Load from resources, or draw them myself
Hi All I was just wondering, is there any benefit in me drawing my own buttons (just rectangles) over loading 80 of them from resources? Thanks ...
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doublebuffering not reducing the flicker
I am drawing an grid-work of objects in a Panel. when I scroll the the panel quickly I get a flicker. I thought that enabling the double buffering may take care of this but what I find is that it does not completely draw everything and I am left with blank sections. could anyone give me suggestions as to what may be happening and how I m...
GDI+ not clearing my window on repaint for vista
on WM_PAINT i do the following: //RectF mNameRect; //WCHAR* mName; //HWND mWin; // this is the window handle { PAINTSTRUCT ps; HDC hdc = BeginPaint(mWin, &ps); Graphics g(hdc); g.Clear(Color::White); StringFormat stringForm; stringForm.SetLineAlignment(StringAlignmentCenter); stringForm.SetAlignment(StringAlignmentCenter); // set the...
Need Help Setting an Image with Transparent Background to Clipboard
I need help setting a transparent image to the clipboard. I keep getting "handle is invalid". Basically, I need a "second set of eyes" to look over the following code. (The complete working project at ftp://missico.net/ImageVisualizer.zip.) This is an image Debug Visualizer class library, but I made the included project to run as an exe...
Graphics framework choice for Mono compatible application.
I have an application that has some controls that use GDI+, mostly simple stuff with low graphics rendering requirements although I do have a couple of animated GDI+ windows that are borederline usable because of poor GDI+ performance. Moving forward I would like to start using WPF (for performance and to learn WPF) but I also like to k...
Game loop in Win32 API
I'm creating game mario like in win32 GDI . I've implemented the new loop for game : PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_NOREMOVE); while (msg.message!=WM_QUIT) { if (PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } else // No message to do { gGameMain->GameLoop(...
Repaint window problems
#include "stdafx.h" // Mario Headers #include "GameMain.h" #define MAX_LOADSTRING 100 // Global Variables: HINSTANCE hInst; // current instance TCHAR szTitle[MAX_LOADSTRING]; // The title bar text TCHAR szWindowClass[MAX_LOADSTRING]; // the main window class name // Mario glo...
Display the next frame of sprite GDI
I've a sprite which contains a lot of images. I see the BitBlt only display the position and imageWidth and imageHeight. If I want to display a bitmap but only from Width[24] to Width[48] not from the beginning of that bitmap Thanks for reading this :) ...
How can I create a Base64-Encoded string from a GDI+ Image in C++?
I asked a question recently, How can I create an Image in GDI+ from a Base64-Encoded string in C++?, which got a response that led me to the answer. Now I need to do the opposite - I have an Image in GDI+ whose image data I need to turn into a Base64-Encoded string. Due to its nature, it's not straightforward. The crux of the issue is ...
WinForms GDI+ Polygon Events and custom shaped panels
I have converted postcode boundary polygons to point data (point[] for each polygon) from GIS Shape Files. I am wanting to show this in a c# windows forms application. I have managed to show this using the System.Drawing (GDI+) DrawPolygon() method. Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics(); Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Black); Brush brush = new ...
Does MS Access 2010 have Tif image control display issue?
We run MS Access as the front end for most of our business. When we upgraded from Access 2000 to Access 2003 the image control we used to print out Tif images failed to load Tifs anymore. A bit of Googling showed that MS did this intentionally and I'm wondering if the problem still happens in Access 2010. Can someone with a downloaded ...
Can I get a bitmap of an arbitrary window in another application process?
I am trying to automate a third-party Win32 application where I want to capture the graphics content of a particular window at defined time intervals. I am in the early phases of this, and I'm currently trying to use the Microsoft UI Automation API via C# to do most of the interaction between my client app and the external app. I can n...
Preserving Bitmap values when creating a new Bitmap from System.Drawing.Image
I'm trying to create a resized image from a bitmap, set a new height/width and a new resolution and save it to PNG. I can do this either from directly A) Image.FromFile(filename) or B) New Bitmap(imageSource) to create the the A Bitmap to be passed to B. Both work okay schmokay, but A does not allow me to set a new width/height on creati...
Drawing a relative line in C#
Guys, I know this is going to turn out to be a simple answer, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a C# Winform application that I am trying to build. I am trying to draw a white line 60 pixels above the bottom of the form. I am using this code: private void MainForm_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { e.Graphics.DrawLine(...
Screen capture code produces black bitmap
I need to add the ability to take a screenshot of the entire screen, not just the current window. The following code produces a bmp file with the correct dimensions, but the image is completely black. What am I doing wrong? void CaptureScreen(LPCTSTR lpszFilePathName) { BITMAPFILEHEADER bmfHeader; BITMAPINFO ...
Looking for help with a design for a simple C# calendar app.
As a personal project, I'm putting together a C# WPF calendar. I'm stuck on coding the calendar screen - specifically, the 5x7 grid of days. I've first tried to code it using elements like Panels, Labels, and Buttons. I've decided that was too cumbersome. I've then decided to use GDI to draw the calendar myself. I now have a wonderful...
C# GDI+ Image Resize Function
So my logic is flawed and I need a better and correct way to resize an image in my c# app I need a function similar to this setup public void ResizeImageForWeb(string OriginalFile, string NewFile, int MaxWidth, int MaxHeight, int Quality) { // Resize Code } Basically, I'm a web designer lost trying to programming a desktop app. ...
Winforms fixed single border on custom shaped control
Hi all, I have created a custom control inheriting from a panel in .NET 3.5 The panel has a custom polygon border, which comes from a pointF array (In diagram, control is highlighted yellow). Fig 1 shows the control with BorderStyle none. Fig 2 with BorderStyle fixed-single As shown in Fig 2, the border follows the Rectangle bounding...
How to reverse PNG for drawing
I make game Mario and I want when I use left key < , the character will turn his head to left :-? How can I implement that ? Thanks for reading this :) ...
Draw to an Image
I'm new to GDI+ and I don't know how to draw to an Image. I've a matrix ( game map ) and tiles, Can I create an Image or a Bitmap, then I draw everything on it, so I can work with it likes an Image I load from resources. Thanks so much :) ...