Hello, I have the following problem: I have two controls ctrlA, ctrlB, both use a font and have a Font-Property, for example like TextBox. Now I have ONE Font f and write: ctrlA.Font = f; ctrlB.Font = f; later I have to other fonts f01, f02 ctrlA.Font = f01; ctrlB.Font = f02 No...more >>

....and why do we need to pass the HRGN when it is sured stored internally somewhere? ...more >>

Hi, Im developing a small control which could be compared to Bob Powell's ZoomPicBox but with a few differences. My control draws an image inside a 1px frame and also adds a dropshadow to it. Im debating on how to implement the Zoom and Pan features in this control. I can use the ScaleTr...more >>

C# Irregular shaped user controls. How to make usercontrol have transparency key for its background image? I want to have irregular shaped user controls on my form. like a funny shaped button. This works fine for irregular shaped forms becuase they have a transparency key field, but user co...more >>

Hello - I'm using VB.NET 2005 and trying to get a handle on the PrintDocument thing. I can print my document OK, but I need to know how to force a page break. In the old days I'd simply tack a form feed CHR(12) at the spot where I want the break, but PrintDocument ignores that and prints a ...more >>

I have developed subs to resample images, as well as all kinds of other things. I deal with scanned exhibits that are typically 36" wide by whatever long. I have one that is 115 inches long. If this is scanned at 600 dpi, I get a tif with pixel dimensions of 21000 x 69000. I do understand the id...more >>

I have a simple program private void butLoad1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.pic1.Load("vv_s01.gif"); } loads a gif file into the image of a picturebox. Then private void butSend_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ...more >>

I am using IronPython to put program generated ink drawings onto the clipboard. This works great on my desktop PC (on which .NET Framework 3.0, IronPython 1.0.1, and the XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit Version 1.7 are installed). The same code fails, however, on a tablet PC (on ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering how would I be able to get a brush and draw over an image that would give an effect similar to this: http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8319/f9bfe00ee782c7812265lpg5.jpg Also, how would I be able to have an edge effect like this one: http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/22...more >>

I have coded a class that uses the bitmap class to generate graphics from True Type fonts. I'm using it primarily to render 3 of 9 barcodes from a True Type font. When the exact same code is used to generate a barcode from some Web servers the barcodes print nice and clean. From other Web s...more >>

Hello I have a RichTextBox in my .NET application. Is there a way to measure the length of the appeared string in it? I mean is there something like Graphics.MeasureString method that accepts MyRichTextBox.Rtf as the input instead of a simple text? Thanks in advance Hamed ...more >>

Hi, I'm in the process of developing an app to scan and archive photos based upon the EXIF/Photo Keyword property. One of the requirements is that the Photo's keywords be editable via Digital Image Suite 2006 Library . Then the app will look for a specific keyword, change the keyword to indic...more >>

Hi, I'm doing alot of investigating about GDI+ performance and best practices to get the best possible performance in my application when rendering images. I've understood that the best thing to do it to work with 32bppPArgb internally in your application, i.e. if you load an image into you...more >>

Hi, I am trying to draw a cursor (the currently active cursor onto a bitmap). I have a target Bitmap setup to draw into, I get the handle to the current Cursor using Win32 API GetCursorInfo(), then I am passing this HCURSOR into the constructor of a new GDI+ Bitmap. I was going to then draw...more >>

does anyone see what is wrong with my .gif download logic? no matter what image url i try it downloads a junk file that can't be opened in any paint program. System.Net.WebRequest myRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url); System.Net.WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse(); S...more >>

how to get the System.Drawing.Point of FormStartPosition, e.g. if i want to recenter the form on the screen at some point other then startup. ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm wondering how can i calculate the correct height and width to fit an image, after i perform a Shear to it? Thanks, Reymar *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

Hi there, Can anyone help me understand what the advent of WPF means for GDI+? Will GDI+ become obsolete or does continue to used for raster images etc.? Thanks in advance John ...more >>

Hi, I'm currently working on an application for my dissertation for my final year at University. I'm having a little trouble with the System.Drawing.Region class. The application is being designed to help create and study the use of Euler/Venn diagrams, the user can draw various shapes wh...more >>

Hi, I have a need to implement a custom zoom algorithm (to control the dimension of the scaled pixels) so I have turned to GDI interop to solve this. The zoom is being performed in a user control and I draw directly on the control surface. The zoom it self works just fine, but it's the perf...more >>

Hello All, I am attempting to set the background image of a panel that fills the entire form a gif that has transparent corners. The alpha for all the corners of the gif is 0. Once the panel's Background image is set to the gif and the form is displayed, the transparent corners appear '...more >>

Hi guys, i'm trying to print a collection of pages to a printpreviewdialog. Pages wants to have different PaperSize each other. I've tried to change PaperSize inside QueryPageSettings event handler but PageBounds and MarginBounds retain their old values. How can I do? My documents have ...more >>

I'm rendering several objects onto the surface of a form, and I want to allow my users to scroll and zoom in/out. Each one of my objects has a method called RenderToDC which accepts 1) the graphics object, 2) x location, 3) y location. Dim mx As New Drawing2D.Matrix(mZoomFactor, 0, 0, mZoomFa...more >>

