Don't use MS Shell Dlg for your font. Select a specific font (and I recommend selecting one that comes with a standard Windows install). I use Arial (I like it better than MS San Serif).EDIT =============I don't understand why this was voted a 3. You may not LIKE the answer, but it's...

C++

Mobile

Windows

GDI

About StretchDIBits

25 Jan 2010 by #realJSOP

You're allocating memory for the image. In order to do that, you need to allocate memory for each pixel and the desired color depth of that image. That's what the 32*32*5 does.

GDI

Read values from USB and use them to draw a curve

18 Apr 2010 by #realJSOP

Check out rent-a-coder. They have people there that love working for almost nothing.

C++

GDI

Paint Application in MFC

30 Nov 2010 by #realJSOP

Look at the scribble sample project provided by microsoft.

is it possible to have another program toolbox in my form?

30 Nov 2011 by #realJSOP

I think what you're asking is impossible, and even if it wasn't, it's most likely against the AutoCAD EULA.Beyond all of that, a toolbar is just a control. You won't necessarily get the code that supports it just because you can display the actual toolbar.

GDI

Dynamic Graphics Using C Sharp

16 Dec 2011 by #realJSOP

That's certainly possible. I'm doing something like that in an app I'm writing, and I'll try to formulate an answer you can actually use.In my case, I created a custom control derived from the Panel control. I then overrode the Paint method, and put code in to draw an image in the specified...

WinForms

GDI

Antialiasing: Wu Algorithm

6 Nov 2007 by .Suchit

Generating smooth lines with antialiasing; sample code for animation is included

Best way to invalidate an area

14 May 2010 by 23_444

I need to invalidate different areas on a screen at the same time (occurring in the same function).I could invoke the InvalidateRect(&rc) for each area:InvalidateRect(&rc);InvalidateRect(&rc2);or I could create a region and add the rectangles to the region and then use...

C++

GDI

MFC

C# countdown timer xna`

22 Nov 2011 by :)9/11

if (yourmum = buttonState.pressed) setvibration(playerindex.me,1,69)else { fatness++; }if (fatCountingUp > 300kg); (setBiggestLoserShow = true);else { (setBiggestLoserShow = MEGAtrue); }if (codDisc = broken); (YouDumpGirlfriend);else { ...

StretchBlt MFC C++ problem

20 Apr 2010 by @Intersect☺™

Try to clean your DC before you change your resolution. It will produce a great effect I believe.

C++

GDI

MFC

Writing SQL queries in XML – A support intensive approach

31 Jul 2005 by _Asif_

Article that helps writing SQL in XML to provide better support

Postioning Data Field (Arabic) in Image Template

12 Jul 2013 by Abdelrahman Ismaeel Hegazy

Save image map portions for any image for later using in web or in printing using an image.

.NET

GDI

How to write text to Black & White Image in C#

3 Dec 2009 by Abhishek Sur

I think this would help : http://chiragrdarji.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/generate-image-from-text-using-c-or-convert-text-in-to-image-using-c/[^]:thumbsup:

C#2.0

GDI

Reflected Image in C# with GDI and Unchecked Code

11 Apr 2022 by AdventureDriver

Creating a optionally sheared mirrored image from a source image in a collage

Drawing line over a bitmap loaded in WinCE, using GDI APIs

2 Apr 2012 by ajaiisnow

Hai, my requirement is to draw a line over a bitmap loaded into memory. i am working in WinCE. The code i wrote is like this, HGDIOBJ hPrevObj = 0; HGDIOBJ hPrevObj1 = 0; BOOL bStat = 0; dwError = ::GetLastError(); hDCMem =...

WinCE

GDI

Bitmap

Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

2 Nov 2019 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

.NET

.NET-Compiler-Platform

VisualStudio-Like TabControl

23 Aug 2016 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Inherits the awesome style of Visual Studio's TabControl for better exploiting

A Paint Program in MFC

29 Nov 2010 by Alain Rist

See the Scribble MFC sample[^].cheers,AR

IStream, Bitmap, CBitmap where is image data duplicated?

8 May 2011 by Alain Rist

Hi Quy,The Gdiplus::Bitmap object by itself produces no new data, it is just a connector to the relevant codec and the Gdiplus::Image data (your IStream). When you succesfully call pBitmap->GetHBITMAP(Color(0,0,0),&hBitmap); the Gdiplus::Image data are read (from your IStream) and a...

How can I get Win Explorer to show my MFC Doc/View document 32x32 Icon at full size...?

1 May 2011 by alan kitching

How can I get Win Explorer to show my MFC Doc/View document 32x32 Icon at full size...? IE: not reduced on a white background with "folded-corner document" outline...? I'm using C++ and Visual Studio. It seems the MFC architecture creates this reduced-form icon automatically, as it does with...

