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Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T11:55:06Z

I think Larry and "Nobody" have already got it covered regarding the rotated
solid text and two different methods of drawing it translucently, so I'll
just restrict myself to a few notes about your Adobe Illustrator created wmf
of the rotated outline text. You can generate and print rotated outline text

Re: I thought digital signing was supposed to detect changes?

2009-11-28T07:53:56Z

Yes, I see that now. That sure is a small red x.
Also when I ran the changed exe from a server the tampered message was
at the bottom of the warning screen in the fine print. I was
expecting a much larger red stop sign, etc, etc.
In my opinion this screen is way too similar to the non signed screen

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T07:53:48Z

FYI, the second picturebox really only needs to be the size of
your DRAFT image, which you can position on the page
where you want it.
Also realize that you are working on the bit level, so some colors
for background and foreground may not work as intended. They
might add or subtract from eachother to produce different results.

Re: dhSqliteDemo

2009-11-28T07:29:45Z

First ensure, that you're using the latest Binaries and Demos from:
[link]
Then install all of the Binaries into a separate Folder on
your local Disk, as e.g on:
C:\dhRichClient3\...
To register the COM-Dlls you could run the included
Register.bat file - or do it "by hand" with your tool

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T07:38:53Z

"DORI" <D...@discussions.microsoft.co m> wrote
Here is an idea, but I leave it up to you to determine if its 'better'
It involves And'ing and Or'ing your draft image a couple of times
to achieve the desired effect. You'd end up printing the page to the
printer, and printing your DRAFT image to a picturebox the size of

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T05:57:01Z

Hi Larry,
Thanks for your thoughts. Meanwhile, I tried something else and it seems
that it is solving the problem. I used Illustrator and changed the font to
have a thin "strike" without the "fill" and saved as .WMF so that the letters
appear hollow. Now when I print the WMF image of the letters over the picture

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T04:44:25Z

Search the newsgroups for "vb -dotnet watermark". Some API's to check:
CreateFontIndirect(Ex): Prints text at any angle.
AlphaBlend(): Copies a bitmap with transparency.

Re: dhSqliteDemo

2009-11-28T04:35:00Z

This seems to be unrelated to dhSqliteDemo. That error typically show up if
you first used a control without setting the Index property, then decided
later to use it. In this case, Index parameter must be the first parameter.
Make VB generate the updated event declaration using the code window combo

dhSqliteDemo

2009-11-28T03:43:25Z

After long time away from trying to learn database i'm back to trying to
make a simple jobs/contacts/todo list database for personal use at work
tried to run the dhSqlite demo(right clikced the vbp- hit Start with full
compile)
got the following compile error at this line:
Private Sub AdoDC_FieldChangeComplete(ByVa l cFields As Long, Fields As

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T03:05:11Z

"DORI" <D...@discussions.microsoft.co m> wrote
Okay, scratch my earlier posts...
I can see you want to print the whole thing in one go.
Time to put the thinking cap on....
LFS

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T03:00:02Z

"DORI" <D...@discussions.microsoft.co m> wrote
Be sure you do that. Print the image (using EndDoc) then print over it again
using light grey text.
LFS

Re: Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-28T02:57:04Z

"DORI" <D...@discussions.microsoft.co m> wrote
Did you try making the letter color a very light grey instead of being transparent?
LFS

Diagonal Transparent Text

2009-11-27T23:54:02Z

Dear All,
Form1.Picture1.Image which contains multiple textboxes, is being printed
with Printer.PaintPicture method in my vb6 project (Win XP Pro). Then, I need
to add a line of text, "DRAFT", in diagonal position and with very large font
(like using watermark in MS word) to be printed over the already printed

Re: Creating a self deleting executable using .NET

2009-11-27T21:13:56Z

"C. Kevin Provance" <*@*.*> skrev i meddelandet
I guess from these languge lessons, I can start replying in Swedish. Can't
be any real difference than VB6 to .Nxt. We do have a lot of lent English
words here too, so part of it would be readable.
/Henning

Re: How to add to Windows protocols?

2009-11-27T21:13:39Z

Hello,
HKEY_USERS stores the user settings and this number is the user id.
Generally you'll use HKEY_CURRENT_USER to alter settings for the current
user.
In this particular case, registering a protocol handler is explained here :
[link] (this is stored