VB Controls, Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98?

Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98?

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M. L. Harve #1 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? If I set the height of a picture box to 128000 on Win98, then I get an error when I try to write to it with Print. If I set it to 62,000 everything works fine. Does anyone know anything about this apparent limitation? On XP I get no error. thanks M. L. Harvey
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:07:26 GMT

Grinde #2 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? Quote: > If I set the height of a picture box to 128000 on Win98, > then I get an error when I try to write to it with Print. > If I set it to 62,000 everything works fine. > Does anyone know anything about this apparent limitation? > On XP I get no error. This might be relevant: http://homepages.borland.com/efg2lab/Graphics/VeryLargeBitmap.h tm A couple of questions: 1) How wide is the picture box? 2) Is AutoRedraw = True?
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:34:15 GMT

dnage #3 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? I believe that if you never make it visible you can exceed the full screen size limitation. D. Quote: > If I set the height of a picture box to 128000 on Win98, > then I get an error when I try to write to it with Print. > If I set it to 62,000 everything works fine. > Does anyone know anything about this apparent limitation? > On XP I get no error. > thanks > M. L. Harvey
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:13:55 GMT

M. L. Harve #4 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? To answer your questions, the width is 14000 and autoredraw = True, yes. M. L. Harvey Quote: >-----Original Message----- message >> If I set the height of a picture box to 128000 on Win98, >> then I get an error when I try to write to it with Print. >> If I set it to 62,000 everything works fine. >> Does anyone know anything about this apparent limitation? >> On XP I get no error. >This might be relevant: >http://homepages.borland.com/efg2lab/Graphics/VeryLargeBit map.h >tm >A couple of questions: >1) How wide is the picture box? >2) Is AutoRedraw = True? >.
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:17:06 GMT

M. L. Harve #5 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? It may be relevant--I print to the pic box but do not display a graphic in it. M. L. Harvey Quote: >-----Original Message----- >To answer your questions, the width is 14000 and >autoredraw = True, yes. >M. L. Harvey >>-----Original Message----- >message >>> If I set the height of a picture box to 128000 on Win98, >>> then I get an error when I try to write to it with >Print. >>> If I set it to 62,000 everything works fine. >>> Does anyone know anything about this apparent >limitation? >>> On XP I get no error. >>This might be relevant: >>http://homepages.borland.com/efg2lab/Graphics/VeryLargeBi t >map.h >>tm >>A couple of questions: >>1) How wide is the picture box? >>2) Is AutoRedraw = True? >>. >.
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:24:42 GMT

Grinde #6 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? Quote: > It may be relevant--I print to the pic box but do not > display a graphic in it. I suspect you're getting hosed by a video card limitation. Try the test application at that link that I sent you, and see if it's consistent with what you're seeing.
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:35:50 GMT

Dave Marti #7 / 7	Picture Box Height Limitation on Win98? Quote: > If I set the height of a picture box to 128000 on Win98, > then I get an error when I try to write to it with Print. > If I set it to 62,000 everything works fine. > Does anyone know anything about this apparent limitation? > On XP I get no error. > thanks > M. L. Harvey Hi, I suspect that the problem lies in the fact that VB's PictureBox control stores its image in a "Device-Dependent Bitmap" ("DDB") rather than a "Device-Independent Bitmap" ("DIB"). The advantage of DDBs is that they are much faster than DIBs, the disadvantage is that DDBs are limited to a fixed maximum size, presumably to ensure that a single graphic does not use up all available system resources/memory. I have worked around this problem in the past by splitting large graphics into chunks which will fit into the largest PictureBox which can be created. Hope that helps, Dave.
Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:40:34 GMT

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