Comments by Fox536 (Top 18 by date)

I tried to use, all the png types .Paint allows, jpeg, jpg(I know these 2 should be the same), bitmap, but they all had the same result.

It's a jerry-rig solution to the built-in gaping hole in the way Windows forces forms to work, but basically you have to loop through in whatever direction your going and paint the image to each pixel to keep from fading.

Here is the Jerry-rig Fix
http://pastebin.com/cVaFf6Xq

Ya i was just trying to avoid having to rewrite the code in another language, but if I've got to rewrite it I might as well, just break down and use html/java to do it :( but thanks for the input it was very interesting.

1. it's directionality dependent because you are only stretching in one direction.

a. it is a png but doesn't include any transparency, I tried changing it to bitmap which didn't help either.

b. the example was 4 different calls, as for whether that one was a control or just painted directly onto the form I do not know. I tried painting on the form, using a picture box, using a empty panel's paint method, ect. pretty much anything anyone said to try, I tried nothing seemed to work.

The only way I can fix the issue, is to loop through every pixel in whatever direction I'm going and paint the image. But doing this makes the startup slow and if you have to resize it later it's slow then as well.

The only work around I could find to that was to paint it to a very large size at startup, and save the output to an Image variable, then only add to it if I need to.

The only thing I can think of is the built-in method is flawed/"supposed to do that" either way it's very unhelpful.

I will make a simple code for you to look at but it's a very common problem, apparently, I pulled this off a search I did earlier with the same problem just to show what I mean until I can make a sample for you http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx291/JonCage1/StretchNotWorking.png

oh and ps the longer your form is the more it fades until it isn't even visible. And yes I know your thinking from the picture, that it's not truly 0 opacity, but let's not get into a battle of simatics over that fact that all default controls are not really transparent.

I'll post a sample tomorrow after work.

I'm sorry but that doesn't help for what I need but thanks for trying, I found a solution for the problem.

I mean fading... as in going from an Opaque color (Opacity 255) to a transparent color (Opacity 0). But I've found a cruddy solution, which is to add a paint method then loop through and just repeatedly draw the image. It's not a simple task but it's the only thing that seems to work, as long as you don't need it to redraw or else it takes forever. I need a way to draw to an image thats in memory then if I need to I can stretch it further later, any ideas how?

I've tried drawing the image after setting the interpolation to nearest, I've tried just drawing the image in a picturebox with stretch turned on I've tried the CompositingMode settings and the pixelOffset as well. I've search for over an hour now trying different things but nothing seems to make the image stretch without fade. Any Ideas?

well this isn't what I needed but thanks for trying. I'm betting it's not possible to do what I need but again thanks for trying to point me in the right direction.

Well I need a game server base,

- that will use sockets to transmit binary data to any connected client, so I know it needs to be TCP/IP.

- that will be able to handle 200+ connected users without any speed problems.

- I need it to be highly configurable, and as easy to understand as possible.

I'm not necessarily going to use a third party server base (in fact I can almost guarantee it, I just need a solid base that I can learn from, because all the code I've seen either is horribly documented, or missing huge gaps of info, or is poorly coded.) I really just need a base that has all those features working so that I can see how it works and be able to toy with it so that I can figure it out better. I've googled, I've searched and read many articles here but can't seem to find what I need. Also I heard that using a new thread for each connected client causes the application to eventually hit the windows thread cap, so I'm trying to find a solution that avoids this.

Ok I will look into the tutorials you posted, communicating through binary serialization is how I was going to send the update command for the C# clients as well lol. And yes the clients will be able to use the Sql Queries by themselves so that should be easy, unless you know a better way.

Ya I suppose, it does thanks