Hi again Is it possible to join 2 GraphicsPath into a single one? I need a union of more pathes without the inner lines, i.e. if I have 2 ellipse that overlaps I'd like to have just the outlines of both (I hope I was clear :) ) Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all! Someone can tell me if it is possible to get a brus with a gaussian blur? And a radial gradient? And a radial gradient with blur? :) Thanks ...more >>

Are the following all valid extensions for files read by windows? Are the paired ones equivalent? Is EXIF and extension or is it used in some other way? Thanks for any help JPG;JPEG TIF;TIFF ICO;ICON EXIF ...more >>

Hello, I have a web application that throws an error Initializing a font. The behavior is unpredictable, and occurs only in one form of my ap. I try to initialize a report The form contains two ActiveReport Graphs and several labels. I have another form with an Active Report graph a...more >>

Dear all, I am developing web application using asp.net C#(Visual Studio 2005) I want to know Is it possible to to draw based on data. if possible please give me some link or Example. thanks...more >>

Hi guys, i'm trying to print a picturebox image with the SizeMode property set to Zoom. With DrawImage I can't get the size of the image inside the picturebox because i get all of the displayrectangle instead. There is a fast method to do this? Mauro...more >>

Hello, I am trying to make a freehand drawing application with zoom capability and a grid so that I can change each pixel by hand, much like the bitmap resource editor of Visual Studio. I have tried to use the ZoomPicBox component developed by Bob Powell with some modifications. I am still ha...more >>

I'm rendering text (DrawString) and images (DrawImage). The output looks great on screen and looks great when printing to a printer (both Laser and Inkjet). When printing to Adobe PDF (which is what my users will mostly be doing), the sections rendered using DrawString look great, but the im...more >>

Hi, I want to be able to draw boxes and connect them with lines just like you will do in an organization chart and also allow the user to be able to move, drag & drop those boxes around. Is there any sample code anyone has (in C#) that can help me get started, or is there any book that can b...more >>

I need to read a bitmap file containing a signature and convert it to a PCL file. I can print the bitmap to a file printer using the HP PCL driver and this produces a file that I can use. I am using the System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument object and setting the PrinterSettings to spe...more >>

Hi, I want to create a WMF/EMF file in a console application using C#, however, I failed to create an empty Metafile object. As much as I can tell, the various Metafile constrctors require an existing file or a IntPtr to a device context. As this a console application I do not have a form fro...more >>

I am using VS2003 with 1.1 I have this font file xxx.fon and i would like to drawstring by using this font ...... i am unable to find any help on this while i googled ...... ur help is appreciated ...... ...more >>

I'm attempting to do a simple slideshow application. I came a cross this article by Bob Powell. http://www.bobpowell.net/WellFormed_April_2004.htm I could really use any information from the first article (Image Transitions) in that particular magazine. I couldn't find a way to subscribe...more >>

I want to make my entire bitmap 50% transparent when it draws. Is there a way to either... 1) set the alpha channels of all pixels in a bitmap object at once? 2) specify an alpha value just for drawing the bitmap? Thanks, Mike ...more >>

Hi. (I already posted this question in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp, but this one is updated) I have a problem. When drawing into a graphics context I sometimes get access violation exceptions and I can't figure out why. It seems to have to do with the use of custom dashes. If ...more >>

When you use the Shear method, the 2 corners of the image are moved together and the image becomes a parallelogram. But how to shear the image by moving only a corner of the image? Or is there another method which do the job? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I've been working on a website and i need to resize uploaded pictures and stuff. Everything works fine with Image.fromstream method but there seems to be a simple problem, I created a simple solid blue jpg file which is 10000x10000 pixel size. Only 500 bytes as its jpg. But if i upload that...more >>

Hi All, I am new to .Net and Compact Framework. So I have a really basic question for you all. I am building an application in C# for Windows Mobile 5.0 in VS2005 CF2.0 I would like this application to have some customizable features with out having to recompile. ...more >>

Since .Net 2.0 has more support for vector graphics (Metafiles) this can be put to use on a so called "resolution free" GUI. However a big problem appeared here. The rendered metafile object does not use antialiasing and as a result it looks pretty rough on the screen. As a simple test one ...more >>

Hi, I need to draw some text using TextRenderer.DrawText, and to underline some of the words. Therefore of course I need to know where to do graphics.DrawLine(...). To begin with I figured out where the baseline was for each line of text using a loop like this; void ComputeBaselines...more >>

Hello all. Newbie here looking for resources related to mulipage Tiff's in vb.net. My current plans are to capture PCL prints from and AS400 and convert those PCL's to multipage TIFF's. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Most commonly I am looking for direct answers like.. You cant...more >>

I've written an app that takes in various format images from file and makes certain changes to the image. I eventually got it working using Image.FromFile: mOriginalImage = Image.FromFile(mSourceURL) but of course this locks the original until the bitmap is disposed of. Next I tried ...more >>