How can I render icons with their alpha blended property on in toolbars, menus, and ther items. Means to say my alpha blended icons looks some distorted when a add to my application but is very clear if seen in explorer or other applications. - Angelina ...more >>

Hi, I have 15 CheckBoxs on a Groupbox. This Groupbox lays on on a Tabpage.Thegroupbox is initially invisible. When user clicks a button I set the groupbox visible. The problem is when I set the groupbox visible it renders 15 checkboxs very slowly and one by one. I want to show all checkbo...more >>

I'm looking for a similar web application: www.izhuk.com/painter exist a similar .net application ? ...more >>

I am using ASP.NET, VB.NET, and GDI+ to dynamically create images for webpages. When I right-click on the dynamically created image to try to save it to my hard drive, which I send as ImageFormat.Gif, my browser (Internet Explorer 6.0) wants me to save it as a *.bmp file. The VB.NET line of co...more >>

Hi I need to develop user interface similar to car radio in windows. for that i am looking for a programming language and/or development environment which can help me in achieving the same. I have the following in mind 1. C++ with MFC 2. C# .NET 2003 3. C#.NET 2005 4. XAML ( i don't know i...more >>

Hi, I have a form that contains a SplitContainer and a TableLayoutPanel. I add \ edit rows in the TableLayoutPanel at runtime. When I run the app, the UI flickers a lot. It shows every change step by step before showing the final form. I have set the style of the form as: Set...more >>

Hi everybody! I need to send a bitmap (Gdiplus::Bitmap) through a LAN. To this aim I must convert it to a stream - serialize? if I use a right term at this place. Could anybody give me a hint how to do this? Any friendly assistance would be highly appreciated. Victor ...more >>

Hi, we're developing a terminal emulation that is displaying a mainframe screen using a monospace font (Courier New). Dependig on the width of the emulation window the font should be stretched width-ways so that the screen fills the window from the left edge to the right. There seems to be ...more >>

I have a map, bitmap, of the world. each continent is in different color. I would like to be able to select all pixels from one continent which is colored in one same color into a separate region for a further manipulation. for example, europe is all blue, africa is all red, asia is all green,e...more >>

I need an algorithm for conversion of a bmp file to jpeg file in .net. I tried to use inbuilt image conversion of .net but they reduce the quality of picture. I need that converted picture should be as clear as original picture. D0 any one have idea about this? - Angelina ...more >>

This is my first post, and I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem I've been working on for a few days. I need to paint over other controls on a form, so I'm using GetDC to get an hDC and paint directly to the screen. The problem is that it won't paint to my second monitor. Here is a bi...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a simple program that should draw a 10x10 rectangle when I click the mouse over the mouse click location. Here it is: Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(@"myImage.bp"); public Form1() { this.Width = bmp.Width; this.Height = bmp.Hei...more >>

Hi, I used these codes to draw a 100mm line: Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.PageUnit = GraphicsUnit.Millimeter; g.DrawLine( Pens.Red, 50, 50, 150, 50 ); while I always got a line about 115mm on screen. Is there any error in these codes? If not, it's a very, very s...more >>

Hi all I'm aving a bizarre behavior with the PrintPreviewControl. I use the MeasureString() method to get the char count of the string that lay on a rectangle, and then with the DrawString() I write that string into the rectangle. And this works perfectly if I draw the string to a Panel. Whe...more >>

Hi folks, Consider a text containing 200 characters (more or less) including and/or excluding the CR/LF within. I would like to compute the height of this text whenever it's width is limited by X pixels! i.e., what's the height of the mentioned text when it's being automatically word wrapped wi...more >>

Hi Bob, could you please repost here the sample on using the Native Window with the EX_LAYERED style. Thanks a lot. Andrea...more >>

I have an Image object (i) which I want to write to a file. This does work but when I later try to do something with this file I get errors, because I think the file is still 'locked'. I have to restart the application before the locks are released. I tried it first as: Image i = ... ; // c...more >>

Hello all. I've followed some very nice articles at c-sharp corner and the code project to come up with an overlayed map image, with military unit icons on top (as well as text demarking the division name). My problem is that the images are so large ; I wanted to put them into a panel for scroll...more >>

Hi, we print metafiles using the PrintDocument. This works OK. But sometimes a metafile has to be rotated upside down, but when drawn into the graphics object the resolution of the result is not acceptable. It looks like its drawn into a small-resolution bitmap and then enlarged. Any sugges...more >>

Greetings, I once asked (quite a while ago) if it was possible to get the source code to the magazine. Someone asked me which source code do I want? To me, most of the source code looked interesting highly educational. So I would say "all of it"? I'm trying to create a WYSIWYG music n...more >>

