I really hate writing Paint Events ! (it showed ?)
One strategy I explored to avoid writing a Paint Event in the case of a
control with a partially transparent background placed over a second control
(where, as we all know too well, only the Form background, not the second

Curious if  you save a PhotoShop document ... using the Save for Web option
... as a 24 bit png file with transparency enabled, and then assign the png
file as the Image of a PictureBox control if the underlying bitmap is in 32
bit per pixel ARGB as Bob Powell emphasizes is the ...

.Net Matrix class use float to store data, and Graphics use it to map
points from logical to device.
My Geometry data is double , and when I use Graphics to draw them, I
have to translate. The effect is not good as well when the data is too

Hi There, I need a little help.
I have a class uses the PictureBox as a base.
In this I want to store the current image twice. So I can restore the image
when needed.

I'm having problems getting the page count of a tiff image from a multi page
tiff that was saved to a byte array and then loaded into a bitmap object
using image.FromStream. When the following code is ran against a tiff file
containing 2 pages the first line written to the ...

Any suggestions on how to draw a family tree in ASP .NET?
I have a table called Users in my DB that stores all the relationships.  
Here are relevant fields:
UserName

I have designed a set of classes which all accept a graphics object
and then render lines, rectanges, text, etc to that object.  There is
a "parent" class which controls the instantiation of each class and
also calls the render method for each class, passing the form's

I just posted this in VB group and then thought this NG might be more
appropriate.
I have an image and a graphics object created (FromImage) from that image.
I need to create a new image and create a new graphics object from the new

I would like to measure the height of wrapped text (of specified font type
and size etc).
I know of the GetHeight method but how can I use it for a number of lines
even if the number of lines is known, I suspect that multiplying the number

I have an image that is basically the canvas that the user draws on.
He may also be making changes to the Graphics object that is used to draw on
the canvas.
Then he wants to make the canvas bigger and continue drawing.

I've got a winForm that has a good number of custom controls with custom graphics that are stored as resources in the project.
Recently, I updated all of the graphics with a new look.  Added all the new images into the resource file and deleted all the old images.
But whenever the ...

I have an image representing a clock's minute hand and which I need to draw
in the 12 positions.
After fiddling a bit, i noticed that there's a strange offset from the hand
in one position (i.e. 3 PM) and the opposite (9 PM).

I can't seem to elimate flicker.  I'm drawing to a panel via its OnPaint.
I've tried setting the form's doublebuffer to true, to no avail, so I tried
using ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer, still no good.  Then I tried
using good old BufferedGraphicsContext in the panel ...

Hy,
I have a form with transparent BackColor
(MyForm.TransparencyKey=MyForm.BackColor) and the OnPaint method draws
a rectangle with a GradientBrush the gradient is from Color.Black to

Ive got an Image object that im using as a canvas.
Im using Graphics.Draw() and Graphics.DrawString() to place images and
text onto the canvas.
I've got everything working apart from rotation.