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MFC Support for Direct2D – Transforms (1)
Direct2D supports linear transforms like translation, scale, rotation and skew. If using MFC, we can apply transforms to render targets by calling CRenderTarget::SetTransform. Here is an example that...
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MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 8: Lost Render Target
As stated in the Direct2D documentation, the graphics device might become unavailable. If the device is lost, the render target also becomes invalid, along with any device-dependent resources that were...
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Codexpert – 2017 Articles Summary
MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 3: Multithreading MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 8: Trimming MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 9: Hit-Test MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 10: Outlined Text MFC...
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MFC Support for Windows Animation
Let’s say we have to make a slide show presentation using Cross Fade effect. If the target system is Windows 10, that’s quite easy because Direct2D offers built-in Cross Fade effect. Cross Fade effect...
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MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 7: Saving to files
Once have enabled Direct2D support in an MFC application, there is no sweat to load an image from a file, by using one of CD2DBitmap constructors. Unfortunately, we cannot find a CD2DBitmap method to...
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MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 6: Composite Effects
We can combine two or more images and/or effects by using the composite effect. Here is an example. Drawing shadows using Direct2D composite effects void...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 11: About Trimming Again
In a previous article, I showed how to trim a text which overflows the layout box. In the example presented there, the ellipsis is added at the end of truncated text. But if, let’s say, we have to show...
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MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 5: Interoperability with GDI
There are two ways to combine Direct2D with Windows GDI API in the same application: Drawing Direct2D content to a GDI device context Drawing GDI content to a Direct2D GDI-compatible render target...
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MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 4: Built-in Effects
Direct2D has built-in support for image processing like changing brightness or contrast, blurring, creating drop shadows, and so on. Basically, we can use for this purpose the CreateEffect and...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 9: Hit-Test
DirectWrite has hit-testing support that can be useful for showing a caret, making a selection, doing some action if the user chicks in a given text range, and so on. The hit-test methods of...
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MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 3: Multithreading
As shown in previous articles, we can enable MFC Direct2D support for a window by a call of CWnd::EnableD2DSupport. Example:int CSlideShowWnd::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) { if...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 8: Trimming
When using “classic” GDI functions i.e. CDC::DrawText, it’s no sweat to trim with ellipsis a single-line text when that text does not fit in the drawing rectangle width, by specifying DT_WORDBREAK...
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C++ Programming Language Guidelines Support Library Review: span<T> Guidelines Support Library Review: string_span<T> Microsoft Libraries Easy PNG Resource Loading with MFC – Part 1 MFC...
View ArticleGetting Direct2D, DirectWrite and WIC Factories in MFC
MFC library offers a series of wrapper classes over Direct2D and DirectWrite interfaces (see CRenderTarget and CD2D classes). That’s pretty cool because allows to easily load and render images and draw...
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The previous articles from this series show how to format the text layout using built-in DirectWrite methods. However, as said earlier, we can do more custom formatting (e.g. draw double/triple...
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MFC Static Control Using Direct2D and DirectWrite (updated)
I have update the MFC static control presented in the previous articles by adding methods for setting text range color, typography and inline images. Code samples Setting text range color void...
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MFC Static Control Using Direct2D and DirectWrite – version 1.0
While doing some refactoring on sample source code presented in MFC Support for DirectWrite series, I had the idea to make a control easy to be used for rendering text. It could be a custom MFC control...
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Easy PNG Resource Loading with MFC
If ask Internet about how to “load PNG from resource” it gives in return a lot of examples using a bunch of code. We can use some stuff found there, but once using MFC and enabling Direct2D support,...
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Microsoft Libraries and C++ Programming Language Using Lambdas in MFC Applications – Part 1: Sorting Arrays Presents how to sort MFC arrays using lambda expressions (C++11 and next). Using Lambdas in...
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