files that do not have a header. The files are UYVY. YUV is a 16 bit format that is often used for video. This code "kinda" works when I use 16 bit pixelformats. It will create the bitmap and save the bi...more >>

Hi, I am having a problem in printing, when I am drawing the picture usin the following code. It draws correctly in screen, the problem is onl in printing. My code block is given below: private void PaintCtrl(Control ctrll, Graphics graphics, Rectangle rectF) { Bitmap bitmap = null; ...more >>