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June 2006 - Posts

• Gradient Backgrounds in your forms with GDI+ Part2

  In my previous post with the same title, I showed how to create VERTICAL gradient backgrounds in forms. As commented by Malcolm Greene, that same technique can be used to VFP Containers. According to MSDN, "The LinearGradientBrush class defines Read More posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:49 AM by cesarchalom | 11 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES Attachment(s): GradientNEW.zip

• GDIPLUS FOR ALL VFP VERSIONS

  As we all know, Gdiplus.dll brings many new possibilities to VFP users.Gdiplus.dll is a free and redistributable library provided by Microsoft, that must be used only in Windows(R) systems. Alexander Golovlev may have been the first person to publish Read More posted Friday, June 16, 2006 5:06 PM by cesarchalom | 5 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• Gradient Backgrounds in your forms with GDI+

  This one goes to Bernard Bout. After reading this post check also: Gradient Backgrounds in your forms with GDI+ Part 2 GDI+ allows to create many cool effects such as Gradient Colors. This feature was not included in _gdiplus.vcx, but can also be Read More posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 6:37 AM by cesarchalom | 15 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES Attachment(s): gradient.zip

• Use encoder parameters to save your images with GDI+

  The method SaveToFile from GpImage class in _gdiplus.vcx from VFP9 “Saves the image object to a disk file, using specified encoder or image format and optional parameters.” Here are the most important: QUALITY (Supported by JPEG) Specifies the compression Read More posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 11:23 PM by cesarchalom | 3 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• DRAWING WITH GDI+

  Craig Boyd gifted us with another brilliant and FREE article, published in January 2006 at FoxTalk 2.0, from PinPub. There he explains many cool features, such as Pens and Brushes, used for drawing all kinds of shapes. Many kinds of Gradients, introducing Read More posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:07 PM by cesarchalom | 1 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES