"carry" <carry.f@seznam.cz> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> I'm drawing text and some other shapes on bitmap buffer. All objects
> just in one pass, but the text looks fuzzy as it were painted more times
> when bitmap is dropped on Graphics. I checked it with diagnostic output
> and it's drawing method is called just once, same as on other shapes.
> Shapes are nice and smooth as i'm using antialiasing but the text is thick
> and grained. I think there has to be something wrong in drawing of that
> bitmap, but I can't find out what the problem is.
> Any ideas would be appreciated very much.
> Martin
>
> the code:
>
> protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
> {
> Graphics g = pe.Graphics;
> g.SmoothingMode = smooth;
>
> if (dragging)
> {
> // put still shapes on background
> if (buffer != null)
> {
> g.DrawImageUnscaled(buffer, 0, 0); // "valid" shapes
> are already painted on bitmap and don't need to be called for draw
>
> foreach (Shape shape in _shapes)
> if (shape.Invalid)
> shape.Draw(g);
> }
> }
> else
> {
> foreach (Shape shape in _shapes)
> shape.Draw(g);
> }
> // base.OnPaint(pe);
> }
>
>
> And this is how buffer is made:
>
> private void FlushShapesToBuffer()
> {
> buffer = new Bitmap(this.ClientSize.Width,
> this.ClientSize.Height);
> Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(buffer);
> g.SmoothingMode = smooth;
> foreach (Shape shape in _shapes)
> if (!shape.Invalid)
> shape.Draw(g);
> g.Dispose();
> }
>
>

Bob Powell [MVP] wrote:
> Try setting the TextRenderingHint.
>