I am trying to copy the contents of one graphics object to another, but the only was I have been able to find is based on using GDI32.DLL, which i would rather avoid using if possible.Does anyone know how/if this is possible using managed code? I don't mind if answers are in C# or VB.Net.
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I am making a lunar lander game that randomizes the terrain for each new game, so each game is different. For my game, I am creating a graphics object that draws a closed curve for the terrain of the game. I am trying to then detect if a picture object collides with the graphics object.[code]...
View 1 Repliesi have drawn on a e.graphics object and now want to transfer the drawn stuff onto a bitmap object how can i do this?
View 2 RepliesIn VB.net, when I retrieve a value from a list do I get a copy of that value or a reference to it?
dim blah as someObject
dim listOfBlahs as list(of someObject)
listOfBlah.add(new someObject(1))
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When I do my form_paint event, I have quite a lot to redraw, so I'm breaking into into severals subs to make it easier to read. I'm passing the 'e' variable into my subs as shown below, is this correct?
Private Sub frmMain_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
DrawMap(e)
End Sub
Private Sub DrawMap(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
End Sub
Am I right in copying that whole 'e as system.windows....' etc line from the form_paint details into my subs details?Just to clarify, the sub will draw directly onto the form.
Is there a way to create an image from a graphics object?
View 3 RepliesWe would like to know whether there is any way to interrogate a Graphics object and determine whether it is to be used to print or to render to some other canvas. We're aware of an API call that can be used but would prefer to avoid that route if possible. There's also the possibility of simply passing a flag in with the Graphics object that is True from a PrintPage event handler and False from elsewhere, but that's not ideal either. We're looking for a managed property or method accessible via the Graphics class itself, but nothing's jumping out.
View 20 RepliesI have been trying to draw spirals in vb.net. Here's a link to the formula [URL]. here's what I was trying to do. The code below is just drawing points which I was later going to edit to connect from point to point as soon as i got the spiral function working.
Function Draw()
Dim iImageCenterPointH As Integer = pbOut.Height / 2
Dim iImageCenterPointW As Integer = pbOut.Width / 2
Dim iCircleSpace As Integer = 10
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I am not 100% the output is matching the formula here's what I am getting atm ...
I need serious advice here please. I use Visual Basic Graphics Programming by Rod Stephens as a reference, and I have visited his site vb-helper.com to try some of his tutorials. I tried the scribble application and it's working out fine (you can download the snippet from his site).
What I have trouble with is zooming in. I am not sure where to start. I would like to zoom in to x2, x3 and etc. of the bitmap I am working on and I would like to be able to continue to edit the bitmap. This would mean that I have a larger pixel brush under the mouse cursor, to lay down pixels. So a x2 zoom would mean a 2 x 2 pixel.
Has someone done this. Do you have a reference I can use for this. This kind of editing is standard in almost every paint package. Even Microsoft Paint, but there is not too much basic information on how it fits together in code for vb .net. So I am looking for someone to point me in the right direction. As I said, I am using the scribble application as a base, so here is the link. [URL]..
I have a scanned document in my system. It's a tiff file. You will see below the code i have written. The problem is that i get an error message. The message is like this "A Graphics object cannot be created from an image that has an indexed pixel format." [Code]
View 3 RepliesI need to make a basic drawing program in VB that can do three things:
"Draw" with a brush of some sort
Clear the screen
Perform a flood-fill (paintbucket action)
I decided to do the first two tasks first, and got them to work, but the third task completely eludes me. Every way I try seems to pile on exceptions, and every flood-fill algorithm I find seems to require a bitmap, rather than a Graphics() object. Is there any way to accomplish a flood-fill using a Graphics object, or must I restart the project using a bitmap?
Source code for reference:
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In VB.NET, I need to create an Image based on a Graphics object I have. However, there is no method such as Image.fromGraphics() etc. What should I do then?
View 2 RepliesThis is another question about my galaga like game. I want the enemies to move to a random spot one pixel away at each tick of a timer. How would I go about doing this?
