I'm thinking of writing few blogs on arrays and linked list and for that I need some good drawing tool for drawing images to explain the concept and the logic. I don't want to copy/paste images from other source so if anyone among you knows about any such tool in which I can create images fast and similar to ones given in books and on ot...
I am currently painting a light blue, partly transparent overlay over owner-drawn objects to indicate certain state. It's OK but I thought that it would be even nicer if I could at some sort of glass effect to further establish the idea that the particular object has "something" overlaid over the top of it. I thought that some glass str...
Various controls (mostly labels and panels) on my fairly simple c# WinForm form are not painted when the form is shown. They finish being painted about a half second after the form is shown. Is there an easy fix to this? More details: The panel that paint the slowest displays some data read from an SQL database. The data is painted,...
Say I'm creating a raster-based paint program. My brush is ellipse-shaped. The user clicks and then drags the mouse to paint an area. I now have two points: pointA (where they clicked) and pointB (the first point returned from the mouse-drag). I want to fill in all pixels that fall within the brush region. What's the best way to do ...
Hi, I'm not very good at this and I hope to get some help from people who understands the issue a lot more that I do. So here's the deal. In my application there is background JPanel with Image drawn over it. Then there is a small JPanel which I'm trying to create custom painting for. I wanted to have JPanel with rounded corners and s...
I have a TPanel with WS_EX_COMPOSITED window style and a lot of controls with WS_EX_TRANSAPARENT style. Some of those controls uses GDI and some GDI+. It seems ok for those controls using GDI but I can't see the controls drawn by GDI+. I also noticed that setting WS_EX_COMPOSITED seems to sends an infinite WM_Paint that is why the GDI+ ...