Rectangle on Desktop.

21 Jun 2011 by Albert Holguin

Well, you did tag it appropriately, the WinGDI would allow you to do that.There are plenty of articles here at CP:http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI/[^]

C++

GDI

A Paint Program in MFC

13 Jul 2011 by Albert Holguin

Invalidate() should only be called when the particular window needs to be redrawn. Maybe you're calling it when you shouldn't be called. In general, the paint routines will only be called when windows determines there's been a change to your drawing context area, either by a window being...

Comboling

14 Feb 2005 by Alberto_Martinez

Very addictive game that demonstrates some GDI, sound, and 100% solvable puzzle creation (from all the testing so far).

Have an Image fit to picturebox, zoom and move

23 Mar 2011 by Albin Abel

This demostrates fitting an image to the picturebox extend, zoom and move by transforming the picturebox device context/ graphics

GDI

image

Clickable areas in a picturebox

16 Mar 2011 by Albin Abel

Like HTML images, we can have clickable areas in a picturebox of windows application

GDI

Naming Common Colors

28 Jul 2001 by Ales Krajnc

An include file that allows you to specify colors by name instead of RGB value

Shell Extensibility - Explorer Desk Band, Tray Notification Icon et al.

28 Aug 2009 by Alex Blekhman

A simple Calendar utility that demonstrates basic Shell extensibility techniques: desk band, tray notification icon, locales.

Double Buffered DC Class

15 Jan 2004 by Alex Kolesnichenko

CDC descendant with double buffering abilities

Width of Text in Italic Font

25 Jul 2018 by Alexandru Matei

Shows an alternative to GetCharABCWidths and GetCharABCWidthsFloat

Windows CE button drawing performance problem

15 Aug 2010 by aliveli

Hi.I want to make a virtual keyboard on windows ce. So i'm creating about 40 buttons on a window dynamically. Everything is ok but when i want to show the window i can watch every button drawing by one by. I want to show all page at once and all buttons at the same time. How can i do it? Thanks.

C++

GDI

Creating a DIB from scratch

23 Nov 2009 by alleyes

Trying to create a simple DIB from performing a GlobalAlloc on a size of data, locking the data sing GlobalLock and returning a handle to the data, casted to a BITMAPINFO type. Using a loop to fill the bit data. The purpose of this is to create a test for an app that captures images from an ActiveX

GDI

Inexperienced win32 developer asks advice/instructions for optimizing/improving code for WM_PAINT and WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC handlers

4 Nov 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

INTRODUCTION AND RELEVANT INFORMATION:I have implemented complex painting of the main window’s background and its child static controls.The link to this picture shows how it looks:http://pbrd.co/1cx8DHd[^]Static controls have SS_NOTIFY style, which is important to mention, as certain...

GradientFill API doesn't perform as it should

10 Nov 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

INTRODUCTION AND RELEVANT INFORMATION:I want to create a static control with gradient background.I want to do it the following way:Create the gradient at the main window’s background, and then place transparent static control on top of that background.To do that, I have created...

C++

GDI

Win32

Static controls slightly flicker when main window is resized

5 Dec 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

INTRODUCTION AND RELEVANT INFORMATION:I have a complex painting to implement in my main window’s WM_PAINT handler.I have submitted a picture bellow to illustrate it:http://pbrd.co/18fNYYp[^]Main window has static controls, instead of buttons, which have style SS_NOTIFY.When...

Static controls slightly flicker when main window is resized

5 Dec 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

The problem was in SetWindowPos API.I am quoting the developer who helped me to solve this problem:" When the main window is resized the WM_SIZE handler moves the static child windows.When a child window is moved, Windows automatically copies the client area of the child control from...

Double buffering malfunctions (updated with small demo source code )

17 Dec 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

Default Win32 project has constant number of memory leaks

18 Dec 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

INTRODUCTION AND RELEVANT INFORMATION:The original project I work on has small memory leaks, so I have decided to perform a small test so I can detect what could cause them.I have created a Win32 project using Visual Studio wizard. I haven't added anything, I have just left it as it was...

C++

GDI

Win32

Default Win32 project has constant number of memory leaks

18 Dec 2013 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

I do not wish to steal other people's credits so I post here a link to the answer that I think explains really well what is the problem:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20664677/default-win32-project-has-constant-number-of-memory-leaks[^]

C++

GDI

Win32

Convert printable area of the paper, obtained by GetDeviceCaps, into RectF

14 Jun 2014 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

I am learning to use print property sheet so I can start learning printing by drawing a rectangle on the paper.My problem is that I do not have a printer, and am testing the results by printing to XPS file and MS Office OneNote 2007. I am drawing the rectangle with this code snippet ://...