View 6 RepliesI currently have a graphics object g where I am drawing lines and ellipses on with the command
g.DrawEllipse(definedPen, Fc, Fr, Tc, Tr)
g.DrawLine(definedPen, Fc, Fr, Tc, Tr)
This works fine. However what I can�t find out how to do is place text onto the graphics object at a specified row & column.
Pretty self-explanatory question. I'm trying to see if I can do sprite animation in Visual Basic and, while I can use a Graphics object to translate a bitmap down a few pixels, I have absolutely no idea how to erase the bitmap drawn in its former position. Is there any way to erase the old image before the new image is drawn onto the form?
View 14 RepliesThis little experiment was a test prompted by a previous thread to learn to work in a graphics object, then paint everything later to a picturebox (later, will be looking at building own custom control for the display), and save out the bitmap to a file on the HD.But weird things happen here. Nothing will display in the picturebox, and the saved bitmap is just a black box.The only partial success I had was replacing: e.Graphics.DrawImage(MyBitmap, 0, 0)
with,
PictureBox1.image = MyBitmap
inside the paint event handler, but that caused infinite recursion of the paint event. But at least I could see parts of the graphic for a fraction of a second before it was wiped clean, every time I clicked the "Go_cmd" button. But what is weird is that this partial success showed that the graphics object was copying successfully over to the bitmap image (because I could briefly see parts of it in the picturebox, but the saved file would still come out black, even though it was based on the same bitmap!The code is as follows.Above the form1 class
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
The single declaration:
Public MyBitmap As Bitmap
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The code in the version shown above would not even show a brief moment of the graphics in the picturebox, and the saved .bmp file is just a filled black box.
I want to draw a text with 32 bit transparency on a graphics object. When I try, I only get black color in the result.
If I try to draw a line with the same semitransparent color, it works perfectly.
I have this code:
lBitmap As New Bitmap(32, 32, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb)
lGraphic As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(lBitmap)
lGraphic.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality
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I was thinking it may be that SolidBrush does not support transparency, but I found a predefined brush named Transparent (Brushes.Transparent) that was a SolidBrush when I looked at it in debug. I tried to use Brushes.Transparent as the brush when drawing the text, and it was successfully not showing at all. That means I get full transparency to work, but not partial transparency.
How can i change the backcolor property of an object to an rgb value?
i do as it says in the help:
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dim ink as long
ink = rgb(233,126,190)
lblInkPot.BackColor = ink
but i get the error "Value of type "Long" cannot be converted to "system.drawing.color"", but it specifically tells you in help to use "long"...
I tried to create a lineshape and make it visible when a timer ticks. Also tried to set everything that would matter when creating it(border colors and thickness etc)
But still, I got no results.
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Dim line = New Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.LineShape(CX, CY, ccx, ccy)
line.Parent = New Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.ShapeContainer()
line.Enabled = True
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I know that you can pass a Point array to the DrawImage method of the Graphics object to apply rotation, skewing and flipping, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to calculate the rotation. So far I've got:
Dim radius As Integer = Math.Sqrt((rect.Width / 2) ^ 2 + (rect.Height / 2) ^ 2)
Dim dX As Integer = RadToDeg(Math.Cos(DegToRad(angle))) * radius
Dim dY As Integer = RadToDeg(Math.Tan(DegToRad(angle))) * dX
Dim new_upper_left_corner As New Point(rect.X + (rect.Width 2) - dX, rect.Y + (rect.Height 2) - dY)
This is all just off the top of my head so far, I'm not sure if it's right. How do I calculate the other points on the rectangle, and is there a built-in VB.NET method that's much easier? (Apart from Graphics.RotateTransform, which is slow and also rotates around 0,0.)
I was wondering if there is a library or code snippet available for .NET (or that I can translate to .NET) to display animated PNG files (on the Graphics object, or even in a custom control)?
View 1 Replies.net 3.5, VS 2010... this is for an asp.net website.I have an class called Agency. there is a second class called Agency_Queries. Agency_Queries inhertis the Agency class. I'm trying to create a function that will copy the like properties in Agency to Agency_Queries. I figured out how to do that.. but when i try to make it more generic so that i can pass in my class name and lists i'm doing something wrong.So if there is an list(of Agency) that needs to be copied to list(of Agency_Queries) i've got something like the following.
