// Create the extruded text effect
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
e.Graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
// Create the outline strategy which is going to shift blit diagonally
var strategyOutline = CanvasHelper.TextOutline(MaskColor.Blue, MaskColor.Blue, 4);
Bitmap canvas = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, Color.White, 0);
// Text context to store string and font info to be sent as parameter to Canvas methods
TextContext context = new TextContext();
FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial Black");
context.fontFamily = fontFamily;
context.fontStyle = FontStyle.Regular;
context.nfontSize = 40;
context.pszText = "CODING MONKEY";
context.ptDraw = new Point(0, 0);
// the single mask outline
Bitmap maskOutline = CanvasHelper.GenMask(strategyOutline, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, new Point(0, 0), context);
// the mask to store all the single mask blitted diagonally
Bitmap maskOutlineAll = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width + 10, ClientSize.Height + 10);
Graphics graphMaskAll = Graphics.FromImage(maskOutlineAll);
// blit diagonally
for (int i = 0; i < 7; ++i)
{
graphMaskAll.DrawImage(maskOutline, i, i, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
}
// Measure the dimension of the big mask in order to generate the correct sized gradient image
//=============================================================================================
uint top = 0;
uint bottom = 0;
uint left = 0;
uint right = 0;
CanvasHelper.MeasureMaskLength(maskOutlineAll, MaskColor.Blue, ref top, ref left, ref bottom, ref right);
right += 2;
bottom += 2;
// Generate the gradient image for the diagonal outline
//=======================================================
Bitmap gradImage = CanvasHelper.GenImage((int)(right - left), (int)(bottom - top));
List <Color> listColors = new List <Color>();
listColors.Add(Color.DarkGreen);
listColors.Add(Color.YellowGreen);
DrawGradient.Draw(gradImage, listColors, false);
// Because Canvas::ApplyImageToMask requires all image to have same dimensions,
// we have to blit our small gradient image onto a temp image as big as the canvas
//===================================================================================
Bitmap gradBlitted = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
Graphics graphgradBlitted = Graphics.FromImage(gradBlitted);
graphgradBlitted.DrawImage(gradImage, (int)left, (int)top, (int)(gradImage.Width), (int)(gradImage.Height));
CanvasHelper.ApplyImageToMask(gradBlitted, maskOutlineAll, canvas, MaskColor.Blue, false);
// Create strategy and mask image for the text body
//===================================================
var strategyText = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(MaskColor.Blue);
Bitmap maskText = CanvasHelper.GenMask(strategyText, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, new Point(0, 0), context);
// Measure the dimension required for text body using the mask
//=============================================================
top = 0;
bottom = 0;
left = 0;
right = 0;
CanvasHelper.MeasureMaskLength(maskText, MaskColor.Blue, ref top, ref left, ref bottom, ref right);
top -= 2;
left -= 2;
right += 2;
bottom += 2;
// Create the gradient brush for the text body
LinearGradientBrush gradTextbrush = new LinearGradientBrush(new Rectangle((int)left, (int)top, (int)right, (int)bottom), Color.Orange, Color.OrangeRed, 90.0f);
// Create the actual strategy for the text body used for rendering, with the gradient brush
var strategyText2 = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(gradTextbrush);
// Draw the newly created strategy onto the canvas
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategyText2, canvas, new Point(0, 0), context);
// Finally blit the rendered canvas onto the window
e.Graphics.DrawImage(canvas, 0, 0, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Release all the resources
//============================
maskOutline.Dispose();
maskOutlineAll.Dispose();
gradImage.Dispose();
gradBlitted.Dispose();
maskText.Dispose();
canvas.Dispose();
strategyText.Dispose();
strategyText2.Dispose();
strategyOutline.Dispose();
gradTextbrush.Dispose();
}
void DrawChar(int x_offset, Rectangle rect, TextContext context, Graphics graphics, Matrix mat)
{
Bitmap canvas = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, Color.White, 0);
// Create the outline strategy which is going to shift blit diagonally
var strategyOutline = CanvasHelper.TextOutline(MaskColor.Blue, MaskColor.Blue, 4);
