Special Effects: Display and Drawing

LEADTOOLS provides special effects for developing multimedia projects or presentation applications. You can use many paint effects, dissolves, and transitions. 

Effect options allow you to choose from over 2000 paint effects, 36 gradients, 80 shapes, 12 3-D text styles, 64 dissolves and 43 transition effects with delays, grain sizes, pattern brushes and a colored wand, all with control over the speed and granularity of each effect.  

You can also draw plain or three-dimensional text and graphic shapes on the screen or on the bitmap.

Use LEADTOOLS special effects to develop visually stimulating multimedia projects, presentation applications, or enhance websites.

With LEADTOOLS Special Effects, it is possible to

• Specify an effect that is applied when painting the image from a bitmap.

• Specify a pattern or gradient color transition between images.

• Control speed, granularity, multiple paint passes, transparent color, and wand usage when painting images or transitions.

• Specify a transparent color and paint a control with a transparent background.

When drawing shapes or text objects on the screen or on the bitmap, it is possible to

• Paint a rectangular area that contains a pattern or gradient color (useful for creating a bitmap to be used as the background of a shape object or the foreground of a text object).

• Draw a shape with a three-dimensional appearance. The shape can be created from an existing Windows region, or be one of 80 variations of rectangles, triangles, circles, etc.

• Draw a text object with a three-dimensional appearance, and rotate it with precision to a tenth of a degree.

• Specify a bitmap as the background of a shape, or the foreground of a text object.

• Draw a frame with a three-dimensional appearance.

• Draw a simple Windows-style line, rectangle, or ellipse, with standard options for the drawing mode, pen, and fill.

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