Calculate ideal font size, based on the paper size and maximum allowed text length

28 Jun 2014 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff

I have printing code that draws grid on the paper.Grid has 4 columns, and they have equal horizontal length. Height of the cell is tenth of the paper size. Total number of rows is unknown but I know for a fact that there will be at least one row.Each cell has same physical size-> width...

Using "RDP Encoder Mirror Driver" to Capture Screen

27 Jan 2014 by Amazing LED Display

High Performance Method for Capturing Screen

Creating Holes in a Window

6 Feb 2000 by Amir Zalzberg

How to create a window with holes in it

SelectStockObject and DeleteObject

13 Sep 2012 by amsga

HiJust a quick question, do I need to delete an object if it is called from SelectStockObject?Msdn doesn't say much about whether or not I should delete it.

C++

GDI

Rectangle on Desktop.

21 Jun 2011 by Ananda_mr

Dear all, I need to write a program to create a rectangle on desktop, which will selects any portion of the desktop (It may include complete screen) and then I need to capture that portion. I know about capturing, but I don't which windows APIs I need to use to draw selection...

C++

GDI

Rectangle on Desktop.

21 Jun 2011 by Ananda_mr

Hi all, Thanks for your solutions.....I got a code to draw a rectangle by tracking mouse messages. I need to know how to handle mouse or keyboard messages posted by mouse movement anywhere on desktop even if it is on other windows. Only I know how to handle messages specific to a window....

C++

GDI

Screen capture performance test.

24 Jun 2011 by Ananda_mr

Dear all, I wrote code to capture screen (1024 * 786 resolution) using both GDI and DirectX, but I am doing a performance test, both GetDIBits (GDI) and GetFrontBufferdata(DirectX) taking more time ~600ms and also CPU utilization is around 17%. I am doubt about whether APIs are too slow...

DirectX

GDI

directshow

Regarding windows Hooks.

21 Jul 2011 by Ananda_mr

Dear sir,I read about hooks and related documentation. I am developing a screen capture application, I used GDI and Direct3D methods, now I am using polling method to capture screen. But this is affecting system performance. I am searching for a solution to know a way to learn active desktop...

C++

Windows

GDI

Mouse pointer creation.

10 Aug 2011 by Ananda_mr

Dear sir,I am working on Desktop Sharing. I need a way to capture mouse pointer coordinates at server side and to duplicate similar mouse at client side, this mouse pointer should be independent of client side computer local mouse actions. I know some APIs to get screen coordinates of global...

C++

GDI

Mouse pointer creation.

11 Aug 2011 by Ananda_mr

Dear Paul Heil and vivek511,This will help me to do in capture side. How can I create a similar cursor at remote machine within a windows with this information got at sender machine.Anand

C++

GDI

How do you draw a marquee using GDI functions

28 Jan 2011 by andrew_dk

Hi,In windows explorer if you hold the left mouse button down and move it around the window a blue translucent selection marquee appears. As you move the mouse around the marquee grows and all items touched by or inside the marquee are selected. I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to...

C++

GDI

CCustomBitmapButton - MFC Bitmap Button

17 Sep 2004 by Andrzej Markowski

An owner-draw bitmap button and a frame for the caption bar, in one class.

why StretchBlt allocated two times memory in windows 2003 than xp?

13 Oct 2011 by André Kraak

Perhaps this article[^] can help you determine the cause.

C++

Windows

GDI

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

14 Oct 2022 by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

Magnifying Cursor

27 Jan 2003 by Aniket Nayak

This cursor can magnify...

CAutoPen Class - A CPen that IS Correctly Destroyed

24 Nov 1999 by Anneke Sicherer-Roetman

CAutoPen Class - a CPen that is correctly destroyed

Paint Application in MFC

30 Nov 2010 by anonymous1310

Hi, I am developing a Ms Paint like application in MFC ,but I am having problem like i am not able to retain the drawn shape,as the window is getting repainted after invalidate is getting called,Please help me as I am kind a beginner in MFC .

2D Map Editor

8 Oct 2009 by Anthony Mushrow

Create and edit 2D maps using tiles

Animated Dialog Windows

17 Apr 2000 by Anton Stuck

A class that provides some simple, yet spectacular window animation effects. Try the demo!

E-mail Sender with HTML Editor & Quick Drawer

11 Nov 2009 by AntounPG

Send E-mail via Application with an HTML editor and a drawer to draw your own attachments and send them immediately.

