Image Transitions And Adding Text On The Fly

Hi,

I'm using the raster component to display a slideshow. I would like to be able to display debug information during the slideshow which I can show and hide with a keypress. I have implemented this just using a .net label control but it looks a bit messy and doesn't paint well during the transitions.

I have looked at the Draw3dText method and I can get text to display either before or after a transition but not during. I have also had a brief look into the annotations class but I'm not sure I'm looking in the write direction with this and if I am then it looks like I'd have a lot of learning to do before I achieved my goal.

The code I am using to do the transitions is:

'dispose of the image if its not nothing
If Not m_objRasterImage Is Nothing Then
    m_objRasterImage.Dispose()
End If

'load the image to display
m_objRasterImage = m_objRasterCodecs.Load(strPathAndFilename)

'set the raster operation
objRasterPaintProperties.RasterOperation = RasterPaintProperties.SourceCopy

'transition in the image
m_objSpecialEffectsProcessor.PaintImage(objGraphics, m_objRasterImage, Rectangle.Empty, Rectangle.Empty, objClientRectangle, objClientRectangle, objSpecialEffectsType, lngEffectGrain, lngEffectDelay, 0, 0, 1, 1, False, Color.Empty, 0, Color.Empty, objRasterPaintProperties, Nothing)

'dispose of the graphics object cos the transition is complete
objGraphics.Dispose()

Is there any way that I could add some black text in a white rectangle (rectangle to auto size to size of text if possible) in the bottom right corner of an image on the fly so that the text is included in the transition?

Thanks for your time in advance

Keith

PS. It would be great if there was a command as simple as m_objRasterImage.AddText ;-)

Keith,
Like you found out, you can draw text on the Graphics object before or after the transition has completed, but not during that.

You can also draw text on the bitmap image itself (modify the pixel data). If this gives you acceptable results, the only way to turn the text off is to save the region where the text is written in a secondary image object, then copy it back into the main image when you want to remove the text.

Please can you point me in the right direction for drawing text on the image itself. A small bit of sample code would be great ;-)

Cheers

Keith

Keith,
To write text (or any GDI object) on the image, you can do it like this:

Leadtools.RasterImageGdiPlusGraphicsContainer GdiPlusGraphicsContainer = LeadRasterImage.CreateGdiPlusGraphics();
GdiPlusGraphicsContainer.Graphics.DrawString("Just a string", new Font("Times New Roman", 14), Brushes.Black, new PointF(10, 10));
GdiPlusGraphicsContainer.Dispose();

If the text written this way gives you acceptable results, and you don't want it to be permanent, you will need first to copy the portion of the image before you write the text, and later restore it to the same location.
To do that, you can create a secondary image using RasterImage.Clone(Rectangle) function, and later restore the data from it using the Leadtools.ImageProcessing.CombineFastCommand() method.

Amin,

Thanks. That worked perfectly.