Monthly Archives: January 2020

Use big toolstrip buttons in C#

Posted on January 30, 2020 by RodStephens

This example shows how you can make big toolstrip buttons. It also shows how to make buttons act as comboboxes that let you select images. At design time, I created the toolstrip and added the button with the flower on … Continue reading →

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Rotate images to straighten them in C#

Posted on January 27, 2020 by RodStephens

I’ve written a couple of examples that show how to rotate images. I made many of them because I wanted to adjust a picture I had taken that was slightly crooked. Those examples work well, but they can be fairly … Continue reading →

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Make a hexagonal montage of pictures in C#

Posted on January 23, 2020 by RodStephens

This example combines techniques from several earlier posts to make a hexagonal montage. It uses the techniques demonstrated in the post Draw a hexagonal grid in C# to define the grid and to make positions on the form two and … Continue reading →

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Find drawn characters under the mouse in C#

Posted on January 20, 2020 by RodStephens

The following examples find the positions of drawn characters in a string that is drawn by using the Graphics object’s DrawString method. Measure character positions in a drawn string in C# Measure character positions when drawing long strings in C# … Continue reading →

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Clip an image to a polygon in C#

Posted on January 16, 2020 by RodStephens

This example lets you select a polygon and then uses it to clip an image to it. It uses the technique described in my previous post Build a polygon selector class in C# to let you select the polygon. The … Continue reading →

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Build a polygon selector class in C#

Posted on January 9, 2020 by RodStephens

This example shows how to make a polygon selector class that makes it easy to let the user select a polygon. I call this kind of class that provides a service for another class a symbiont. In a symbiotic relationship, … Continue reading →

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Arrange images on the corners of a polygon in C#

Posted on January 5, 2020 by RodStephens

This post shows a way to arrange images on top of a background image as shown in the image above. How to Use the Program Enter the names of the background and foreground image files, or use the File menu’s … Continue reading →

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