Does anyone have any idea why I can't get a pixel-value of 255 returned in
the code below?
Any color-value from 0 up to 254 is returned correctly, but any
color-component of 255 returns zero. ie. bright white pixel would return

Hi,My friends,
  i am a boy from china, i meet a problom in my program.i use this code to
write a word on form. how can i get the word's size? i know the API
function named DrawTextEx can get it because the Rectangle parameter is [in]

Drawing Gurus..
Ok, I am really new to System.Drawing and I have a web app that lets
users upload images (gif, bmp, jpg). If the image is greater than say
75px by 75px, I want to resize it down to that size BEFORE I save it to

I'm running into a problem when I place a transparent control onto a
form with a background image.  The control is a marquee, so the client
rectangle gets updated 50-100 times per second.  The problem I'm
running into is that when the background image is large, the CPU is

I'm writing an owner-draw listbox and want to have some images in it.
So, I load png files into image list and now:
  when I try to draw them 'normaly' (without double-buffering) everything
is ok,

I have developed a very small Windows application which creates a new Icon
using .NET GDI+ every second (or every minute, that's user-definable). I
need to do this because my "drawing surface" is a system tray icon so I
can't just paint to a control or something. However, ...

I need to rotate text that may have multiple lines and contain multiple fonts.  The best thing I could think of was to rotate a RichTextBox but I can't seem to do that. I could draw the text using GDI+ but all the examples I have seen only use one font.  Seems that it may be ...

OK, my previous message news:uIukmiPGFHA.1932@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl was
probably a bit too long... (subject: "[Bug Suspicion] So,
<any_gdi_object>.Dispose() does ... what exactly?", sent a few hours ago)
So here is, in a more compact form, my problem:

I have an 8bpp greyscale tiff file (created using a C++ library call tiflib)
that causes out of memory exceptions when opened using Image.FromFile in
GDI+.
I can open it with other programs like Irfanview and Imaging. If I save it

I've got a WIndows Forms usercontrol that I'm drawing myself.  I needed
scroll bars so I've put them on the control at design time and am showing and
hiding them when needed.  My problem is that when I mouse over one part of
the control I change the cursor to an IBeam and when I ...

- Is there a way to have a greyscale view of a Bitmap alpha channel, just
like the alpha channel palette in Photoshop.
- Like in Photoshop, is it possible to draw in an alpha channel using
greyscale values of the Brush, leaving the alpha values of the Brush for

Hi newsgroup,
I am developing an application which has to save an tiff-image, which in
turn can have multiple pages.
When using the following code, however, only the first page of the tiff-file

I am trying to drag a rectangle throughout a form for a graphical
design application.  The problem is that when I implement DrawRectangle
or ControlPaint.DrawBorder, the rectangle is obscured by other controls
as it passes over them.   The only solution I can think of is to

G'Day all,
Ok so I can draw a rectange (with borders and fill whatever) to the
upper left of an image easily, but I cant work out how to draw the
rectange to the upper right of an image? Keeping in mind that the

hiii
i have made a class MyObject. It has a draw function. I am able to draw all
the objects on the form. I am able to save them to a file and read them also.
Now the problem is that i want that if a user clicks on any of the  object