Hi Is there a way to use centimetres rather than pixels to specify the location within the document? Thanks, Samuel ...more >>

Hi Using the PrintDocument class to print in VB.NET, is there any chance that the number of pixels (I believe pixels are used) will change i.e. today the Height of A4 paper is 1600 pixels can that change one day to be more when better technology will be available (same as what happens to wi...more >>

First off I must say "hats off" to Bob Powell. I have learned a lot from his online GDI + FAQ. With that being said I have been converting an image to a monochrome image with examples provided on his site. The example worked great until I upgraded to the 2.0 Framework. The code still works it ju...more >>

Hi, Lets say I have following line of code, System.Drawing.FontFamily fm = new System.Drawing.FontFamily("Times New Roman) and if "Times New Roman" font is not found in the system, then the above line will throw a error. Is there any way to effectively handle the above ex...more >>

Hello, In one of the controls I develop, I need to draw a fake translucency effect. This application has to be compatible with a part developed in VB6. I know that in GDI+ I can easily ceate a translucent drawing by applying an alpha value to the colors I use but I can't use that. In that ...more >>

Hi there im not very used to color tehory and i wanted to know if it is possible in some way to get from one color a softer version o f that color I was using a color to set it as the background color of listbox items but that version of the color is too strong. There is a way to obtain progr...more >>

I am developing a form filling application that will typically have on the order of 200 input fields. In order to speed things up and save resources I am using a single set of controls (textbox, combo, etc.) to handle the active input field and drawing the rest of the fields on the form. ...more >>

Hi I'm using a snippet of code to make Zoom of images; I'm recovering the images from a database not from a physical directory in the server (because my app is in a hosting) Usually I load the image to mi control in this way: btnMainImage.ImageUrl = "readrealimages.aspx?ProductID=" + ID...more >>

Hi, I'm using a GraphicsPath via the SetClip method on a Graphics object, when I do this it seems to work for a while and then the GraphicsPath becomes invalid (I'm caching them to prevent re-creating them each time). This can occur while simlpy doing a scroll/ zoom or even drawing edges arou...more >>

I have a UserControl I've created that needs to show a tooltip. So I popped one down in the Designer. When I go to show it, I set the text as needed, and it pops up. But no combination of characters, methods, or voodoo sacrifices will entice this tooltip into displaying newlines as actual...more >>

Hi All, I'm trying to create a WYWYG texteditor in my application. At preset I am allowing the user to draw a rectangle (the bounds of the text) then dynamically adding a richtextbox to the form with the bounds of the draw rectangle. The user then types in and edits the text accordingly. ...more >>

I have a program that prints a normal page via the print dialog. When the print dialog opens, and gives the user the chance to select the printer, I want to be able to default the page size to either A3 or A4. Is this possible? Because at the moment it just defaults to American Letter sta...more >>

Hi all. I've got a project where I render a small bitmap (22 pixels x 22 pixels) using GDI+. This works fine on normal displaying and print previewing, but when I try to print it only the top left corner is printed. The call I'm using to draw the image is the following: myGraphics.DrawImage...more >>

hi, i've got a big problem with painting 4 or more than 4 control such as panel on a form. i have 4 panel that their width and height is 3000px on form and also a hscrollbal control that when i move the scroll bar the 4 panels move with it. but my problem is when i want to paint a grid on the ...more >>

#1 I have a panel that I have drawn to. I was wondering if there is an easy way to capture the panel to a bitmap? Or will I be forced to redraw everything to the bitmap? #2, can I easily take a snapshot of the client area of a child window? Thanks, Shane ...more >>

Hi All, I am in a bit of a bind, i have an application that is always on top. Now this will sit on top of another application that must be run in 256 colours (legacy control systems app -- yuck). Now when the top application has focus the colours on the bottom application stop flashing, and it ...more >>

Hi, I am using a graphics path to house a string that I want to rotate by 180 degrees whilst leaving other strings unchanged on my printed page (hence I have used the graphics path and not e.Graphics.TranslateTransform(0, 0, MatrixOrder.Append) to rotate my string). I have managed to solve...more >>

The DrawString documentation is quite clear that font fallback exists - you can disable it with a StringFormat flag. However, I'm unable to take advantage of it. This question was asked a couple of years ago by someone else, but never got a reply. What I want to do is draw a string in a par...more >>

Hi, I have the query on how can i draw the 3d border around the Shpaes (Rectangle or circle) added to windows forms using the GDI+ I was trying with ControlPaint.Draw3DBorder but it fills the shape with COntrol Color. THnaks Vikash ...more >>