I know how to copy a bitmap to a picturebox.image but how do I copy the bitmap to the form?
Example:
I want to create a form 1600x1200 and put a 1600x1200 image on the form to cover the entire surface.
Then I want to put several pictureboxes 256x40 (Tool Bars) at different locations on the form.
If pictureboxA is at x32, y32 on the form, I want to copy from the form at x32, y32 256x40 to the picturebox.image then draw
the buttons on the pictureboxA.
I know how to load a .jpg or .bmp to the form from a file. This won't work for my purpose.
If there is no fix for this then the only thing I could do would be to create the bitmap then save it to a file, then reload the file to the form. I want to avoid this... It takes up time :(
Edit: Fixed, I created a compatibleDC for the graphics object, and a handle for the bitmap (using b.gethbitmap), then used the SelectObject function inside GDI to select those two, and used the compatibleDC instead of hDc in the BitBlt function I've been trying to draw a bitmap to the screen (device 0), however I have encountered a problem copying the graphics using BitBlt.
Initially, I was drawing directly to the desktop using SetPixel (gdi32), but it was slow, so now I am setting the pixels of a bitmap object and then creating graphics from that object, and copying the hdc of the graphics to the screen.My guess is that I am adding the HDC of the graphics object to an intptr, which essentially gives me the HDC of the container of the graphics object, which is not what I need. However even so, I have not found any information on how I could copy a bitmap to a device other than using BitBlt.
This is my current code (Windows forms app, textbox, button) The textbox is the device to copy to, and the button starts it. For testing purposes, set the textbox text to 0, and press the button. You should see a black box (50x50px) in the top left corner of your screen. The colour should be blue if it is working correctly:
Public Class Form1 Declare Function GetDC Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As Int32) As Int32 Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As Int32, ByVal hdc As Int32) As Int32
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The way it works is it calls the function setpx, given a location and color from within a loop iterating through all of the pixels in a box (50x50 in my code). The setpx function will then call the setpixel fuction on a bitmap b. This part is working fine.Next, it will define a graphics object g from the bitmap, and I use BitBlt to copy g's hdc (g.gethdc) to the screen. This is not working correctly?
I am trying to take a snapshot, or a copy of a control, for a bitmap. I'm wanting to do this to a listbox, but part of the listbox may be hidden.On the mouse_down event I need to get the snapshot of the whole listbox (even though parts may be hidden behind other controls, I need the whole listbox) and draw it to the screen in the same location as the original listbox (but the hidden parts still stay hidden behind the other controls on the bitmap).
On the mouse_move event I need to move the snapshot up/down based on mouse movement. This also moves the listbox up/down and this code is done. I will just move the snapshot of the listbox the same way as the original listbox.On the mouse_up event, I will dispose the bitmap and display the original listbox again.
I am doing this because moving a listbox up/down is really messy. It's a custom drawn listbox and looks horrible moving, so I figured if I could snapshot it, move the bitmap while visible, and listbox behind the scenes, it will flow smoothly and no one would notice I am scrolling a bitmap instead.
Double buffering the form and listbox didn't help . I've done some graphics.drawstring before, but not much on other graphics.
I'm using Bitmap to show picture box like slideshow using Timer. For each timer interval, I've to go for new instance of Bitmap, there System memory increases to 1MB, How to resolve this, 'BG is picture box
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tic Dim img As Bitmap
img = New Bitmap(System.Drawing.Bitmap.FromFile(FileIO.FileSystem.GetFiles
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Obviously, when I publish and distribute to clients, the file won't be there.[code...]
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i don't have any codes yet, ain't asking you to do my homework but if anyone knows an solution, or can get me some hint. i tried searching all over the web but can't manage to get the buttons pressed at the same moment.
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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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