Dynamic validation with Regular expression and ErrorProvider

3 Oct 2008 by Ardavan Sharifi

in this Article we following how to dynamic validation data with defind validation type and use of regular expression

A Simple Digital LCD Demo

28 Dec 2009 by Aric Wang

Just a simple digital LCD class and do not use an external bitmap.You can use and change it.

C++

VC6

GDI

Creating a DIB from scratch

23 Nov 2009 by AspDotNetDev

Sounds like you want to manually recreate a bitmap at the byte level. It's feasible; I once did that in high school when working with QuickBasic. You just need to review the file format (which is really simple) and get to coding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format

GDI

How to write text to Black & White Image in C#

5 Dec 2009 by AspDotNetDev

Check out "Bitonal (TIFF) Image Converter for .NET". You can create a "bitonal" (i.e., monochrome) image from a byte array. How you fill that array with color data is up to you. You can load it from a bitonal file (you can also get the byte array data from an image) or you could draw a 32-bit...

C#2.0

GDI

Alter the content before it is displayed on the Screen

11 Dec 2009 by AspDotNetDev

Of course. You have to get the data from somewhere before you display it (unless the user types it). Just mask it by replacing each character with an asterisk, for example. Or, if the user is typing it, you can use a texbox with masking enabled. And you can conditionally enable or disable the...

GDI

CCanvas - A Reusable Class to Draw a Simple Graph

26 Feb 2009 by auralius manurung

A reusable class for drawing a simple graph

2D LUA Based Robot Simulator

14 Apr 2014 by auralius manurung

An article on designing your own robot simulator

Alter the content before it is displayed on the Screen

18 Jan 2010 by avinash2010

Hey ppl, yea... I have been on this for quite sometime now and as you said I believe this can be cracked at the device drivers level only. We can use API(lang dependent or independent) for extracting the desired text which need to be provided to the device drivers. Coding at...

GDI

Why does function createpolygonrgn() fail?

19 Sep 2020 by Avtem

So i'm trying to create a digit clock using only WinAPI with C++ (see the screenshot)[^] Function drawDash() is called 7 times to draw one digit. i use Timer which redraws the digits every 100 milliseconds. Everything looks fine, but for...

A Simple HTML Drawing Class

5 Aug 2003 by BadJerry

Drawing HTML text onto a device context

Screensaver using EnumDisplayMonitors only draws black rectanlge on 2nd monitor

14 Sep 2011 by barneyman

the HWND you get passed is maximised over all monitors ...you're probably better off creating a child window per monitor during the WM_CREATE call if you want separate draw images

C++

GDI+

GDI

Digital Analog Clock

17 Aug 2002 by Barretto VN

Digital analog clock

Barry's Screen Capture

11 Jan 2003 by Barretto VN

An article showing methods of screen capture

Article on Screen Resolution

17 Apr 2003 by Barretto VN

Article on changing screen resolution

Display Animated Cursors stored in Resources

14 Dec 1999 by Bernd Wißler

Demonstrates how to use an animated gif stored in your resource file as an animated cursor

Saving objects drawn on UserControl

9 Nov 2010 by Bezawit

Hi guys. I am trying to save 2D graphics shapes that were drawn on a UserControl. I mean, it is like Microsoft's paint application where the user can create different shapes like rectangles, lines and then save it to a file in their PC. They can later come to that file and open it. I am...

GDI

Simulating a moving rectangle using GDI+

3 Jan 2011 by Bezawit

Hi guys, I'm trying to simulate a rectangle that moves with a velocity of V from point A to point B. The two points are connected through a line that I draw by overriding the OnPaint method of a Form. The thing that looks like a challenge to me is how to set when the location of the...

GDI

Zom Out malfunctions when Screen resolution changes

27 Jan 2011 by Bezawit

Hi. I am using a UserControl to display a picture. My application has a Zoom In/Zoom Out feature. I can press the Zoom Out button any number of times and the background code I write will make sure that the left side of the picture would not leave the left side of the UserControl it is drawn...

GDI

Solving Starvation in Dining Philosopher Problem: Using Inverse Semaphore

2 Jun 2008 by Bharath NS

Multithreaded GUI solution for starvation in Dining Philosopher problem

How to draw in child canvas?

2 Aug 2010 by Bhavin Jagad

Create an SDI application that incorporates the following objecthierarchy.CVeiw

C++/CLI

GDI

MFC

Creating Grid like MS Excel

6 Aug 2010 by Bhavin Jagad

Hello Every one,i Want to create Grid smiler to the MS Excel.My required feature are:1)resizing cell(S)/Colum(s)/Row(s)2)selecting row(s),Colum(s),single cell and cell matrix.I need Help for the,1. Which data Structure is correct for the cell??2. How to change appearance of...

