Graphic Design - Page 3

Flickering in animation is caused due to the default behavior ...

draw a system icon on the specified device context

Returns info on a bitmap loaded into a picture Pass the Picture property in the first argument Find the results in the remaining arguments

Capture the contents of a window or the entire screen

returns a Windows standard icon (e.g. the icons used in the Message Boxes) Requires the IconToPicture function

Convert an icon handle to a Picture object

A previous tip explained how to change the appearance of the 'list selection' cells of a JComboBox by setting the attributes of the JComboBox object's ListCellRenderer.

Fill a region using the current color or brush OBJ can be a form or a control that exposes a device context (eg a picture box) X,Y are given in the current system coordinates If BORDERCOLOR is specified, fills the area enclosed by a border of that color If BORDERCOLOR is omitted, the area ...

convert a VB color constant to a COLORREF accepts both RGB() values and system color constants

change the screen resolution mode returns True if the requested resolution mode is among those supported by the display adapter (otherwise it doesn't even try to change the screen resolution)

Fill two arrays with information about all available display modes displayInfo() is a bi-dimentional matrix where each row is a display mode displayInfo(n, 0) is the horizontal resolution displayInfo(n, 1) is the vertical resolution displayInfo(n, 2) is the number of colors displayInfo(n, ...

Display a text with 3D effect OBJ can be a form or a PictureBox TEXT is the text to be displayed X, Y are the coordinate (in twips or in current coordinate system) SHADOWCOLOR is the color of the shadow (default is black) SHADOWOFFSET is the distance of shadow in pixels (default is 1 ...

Tile a bitmap to a form or a Bitmap box Target can be a Form or a BitmapBox control Bitmap can be the Bitmap property of a PictureBox or an Image control, or the return value of a LoadPicture function Example: TileBitmap Form1, LoadPicture("C:\myimage.bmp")

In qbasic there is a command called LOCATE. What it does is locate where you want your output on the screen, eg: locate 1,1: meaning one down and one acorss. Is there a command like that in C++, and what is it?

Everybody knows the meaning of public, private, and protected blocks in a class interface. While browsing through a KDE program I found two other block types: signals and public slots. What do they mean? Is this a special thing of Qt? If so, how do they make it possible?

The standard PictureBox control doesn't support the Animated GIF graphic format. However, you can display these images by using a WebBrowser control: WebBrowser1.Navigate "c:\Images\Animated.Gif" The only problem of this technique is that the WebBrowser control also ...

Banner ads are common on any commercial site these days. But most of them use mechanisms like Server Push, Serve-side objects, or even services of third parties to rotate the banner. Here is a ...

Can you point me at or come up with a generic class that allows date manipulation and storage without running into OS-specific or February 29 or Y2K issues?

Pop-up menus in normal HTML pages are usually implemented using Layers (DIV tag). However, the leading browser applications in the market have this known problem with layers: if a pop-up menu is ...

The standard way to copy the contents of the screen or a window to a picture box requires you to use a lot of API functions, such as BitBlt. A simpler approach is possible, though: you just have to simulate the typing of the Print Screen key (or Alt+Print Screen if you want to copy the contents ...