How best can I create a panel which allows zoom on a drawing?

I would like to create a panel, or other widget, on which I can draw,
say, a triangle, and use the wheel on the mouse to zoom in and out on
the drawing. A vector drawing.

I know this can be done because I have seen apps that do this. They
were 3D and I only need 2D but they were very fast.

Is there an easy way to do this? Do I need to use the DirectX
libraries to do this?

Any pointer in the right direction would be very welcome and hopefully
save me much time.

Thanks,

Steve

Marc
Fri May 09 07:05:56 CDT 2008

I wonder if your best approach might be to use WPF to render the area?
This natively supports scaleable vector-based graphics - you'd just need
to add the mouse hooks... Try searching for +WPF +zoom

Marc

steve
Fri May 09 07:50:49 CDT 2008


Thanks. My original app was written using Windows Forms. Is there an
easy way to convert to WPF?

Steve



On Fri, 09 May 2008 13:05:56 +0100, Marc Gravell
<marc.gravell@gmail.com> wrote:

>I wonder if your best approach might be to use WPF to render the area?
>This natively supports scaleable vector-based graphics - you'd just need
>to add the mouse hooks... Try searching for +WPF +zoom
>
>Marc

Chris
Fri May 09 08:41:43 CDT 2008

On May 9, 6:48 am, steve <s_j_b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would like to create a panel, or other widget, on which I can draw,
> say, a triangle, and use the wheel on the mouse to zoom in and out on
> the drawing. A vector drawing.
>
> I know this can be done because I have seen apps that do this. They
> were 3D and I only need 2D but they were very fast.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? Do I need to use the DirectX
> libraries to do this?
>
> Any pointer in the right direction would be very welcome and hopefully
> save me much time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

Check out this site:

http://www.bobpowell.net

and this link in particular:

http://www.bobpowell.net/zoompicbox.htm

Chris

Marc
Fri May 09 08:57:42 CDT 2008

Not really, but you can embed WPF in WinForm (via ElementHost) and
WinForm in WPF (via WindowsFormsHost).

However, depending on the complexity, the zooming picturebox (that Chris
mentions) looks interesting.

Marc

steve
Fri May 09 10:23:27 CDT 2008


thanks, I will have to play around with it a bit to see how it would
work for what I want.

Steve



On Fri, 9 May 2008 06:41:43 -0700 (PDT), Chris Dunaway
<dunawayc@gmail.com> wrote:

>On May 9, 6:48 am, steve <s_j_b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I would like to create a panel, or other widget, on which I can draw,
>> say, a triangle, and use the wheel on the mouse to zoom in and out on
>> the drawing. A vector drawing.
>>
>> I know this can be done because I have seen apps that do this. They
>> were 3D and I only need 2D but they were very fast.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to do this? Do I need to use the DirectX
>> libraries to do this?
>>
>> Any pointer in the right direction would be very welcome and hopefully
>> save me much time.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>
>Check out this site:
>
>http://www.bobpowell.net
>
>and this link in particular:
>
>http://www.bobpowell.net/zoompicbox.htm
>
>Chris