// the single mask outline
Bitmap maskOutline = CanvasHelper.GenMask(strategyOutline, rect.Width, rect.Height, new Point(0, 0), context, mat);
// the mask to store all the single mask blitted diagonally
Bitmap maskOutlineAll = CanvasHelper.GenImage(rect.Width + 10, rect.Height + 10);
Graphics graphMaskAll = Graphics.FromImage(maskOutlineAll);
// blit diagonally
for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i)
{
graphMaskAll.DrawImage(maskOutline, -i, -i, rect.Width, rect.Height);
}
// Measure the dimension of the big mask in order to generate the correct sized gradient image
//=============================================================================================
UInt32 top = 0;
UInt32 bottom = 0;
UInt32 left = 0;
UInt32 right = 0;
CanvasHelper.MeasureMaskLength(maskOutlineAll, MaskColor.Blue, ref top, ref left, ref bottom, ref right);
right += 2;
bottom += 2;
// Generate the gradient image for the diagonal outline
//=======================================================
Bitmap gradImage = CanvasHelper.GenImage((int)(right - left), (int)(bottom - top));
List <Color> listColors = new List <Color>();
listColors.Add(Color.Purple);
listColors.Add(Color.MediumPurple);
DrawGradient.Draw(gradImage, listColors, false);
// Because Canvas::ApplyImageToMask requires all image to have same dimensions,
// we have to blit our small gradient image onto a temp image as big as the canvas
//===================================================================================
Bitmap gradBlitted = CanvasHelper.GenImage(rect.Width, rect.Height);
Graphics graphgradBlitted = Graphics.FromImage(gradBlitted);
graphgradBlitted.DrawImage(gradImage, (int)left, (int)top, (int)(gradImage.Width), (int)(gradImage.Height));
CanvasHelper.ApplyImageToMask(gradBlitted, maskOutlineAll, canvas, MaskColor.Blue, false);
// Create strategy and mask image for the text body
//===================================================
var strategyText = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(MaskColor.Blue);
Bitmap maskText = CanvasHelper.GenMask(strategyText, rect.Width, rect.Height, new Point(0, 0), context, mat);
// Measure the dimension required for text body using the mask
//=============================================================
top = 0;
bottom = 0;
left = 0;
right = 0;
CanvasHelper.MeasureMaskLength(maskText, MaskColor.Blue, ref top, ref left, ref bottom, ref right);
top -= 2;
left -= 2;
right += 2;
bottom += 2;
// Create the gradient brush for the text body
LinearGradientBrush gradTextbrush = new LinearGradientBrush(new Rectangle((int)left, (int)top, (int)right, (int)bottom), Color.DeepPink, Color.LightPink, 90.0f);
// Create the actual strategy for the text body used for rendering, with the gradient brush
var strategyText2 = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(gradTextbrush);
// Draw the newly created strategy onto the canvas
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategyText2, canvas, new Point(0, 0), context, mat);
// Finally blit the rendered canvas onto the window
graphics.DrawImage(canvas, x_offset, 0, rect.Width, rect.Height);
gradImage.Dispose();
gradBlitted.Dispose();
maskText.Dispose();
strategyText.Dispose();
strategyText2.Dispose();
maskOutline.Dispose();
maskOutlineAll.Dispose();
strategyOutline.Dispose();
canvas.Dispose();
}
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
e.Graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
Bitmap canvas = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, Color.White, 0);
// Text context to store string and font info to be sent as parameter to Canvas methods
TextContext context = new TextContext();
FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial Black");
context.fontFamily = fontFamily;
context.fontStyle = FontStyle.Regular;
context.nfontSize = 54;
context.pszText = "VACATION";
context.ptDraw = new Point(0, 0);
Color light_purple = Color.FromArgb(102, 159, 206);
Color dark_purple = Color.FromArgb(35, 68, 95);
using (var strategyOutline3 = CanvasHelper.TextGradOutline(light_purple, dark_purple, light_purple, 9, GradientType.Linear))
{
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategyOutline3, canvas, new Point(0, 0), context);
}
Bitmap maskOutline2;
using (var strategyOutline2 = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(MaskColor.Blue))
{
maskOutline2 = CanvasHelper.GenMask(strategyOutline2, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, new Point(0, 0), context);
}
uint top = 0;
uint bottom = 0;
uint left = 0;
uint right = 0;
