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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:59 AM

Math Installment #4: Bounding Regions

There may already be a few entries on bounding regions that I posted many months ago. At one point I think I described some different types of bounding region scenarios including strict and relaxed fit scenarios. To add some math to this a strict region...
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Saturday, August 21, 2004 3:29 AM

Math Installment #3: A quick look at wavy text

[ Sample Download on Project Distributor ] I previously covered laying out text along a linear path and a circular path. You can view that code here Math Installment #2: I needed some circular oriented text . I'll be referencing the code so you really...
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Friday, August 20, 2004 8:04 AM

Math Installment #2: I needed some circular oriented text

[ Sample Download on Project Distributor ] Okay, back with math installment #2... This time I needed some circular oriented text, or rather I needed some path oriented text, but that code is much harder so I'm starting with something a bit easier. There...
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Sunday, August 15, 2004 4:45 AM

Math Installment #1: Image layout logic

Turns out most of the code I write that does deal with math is layout code in order to manage how a number of assets, whether it be controls or graphics, is rendered to the screen. Over the past couple of days the kind of code I have been writing is in...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:45 AM

Watch out for "Power Toys", sometimes you get more than you bargained for.

Okay, so I was checking out the VB PowerToys, and I have to say they are kind of nice. I can always appreciate a free download especially if it saves me some time. However, you don't reinvent the wheel when creating a new component and then append the...
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Monday, April 05, 2004 11:58 PM

Processing extended meta-data properties on images can be a pain, especially with no enumerations.

Last week I mentioned that XSLT generally comes to my rescue and makes my life easy when I least expect it. This happens to be the case yet again as I turn an MSDN html page into an actual enumeration. I did do a copy and paste of just the table out of...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:02 PM

Fast Image Loading without asking for the hot-fix or waiting for the service pack...

Omar Shahine is doing some great work on his JPEG Hammer application. He talks about finding some hot-fixes for the System.Drawing.Image class that provide overloads for disabling image verification. While this is inherently unsafe, and you now have to...
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Sunday, February 01, 2004 3:06 AM

What does it take to make an Asynchronously drawn ListBox in Windows Forms?

Yeah, yeah, it's been done I'm sure, but I still ran into the problem when making my own picture viewer. The basic issues were thumbnailing images to be displayed in the owner-drawn ListBox while still allowing the UI to respond to the user. Then making...
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:09 AM

Putting your WinForms graphics into a sleep state...

While helping someone with a DirectX problem I came across what I think might be a neat feature for Windows Forms. You can always gamma correct your UI to a lower brightness value by layering a transparent black from over the top. This as mentioned in...
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