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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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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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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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