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My requirement is something like attached image.
I am designing an File editor with more options like language , copy ,paste and save. For that i tried adding icon image to menu strip. It worked but i have limitations on size adjustment , clarity all those things.
Could anyone suggest me any option/control to achieve similar to attached image.
Thanks
You can look at 2 approaches:
Use Gallery in Ribbon Control;
Shrink an image to 32 X 32 or 16 X 16 and you will get a reasonable looking icon. You can try this site to shrink you image resources.
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My WPF icons are displayed very small, as you can see in this image, can you please
suggest what could be the problem? I tried to find some properties related to size but
no success.
One problem could be the bitmap's resolution. Open the bitmap for example in Paint.NET and in the Resize Bitmap dialog check whether it is 72DPI or 96DPI. A large ribbon bitmap should be 32x32 Pixels at 96 DPI.
By the way, in your screenshot the bitmaps actually look ok. What makes you think they are too small?
WPF uses an unusual resolution of 96 dpi... I'm guessing that your images have not been saved at this resolution.
I've created a little gallery in drupal 7 using views module and colorbox formatter for image field. The thing is, I'd like to provide url for full size image download. Mind You - "full size image" is not the same image that appears in colorbox overlay. In fact I don't have full size image at all, since I've limited max image dimension on upload (1000 x 1000px). And I'm not sure how to overcome this restriction.
So, user should be able to click on a thumbnail (100 x 100px) and view 1000px wide version of an image in colorbox overlay. And apart from that there should be download link to full size photo (4000px wide, for example) - preferably in an overlay, but may be on the gallery page as well.
I could just skip size limits on upload and pull the link from image src, but I wanted to save bandwith and speed up display. Well, creating a gallery full of 16 Mpx photos isn't the way to go, anyway.
Is there any clever way to achieve what I want, or do I just need to hack file upload module a bit?
Ok, I've found an answer. And it's pretty simple, now that I think of it.
Since image derivatives are created on the fly, I just needed to create another image style in admin/config/media/image-styles, 1000px wide and high, and remove upload limit in image field.
"Full size download link" may be then created by a regex in JS, just replace one path to image with another.
Alright, try as I might, I cannot for the life of me get rid of this tiny little border around my buttons.
Edit: I should mention, in case I didn't make it clear, these are buttons with an image on them, set to flat with the button sized to the image.
Images below:
Number one, I can't for the life of me get these borders to GO AWAY. I've checked everything I can think of. They're:
flat
border 0
no margins
no padding
manually sized to the size of the image (75px)
in a table layout where the columns are all:
manually sized to the width of the image (75px)
borderless
Nothing seems to really "work" to get rid of these. If I size the columns down to be 74px instead of 75px, most of them go away, but a few remain. I've triple and quadruple checked the images, and they don't have anything that I can pick up on that should be causing this... no transparency around the borders, definitely no border that looks like that.
Which leads me to the second problem:
Settings button when dialog is small...
Settings button when dialog is stretched out.
Settings button is also in the same table layout panel.
I've checked all the settings on the table layout panel as well.. I can't find any padding or margin or anything settings that suggest this should be happening.
Does anyone have any experience with this? What am I missing..?
Simple solution: using directly a PictureBox as if it was a button. You can change your image on mouse over or mouse click.
Have you tried a Toolbar/strip/whatever it's called these days? Probably not going to help as I believe it pads on your behalf, but worth a shot.
In the end you can toss the buttons in the trash and write your own control. A single control that manages N buttons will work well here.
I don't understand your second problem. What's the problem? It'll be fixed if you roll your own control anyhow.
While not a fix for the spacing issue, as a workaround you can make that gray gradient currently "behind" the "tabs" and control panel image into a BackgroundImage for the TableLayoutPanel using BackgroundImageLayout of Stretch. While not fixing the spacing issue, it would make it unnoticeable.
Writing a winforms control has its challenges (experience speaking here). I would agree that that is whats needed however. Depending on your project you may consider using XAML and WPF. It provides that fine detail you seem to be looking for in you application.
There are ways to host XAML controls in a winform app, but if you went this route it would be best to create a native WPF application. The reverse is also true (winform controls in a WPF app).
Did you check if the image has transparent pixels around the graphic pixels you want?
May be a simple crop solution.
