I am using Microsoft rdlc for making report and need to add background image to the textbox but it shows part of the image (I know I can just make an image of smaller resolution but I need this one because of the resizing).
I can't find anything for scaling.
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Every week I get some image updates from our graphic designer and often the sizes change. I am now bored of manually working out the size of the image and setting the button size to suit - a process I must follow to ensure the image is displayed at it's natural size for best quality.
Surely there must be a way in xcode to tell it to size the button to suit the background image?
Select the element in the storyboard and under the editor menu, you can select "size to fit content".
Wondering if someone could help me....
I have a small .NET application where I have an Edit button on a main form. When the user clicks the Edit button, I want to popup a small form right next to it (on top of the main form) with a speech balloon tail attached on the side of the form pointing to the Edit button. So it gives the effect of a floating form pushed out from the Edit button.
I don't want the appearance of a normal speech bubble, I want it to look like an actual borderless form (with square corners). It could be a custom control or anything (however, I am not yet familiar with creating my own custom controls), but I need to add Text Controls, Pictures, Label Controls, etc. to this floating form.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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I am trying to create something to this affect:
So imagine the ? being the Edit button and the other being a form with custom controls.
Like this?
To get this behavior:
Select an image which will represent your speech bubble. Put a PictureBox on the form, make it use this image. Place two labels, as above, adjust the font.
Pick your transparency key (color). Your image background and form background need to be set to that. I used black for demo purposes, which is a bad choice if you plan to have any black or text in your speech bubble. Set form's TransparencyKey property to this color in designer. More about TransparencyKey on MSDN.
(final step, not shown on the screenshot). Set FormBorderStyle = None.
Also make sure you have other ways to close your bubble, because X will be unavailable.
The final result may look something like the following:
Note: You may notice some drawing artifacts, most images on the internet have smooth borders, and transparency key does not support shades, has to be exact color. If you are fine with these minor artifacts, feel free to leave it at that. Or, edit it to get rough borders. Or find another one that better suits your needs.
I've done this before, but I'm working in 2010 now and it doesn't seem to be working.
I'm trying to make a thumbnail view of an image control. The pictures I store (text field, just linking to a directory) are large and have their own form to open and view them at resolution, but I want to display a small thumbnail of the picture.
I have an image control with the control source set to the image field of my record source. It changes fine with I navigate records, but it shows a zoomed "window" of the image instead of scaling the image down to a thumbnail like it worked in the past.
I've tried the "size to fit" option, thinking that would do the trick but it doesn't.
Is there a different property that I could use? I don't mind writing a little VBA for this either, but I figured it would have worked by just using the form controls.
I just tried this using a regular old Image control in Access 2010 and it worked fine for me when I changed its dimensions to something "thumbnail sized" (0.5" x 0.5") and set the Size Mode property to Zoom.
I'm trying to create a live tile for my application, using a user control.
The user control contains a grid, an image and a rectangle filled with color.
Now here comes the funny part.
I want the rectangle to act as a background for the tile's title, and the image to fill the rest of the tile. And i said to myself, well, lets put some rows in that grid and set the like you usually set them in a WPF/SL application.
I then write the entire thing in a WBM and save it to isostore.
The problem is, the parser seems to ignore the presence of grid's rows. regardless of what I try, the rectangle is not shown, and the image covers the full tile, when it should only cover the first row. It is as if the grid didn't even existed.
Another funny aspect is that it doesn't matter if I use rows or columns, the result is the same.
Any ideas?
Are you using the following method?
Dynamic LiveTile - adding background image?
I recently implemented a Live Tile using a Grid with Rows and Columns for layout of some TextBlocks. I encountered similar challenges, so I placed the control that I was using for my Live Tile on a blank page in my app to better see what was happening. Does the control render correctly when displayed on a page (versus being rendered to a WriteableBitmap)?
Another idea. Instead of trying to position the Rectangle relative to the tile's Title, why not leave the Title property blank and put the same text in a TextBlock within the user control?
If you are careful about the font and positioning of the TextBlock, the text on the resulting background image can appear indistinguishable from text displayed from the Title property. I decided to follow this strategy myself. I found the font information in the following answer:
Font size and family for a tile's title
Otherwise, could you post an example of the XAML you are using?
Visual Studio 2010 with reportviewer -
overlapping elements texboxes, rectangles, pictures PROBLEM.
I need a form that contains small fonts and fields with colored background. The only way to do it I see placing textboxes over frames or over pictures. It does not work.
If I use body background to display an empty form, it gives me only quality of 96 dpi which is not enough to ptint this background properly.