I already posted it to
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.managed, but there was no
response, maybe here any one will know, thanks in advence.
I'm trying to make a simple animation - white lanes on black screen are

I am trying to start with FreeImage project, which has a C# library. When I
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error saying that FreeImage.dll is not accessible, please make sure that it
is valid COM or assembly.

Hi there, im trying to read an image pixel by pixel and save the information
to a file for later use in another image...
the images i want to read are quite big so i need it as fast as possible,
ive read at

I am following  Charles Pretzold's book, " Programming Microsoft Windows
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Hi, I'm building a custom progress bar which uses graphic object with bitmap
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Everything seems to work fine, except that when the progress bar control is
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I have an application that adds pictureboxes at runtime. When I set the
Image property I get a OutOfMemoryException. The images are only about 40kb
each and it craps out on about the 4th one.
Code Example:

I'm going on vacation 'till August 6th. I might drop in here if I find a
cybercafe anywhere but I'm hopefully going to be too busy having fun to
worry too much about programming ;-)
TTFN...

Hi Iam using ownerdraw in a Panel.
Iam scaling an image so that it should fill the whole width of the control
but the funny thing is, it doens't. Instead it blends from left to the right
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I develop a little control that daraws a string, using System.Graphics
methods. Here is a simple image that will be usefull for my question.
<img src="http://faze.altervista.org/temp/texts.png">
Using GraphicsPath and a little blur (with drawing a resized image), I

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I am trying to create an image with a transparent colour. I have created a
function (please see below) which creates a white image with some green text.
I would like to make white the transparent colour.
If I comment out the MakeTransparent line, the function works in the sense

im trying to figure out how to make a progressbar when loading images....
im using the following code to open the file:
Dim bmpInputStream As IO.Stream
Dim bmpSourceBitmap As Bitmap

I am trying to implement Lasso selection, similar to one available in
the Windows Explorer.
I have a extended a Panel and set the style and back color :
public class TransparentPanel : System.Windows.Forms.Panel

If I were to do this on a VB.NET form
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the '-' is a solid line and > is the linecap.
If I wanted to draw this line in incremental small steps (in slow

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getting drawn
using CDC::TextOut and I can see text on the screen. But, when I try to
print it