Hi there just a quick question I hope someone can help me with I am loading a logo onto my dialog application into a static picture holder using the .rc file and adding this code.
ICON IDI_MYICON,IDC_STATIC_IMAGE,120,154,21,20
However my problem is this will only display a 64x64 image max and the banner I have loaded is 242x74 in size am I using the wrong method in using ICON? I did try bitmap but didnt work either.
Thanks
The 21,20 in your statement is the width and height of the icon control in dialog units. Dialog units vary depending on things like screen DPI and the font selected. There are typically 2-4 pixels per dialog unit. You've basically given the icon something on the order of 64x64 to display in.
To get the icon control sized pixel-perfectly, you can to resize it dynamically, e.g., during WM_INITDIALOG.
Also, I'm not sure which method the dialog box code uses to load the icon--some (like LoadIcon) restrict the size to a "standard" size which others (like LoadImage) do not.
If i have a logo, let's say done as a jpg or even a png. Any suggestion for how I can use that to define a path geometry? It would be really good if any suggestions could be provided for how i can do it in blend.
Thanks
Yes - I just tackled this problem for an LOB application two days ago.
I can't offer advice for Blend (though I've read that it can be done in Expression Designer). However, the best free tool I've found for this is called InkScape (http://www.inkscape.org).
It's opensource, and while it's intended primarily for editing SVG vector-based images, it has two key features that are useful to us WPFers:
It can vectorize (i.e. "trace") raster images like bitmaps and jpegs, albeit not as well as one would hope, and
It can export the vector image as XAML
You'll invariably find that you get better results from loading vector formats (like SVG, EMF, WMF, etc) and saving to XAML, than if you try to convert a bitmap/jpeg... simply because the process of vectorizing a raster image is error prone at best. So if you want to bring a company logo into XAML, try to get hold of the source files used to create the logo (perhaps done in Illustrator?) and import that into InkScape.
If this post is helpful, please be kind and give it a one-up.
Jasema is a terrific tool right for the job.
Also, don't be shy to use Blend - it is somewhat more difficult to use (drawing shapes using pen) but it gets easier pretty fast. Switch on gridlines and optionally snap to them for good results.
What both Jasema and Blend are lacking, is the ability to easily create shapes with a central symmetry (like stars), so I took parts from Jasema and created my own tool (named Radius) that works a bit like a combination of a ruler and compass.
I have a good idea but you're png, bmp, jpg or other non vector file is must be very simple because we need best scan results and only use inkscape.
Step: Drag and drop your file workspace on Inkscape, download free.
Tip: If your image is color white, Top menu item File->Document Properties-> heck Checkerboard Background and if you want uncheck Page border show.
Step: Top menu item Path-> Trace Bitmap-> Mode check what you want property, i usually use color property and if your file is png check Remove Background then click OK, then wait again Ok button is Enable and close window.
Step: Now you have a two layer, top layer vektor file and bottom layer your file. Select vector file and top menu item Edit-> XML Editor-> select svg path and look side column, d name propery in your data path value.
But this method may not always work or may not give the desired results and draw your own shapes with the scape so you can get the path data from the XML editor.
Example, my first tests this like:
and after working on it some more:
I've solved my problem (export an image as XAML) using Microsoft Expression Design 4 (Free Version). I've downloaded from the link
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36180
As input, I had Adobe Ilustrator files.
Adobe Illustrator / CorelDraw is perhaps the best tool out there for these operations that I have used.
Personally, I prefer illustrator for on-screen media. These tracings can be exported into several formats such as EPS, SVG, AI, or even XAML (with this plugin)
Best of Luck !!!!
I have recently been struggling with this myself. I had a set of icons done in data and needed to update them to look nicer.
I tried everything, manually typing them out. drawing in svg, converting svg to xaml.
in the end i found a list of open source icons from google material icons.
I then used this to convert from the svg files to data
https://github.com/BerndK/SvgToXaml
It works well but not for the icons i drew myself.
I decided to place all the icons data i convert into an app i built myself that will give you the data and a preview of the icon. feel free to use and contribute. I will keep updating as much as i can.
https://github.com/sgreaves1/XamlIcons
Convert your image from png to svg in online converter, then drop file into this site http://inloop.github.io/svg2android/ and you will see pathData of your image like below shown in my image.