I too have a similar issue. The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it. My latest tip/trick

Thanks now I can see ;) Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim So Smile Please

Ahem, he wrote, that there seems to be an issue with Codeproject, but he posted it here in the Lounge - that means Codeproject is not down for him and the problem seems to be somewhere else. He also wrote that it doesn't display properly. So why should he check that website? :doh: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)

Today again I received 4 mails of single alternative answer Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim So Smile Please

Maybe the coding horror is premature optimisation? Unless the programmer has determined that this is a bottleneck, the better one is the one that expresses the logic most clearly (the one without the extra test, for my money), not the one with the lowest "cost". And if the programmer has determined that this is a bottleneck, they can use the same tools to find out which is faster.

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you got it :) Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim So Smile Please

Ravi Santlani wrote: at general application level. System level architecture Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim So Smile Please

I was saying this because I checked my posts and there isn't much change (or down-voting for that matter). I don't understand why there is sudden plunge in my reputation points. ..Go Green..

The difference will be trivial. If you're generating your background image from within your program, you should consider that GDI will probably have better algorithms than you for doing this. Also if your form is resized, you'll have to recalculate your background at every resize. If the form is only displayed once, you'll take a performance hit from going to an outside file, or paging in the resource you're using for the background. (bigger executable = larger loading time). But again, this are trivial performance differences.. Since you're displaying a form, I suspect that you want some user interaction. The user won't notice the difference.

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The way you'd capitalised that I thought I'd be looking at some parachute based entertainment :-(

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Thank you very much for your response I have already found it. Microchip controller PIC18F4550 VID (Vendor ID) = 0x04D8 PID (Product ID) = 0x0011 Thanks agin

As far as I know you will have to start at one corner and then traverse each pixel checking its colour. When the colour changes from white to black you have discovered a leading edge, then when it next changes from black to white, you have a trailing edge. Once you have captured all the edge points you may want to order them in some way to optimise drawing, e.g. by figuring out all the straight lines. MVP 2010 - are they mad?

Thanks Anurag

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