GDI

Great Reads

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

by Hans Dietrich

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

by Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

Saving Drawing Contexts

by Joseph M. Newcomer

GDI objects selected in a DC can't be deleted - even when you call DeleteObject. This handy class makes these potential leaks a thing of the past.

Latest Articles

A basic icon editor running on ReactOS (and consequently on Windows XP and newer versions)

by Steffen Ploetz

About the creation of a basic icon editor with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the stability of application development capabilities on ReactOS.

Approach to Paste a Bitmap into an Icon Image on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions, using Win32 API)

by Steffen Ploetz

Step-by-step instructions and source code snippets for inserting a bitmap (or a section of it) into an icon image.

EBDT (Mono Embedded Bitmap Data in TrueType Font) to BM (BitMap)

by LeisureBamboo

Randomly read any embedded_mono_matrix in TTF file, export it to bitmap files (in package)

Automatically disappearing dialog, used to provide VERIFY and ASSERT on ReactOS

by Steffen Ploetz

A universal automatic disappearing dialog that can be used during mouse capture, designed for implementing VERIFY and ASSERT on ReactOS, running on any version of Windows.