CanvasHelper.MeasureMaskLength(maskOutline2, MaskColor.Blue, ref top, ref left, ref bottom, ref right);
bottom += 2;
right += 2;
Color light_yellow = Color.FromArgb(255, 227, 85);
Color dark_yellow = Color.FromArgb(243, 163, 73);
using (Bitmap text = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, dark_yellow))
{
using (var strategyText2 = CanvasHelper.TextGradOutlineLast(light_yellow, dark_yellow, light_yellow, 9, GradientType.Sinusoid))
{
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategyText2, text, new Point(0, 0), context);
CanvasHelper.ApplyImageToMask(text, maskOutline2, canvas, MaskColor.Blue, true);
}
}
// Finally blit the rendered image onto the window
e.Graphics.DrawImage(canvas, 0, 0, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Release all the resources
//============================
e.Graphics.Dispose();
canvas.Dispose();
maskOutline2.Dispose();
}
// Create rainbow Text Effect in Aquarion EVOL anime
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
e.Graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
// Create the outline strategy which is used later on for measuring
// the size of text in order to generate a correct sized gradient image
var strategyOutline2 = CanvasHelper.TextOutline(MaskColor.Blue, MaskColor.Blue, 8);
Bitmap canvas = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, Color.White, 0);
// Text context to store string and font info to be sent as parameter to Canvas methods
TextContext context = new TextContext();
// Load a font from its file into private collection,
// instead of from system font collection
//=============================================================
PrivateFontCollection fontcollection = new PrivateFontCollection();
string szFontFile = "..\\..\\..\\CommonFonts\\Ruzicka TypeK.ttf";
fontcollection.AddFontFile(szFontFile);
if (fontcollection.Families.Count() > 0)
{
context.fontFamily = fontcollection.Families[0];
}
context.fontStyle = FontStyle.Regular;
context.nfontSize = 36;
context.pszText = "I cross over the deep blue void";
context.ptDraw = new Point(0, 0);
// Generate the mask image for measuring the size of the text image required
//============================================================================
Bitmap maskOutline2 = CanvasHelper.GenMask(strategyOutline2, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, new Point(0, 0), context);
uint top = 0;
uint bottom = 0;
uint left = 0;
uint right = 0;
CanvasHelper.MeasureMaskLength(maskOutline2, MaskColor.Blue, ref top, ref left, ref bottom, ref right);
bottom += 2;
right += 2;
// Generate the gradient image
//=============================
Bitmap bmpGrad = new Bitmap((int)(right - left), (int)(bottom - top), PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
List <Color> list = new List <Color>();
list.Add(Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 0));
list.Add(Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 255));
list.Add(Color.FromArgb(0, 255, 0));
DrawGradient.Draw(bmpGrad, list, true);
// Because Canvas::ApplyImageToMask requires the all images to have equal dimension,
// we need to blit our new gradient image onto a larger image to be same size as canvas image
//==============================================================================================
Bitmap bmpGrad2 = new Bitmap(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
Graphics graphGrad = Graphics.FromImage(bmpGrad2);
graphGrad.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
graphGrad.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
graphGrad.DrawImage(bmpGrad, (int)left, (int)top, (int)(right - left), (int)(bottom - top));
// Apply the rainbow text against the blue mask onto the canvas
CanvasHelper.ApplyImageToMask(bmpGrad2, maskOutline2, canvas, MaskColor.Blue, false);
// Draw the (white body and black outline) text onto the canvas
//==============================================================
var strategyOutline1 = CanvasHelper.TextOutline(Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 255), Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0), 4);
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategyOutline1, canvas, new Point(0, 0), context);
// Finally blit the rendered image onto the window
e.Graphics.DrawImage(canvas, 0, 0, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Release all the resources
//============================
e.Graphics.Dispose();
bmpGrad.Dispose();
bmpGrad2.Dispose();
canvas.Dispose();
maskOutline2.Dispose();
strategyOutline2.Dispose();
strategyOutline1.Dispose();
}