GDIPLUS flat API revealed

[Patrice Terrier]

The whole project is located on José's forum here

PICTURE was written for the first WinLIFT version, more than 10 years ago (february 2002).

Its purpose was to show how to use the GDIPLUS flat API at the time of its first release by Microsoft, before the DOT.Net obscurification has occured.

Most of the original GDI+ API are shown in context within the source code, you will have first to select an image that will be used for background.

Note: due to the time this project was written, if you want to recompile the code, better to use an older PB compiler like version 9.05.

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[Michael Mattias]

Revealed?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=VS.85%29.aspx

[Michael Mattias]

And you might find it interesting what Microsoft really thinks of GDI+.....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

[José Roca]

Originally Posted by Michael Mattias

And you might find it interesting what Microsoft really thinks of GDI+.....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

What does Microsoft really thinks of GDI+? Legacy is not the same as deprecated.

[Patrice Terrier]

I think, in 2002, "revealed" was the good word.

The PICTURE project was part of my old GDIPLUS Helper for those who remember it.

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[Michael Mattias]

I'm just very sensitive about the "L" word.

I'm afraid soon someone will use it to describe me.

[José Roca]

Direct2D is the successor of GDI+, but as it requires Vista Sp2 or Windows 7, good knowledge of low-level COM programming and my Widows API Headers, few PBers will use it. Maybe in 2020...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx

[Chris Holbrook]

Originally Posted by Patrice Terrier

I think, in 2002, "revealed" was the good word.

I think that M$ caught up in 2010 or so.

[Stuart McLachlan]

Originally Posted by Michael Mattias

I'm just very sensitive about the "L" word.

I'm afraid soon someone will use it to describe me.

Someone did a few days ago:
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=49943

[Eric Pearson]

Many words spring immedately to mind when I think of you, MCM, but none of them start with L.

[Michael Mattias]

Well.... after further review, maybe it's not so bad to be called 'legacy' ... if the only alternative is 'deprecated.'

[Steve Hutchesson]

MCM,

Its all in how you read the term LEGACY. You simply RE-Translate it to things like,

1. I know how to do things that you don't.
2. I write code, not manipulate code written by others.
3. YES I DO know what an API is.

etc .....

[John Petty]

Originally Posted by Steve Hutchesson

MCM,

Its all in how you read the term LEGACY. You simply RE-Translate it to things like,

1. I know how to do things that you don't.
2. I write code, not manipulate code written by others.
3. YES I DO know what an API is.

etc .....

Slight correction on point 3. Think it should read something like
3. Yes I do know what and how to use an API that doesn't have COM.

[Patrice Terrier]

Amazed to see how this thread, has been biased under the MCM impulsion.

This one of the reason, why now i prefer to post my contributions elsewhere.

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[Steven Pringels 3]

Patrice,

Elsewhere ? As in 'not PowerBasic related' ? Sorry to hear that, really !

To me your contributions were always top notch. I'm not in the graphics business like you are but still it gave me good insight on things I don't know.