Dim AgencyS As List(Of Agency) = Nothing
Dim Oc As New Agency_Controller
AgencyS = Oc.GetAgencyData(0)
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I have an class called Agency. there is a second class called Agency_Queries.Agency_Queries inhertis the Agency class. I'm trying to create a function that will copy the like properties in Agency to Agency_Queries. I figured out how to do that.. but when i try to make it more generic so that i can pass in my class name and lists i'm doing something wrong.
How can I copy an object? When I use obj1 = oby2 I copy only the pointer. I know some objects have the methode .clone. But What's about the other ones? Some objects (for example a button) I can copy of course by creating a new object and set each property. (btn1.Left = btn2.Left) But that works rarly. And of course what's about my own classes? Is there now change to copy them like you can do it for example in C++...?
View 13 RepliesI am building an ASP.NET application that needs dynamic tables. That's another issue that I've already posted about (and gotten a pretty good response!). Now, I'm running into another issue - I want to add new rows to my table, but given that I will have 10-12 tables on one page, each containing different objects in their rows (text boxes, check boxes, etc.) I need a way of simply generically adding a new row that has the same objects as the first row in the table. Here's my code:
Private Sub AddTableRow(ByRef originalTable As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Table)
Dim originalRow As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TableRow = originalTable.Rows(1)
Dim insertingRow As New System.Web.UI.WebControls.TableRow[code]......
Stepping through with a debugger, I see that this strategy is working - but the additional table row still doesn't appear...and still does when I do this statically.
i am drawing a string to a graphics object in the eg below and then transfering it onto a e.graphics in the paint event of a panel... when doing this the font edges appear dodgey...
Here is some
Dim b As New Bitmap(100, 100)
Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(b)
g.DrawString("Bla Bla Bla", New Font("Comic Sans MS", 18,FontStyle.Bold), New LinearGradientBrush(g.ClipBounds, Color.Red,
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I have a form which has a ListView and buttons to add/edit/delete items from this list. It has a save & a cancel button. On pressing the cancel button, I want to revert all the changes that have been done in the current form. So, while loading the form I keep a copy of the original list like below.
backupMyListView = MyListView
In the cancel button code, I do the opposite.
MyListView = refMyListView
Whats happening is that, the original listview is never restored because everytime MyListView was updated, backupMyListView also was getting updated.
How do I restore the original ListView on pressing the cancel button?
i have a user define object which i'm initializing with data from external datafiles.... the purpose of this object is to reduce the amount of disk/data access and processing required every time i need to add an instance of this object to a collection.so, whenever i add a copy of this object to a collection, i would simply reference the "base" object, and avoid having to process all the data and perform the conversion and so on...the issue is when i add the object
Collection.add(Base_Object, Key)
the collection ITEM is a Reference to the base object and not a copy.
Is there any method or a way to copy a form object to a variable? Let me explain this - We have a method called "Copy" for the Dataset class & you all must be knowing that there is a difference between the below two lines of code: DsTemp = Ds DsTemp = Ds.Copy()
In the first line of code, any changes made to Ds will reflect in DsTemp. However, in the second line of code, any changes made to Ds will not reflect in DsTemp because we are only "copying" the contents & schema of Ds. Likewise is there a method or a work around to "copy" a Form object?
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Rather than giving the very specific case (which I did earlier), let me give a general example. Let's say that I have a function, called callingFunction. It has one parameter, called parameter. Parameter is of an unknown type. Let us then say that I wish to copy this parameter, and return it as a new object. For example, in pseudo code, something along the lines of...
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EDIT: Additional Information The first time I posted this question, I received only one response - I felt that perhaps I made the question too specific. I guess I will explain more, I have an ASP page with 10 tables on it. I am trying, using the VB code behind, to come up with a single solution to add new rows to any table. When the user clicks a button, a generic "add row" function should be called.
The difficulty lies in the fact that I have no guarantee of the contents of any table. A new row will have the same contents as the row above it, but given that there are 10 tables, 1 row could contain any number of objects - text boxes, check boxes, etc. So I want to create a generic object, make it of the same type as the row above it, then add it to a new cell, then to a new row, then to the table.
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