C++/CLI

GDI

MFC

Custom Gradient rect, Specifying which corner is round?

4 Oct 2010 by Bhavin Jagad

i want to create rectangle in which user can specify round/rect and for rounded corner radius can be specifiede.gi want Gradient rectangle of size 200 X 200 with Top-Left corner rounded with 10 unit round ellipse,same way top-right corner with 15 unit round ellipse,Bottom-Left...

GDI

MFC

C# Correctly Get String Width in Pixel

29 Nov 2014 by BillWoodruff

Using the default 'MeasureString and 'DrawString: leading-space and trailing-space may be automatically added when the string is rendered:"The MeasureString method is designed for use with individual strings and includes a small amount of extra space before and after the string to allow for...

Does somebody have a C# code snippet for a lightning bolt symbol ?

8 May 2018 by BillWoodruff

Like this one 🗲 or this one 🗱 or 🌩 ... these are characters in the Windows Webdings font: [^]. You can easily scale these up, and take a screen shot, and then create ... whatever. Or, you can take a Label Control whose text is the symbol, set its 'BackColor to 'Transparent, and then set its...

GDI

Transparent Button with Region and Anti-Aliased Edges

16 Aug 2004 by Bob Carboni

Code for creating transparent, blended bitmapped buttons.

Audio Book Player

11 Jun 2009 by brochpirate

Audio player designed specifically for listening to audio books

Drawing multiple bitmaps on a form?

17 May 2010 by BryanWilkins

You could always put a flow control panel on your form with top down style set and add picture controls to it one at a time. You could even set auto scroll to true and that way if your picture controls are larger than the form(ie. longer from top to bottom). The scroll bar will appear...

.NET

GDI

Quadrilateral Distortion

30 Aug 2011 by CaldasGSM

Non-affine transformations, four-point distortions, or whatever you want to call it.

GDI+

GDI

Dev

Flickering while painting on the client area

18 May 2013 by Captain Price

I have created a simple Win32 program which paints rectangles stored in a linked list. In the WM_PAINT message the program paints all the nodes (rectangles) in the linked list in a loop. The problem is that the program flickers a bit. I found the program is annoying to use. I am using double...

C++

GDI

Win32

E-Mail Notifier - notifies users when new mail is received on multiple GMail (and other) accounts

11 Jul 2004 by Catalin Stavaru

This light, yet very usable, application notifies users when new mail is received on multiple GMail (and other) accounts. Written in C++/MFC. No .NET framework, no browser instances launched, low system resource requirements!

Drawing an Animated Image

17 Sep 2010 by CDP1802

A quick search on Google(!) led me to this article here:Adding GIF-animation using GDI+[^]

.NET

GDI+

GDI

what to use for simple game in VB.NET

24 Nov 2010 by CDP1802

Nothing against XNA, but WPF would be better for this. A card game may need not much of a GUI, but some may be needed and that would be a pain, especially for somebody who just got started.With WPF you get the user interface and also the cards (including transformations) with far less overhead.

GDI Leak Detector - A special debugger to detect and locate GDI leaks

5 May 2014 by cdp_anhui_china

A special debugger to detect and locate GDI leaks, with source code.

Read values from USB and use them to draw a curve

18 Apr 2010 by Cedric Moonen

Well, nobody's going to make the work for you. So, if you have no knowledge in C++, I suggest that you either hire someone or start learning it yourself (buy a book for instance).Now, to give some pointers for your question, you have to separate the two tasks: reading the data from USB and...

C++

GDI

what to use for simple game in VB.NET

27 Nov 2010 by Cedrickdeorange

Have a look at the cardgame starter kit on Microsoft. It might help, but at least you have the playing card pics.Hope it helpsRegards Zelacat

How to use a TrueType structure to render user-defined geometric shapes

3 Jan 2009 by ChaoJui

To learn the usages of TrueType structures, TTPOLYGONHEADER and TTPOLYCURVE.

String Truncation Function for C#

17 Dec 2009 by Charles Boyung

This post discusses the string truncation function for C#

Windows

GDI

Detecting the Display Font Size

25 Oct 2002 by Chen Su

Simple function to enable you to programmatically detect the user-selected font at runtime

How can I Draw Puzzle Piece with GDI+?

11 Dec 2015 by CHill60

Have a look at this CP article Professional C# - Graphics with GDI+[^]There is also a reference zone[^] here on CPOr there always the M$ documentation[^]

Capturing the Mouse

3 Mar 2000 by Chris Becke

Notes on TrackMouseEvent, and SetCapture on Win32