cropping using a select rectangle

i would like to crop an image using an interactive selected rectangle.

i can get the rectangle to display using

TabPage tp = tabControl1.SelectedTab;
RasterImageViewer riv = (RasterImageViewer)tp.Controls[0];
_viewer = riv;
_viewer.InteractiveMode = RasterViewerInteractiveMode.Region;
_viewer.InteractiveRegionType = RasterViewerInteractiveRegionType.Rectangle;

i also have an event handler to handle when the rectangle is finished drawing;

I would like to use the rectangle to give the parameters to the crop command but dont have a clue how to do it

 

help!

Maen,

After converting the project to C#, It did exactly what i wanted.

 

Thanks you very much for your prompt and accurate information.

 

Thanks again,

Al Price

I was wondering if we can pre-draw the rectangle beforehand instead of the user have to draw it with the mouse. I think this makes things easier like:
http://demo.aurigma.com/PhotoEditor/

also I like the grey area outside of it. I think the way you adjust it should be the dot on the sides instead of corners.

 

Anyway to do this?

To pre-draw the rectangle, you can simply call AddRectangleToRegion to create the region programmatically.

What I want to know is how to make the rectangle adjustable by dragging the borders and also how to grey out the area outside of it.

The best way to make the region adjustable is by using
annotations.  With annotations, you can create shapes of various
types (e.g. rectangle, circle, etc.) and adjust it using the mouse
without any code.  This feature is part of Document Imaging.  The only other solution is to implement this using mouse events.


As for graying the are outside the region, this is not straight forward
because the GrayScaleCommand changes the whole image, not just the region.  One way to implement this is as follows:


Create a  copy of the original image (without the region) and
convert it to grayscale using GrayScaleCommand, then convert it back to
24-bits using ColorResolutionCommand.  Then use the Combine method to copy/paste the region from the original image to the grayscale one.


If this is too much overhead for you, then you can just change the
intensity of the region using ChangeIntensityCommand to make it stand out.  This command works on the region only.

Hope this helps.