Tag Archives: PictureBox

Make a PictureBox act like a button in C#

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Rod Stephens

This program uses several images to make a PictureBox behave like a button. These images give you complete control over how the “button” looks as it is pressed and released. A button should have these behaviors: When the mouse is … Continue reading →

Posted in controls, user interface | Tagged button, C#, C# programming, controls, example, example program, PictureBox, PictureBox button, user interface, Windows Forms programming | Leave a comment

Tile a PictureBox in C#

Posted on September 20, 2017 by RodStephens

If you set a form’s BackgroundImageLayout property Tile, then the control fills itself with copies of its background image. Strangely the PictureBox control does not have a corresponding Tile property. This example shows one way you can tile images on … Continue reading →

Posted in drawing, graphics, image processing | Tagged C#, C# programming, drawing, example, example program, graphics, image processing, picture box, PictureBox, TextureBrush, tile, tile image, Windows Forms programming | Leave a comment

Display thumbnails for image files in a directory in C#

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how to display thumbnails for the images in a directory. It displays a tooltip when the mouse hovers over a picture and it opens the image file in the default application if you double-click on an image. … Continue reading →

Posted in controls, graphics, image processing | Tagged C#, C# programming, controls, display thumbnails, example, example program, FlowLayoutPanel, generate thumbnails, graphics, image processing, PictureBox, thumbnails, Windows Forms programming | 1 Comment

Make shaped PictureBoxes in C#

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how to use regions to make shaped PictureBoxes. The PNG image format allows you to define transparent pixels. As you might guess, if you draw an image with transparent pixels, those pixels are not drawn and whatever … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, geometry, graphics, image processing | Tagged AddEllipse, algorithms, C#, C# programming, example, example program, geometry, graphics, GraphicsPath, image processing, images, PictureBox, Region, shaped control, shaped PictureBox, shaped PictureBoxes, transparent images, Windows Forms programming | 1 Comment

Use a loop to load pictures in C#

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Rod Stephens

When the form loads, the following code loads pictures into the form’s PictureBoxes. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string dirname = Path.GetFullPath( Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, @”..\..\”)); // Make an array holding the PictureBoxes. PictureBox[] pics = { PictureBox1, PictureBox2, PictureBox3, … Continue reading →

Posted in graphics, image processing | Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, graphics, image processing, load pictures, PictureBox, PictureBoxes, Windows Forms programming | Leave a comment

Zoom and scroll a picture drawn in C#

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Rod Stephens

This program lets you zoom and scroll a picture drawn by the program. The program contains a Panel with AutoScale set to true. Inside the Panel is a PictureBox with SizeMode set to AutoSize. The PictureBox contains a Bitmap that … Continue reading →

Posted in drawing, graphics | Tagged AutoScroll, C#, C# programming, draw image, drawing, example, example program, graphics, pan, Panel, PictureBox, scroll, smiley, smiley face, Windows Forms programming, zoom | 2 Comments

Drag and drop images in C#

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how to drag and drop images in C#. The example Drag and drop text in C# explains basic drag and drop operations. See that example for the fundamentals. One of the first things you must do before … Continue reading →

Posted in Drag and Drop, graphics, image processing, interoperability | Tagged AllowDrop, C#, drag, drag and drop, drag source, drop, drop target, example, example program, graphics, image processing, interoperability, PictureBox, programming, Windows Forms programming | 6 Comments

Use double buffering to prevent flicker in a PictureBox in C#

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Rod Stephens

The example Use double buffering to prevent flicker when drawing in C# shows how to make a form use double-buffering to reduce flicker. Rather than drawing everything on the screen as it is generated, the form draws onto an image … Continue reading →