TextRenderer is slow, DrawString is wrong

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

After struggling with WinAPI code and hacks in .NET 1.0 I was really looking forward to the TextRenderer class when I first heard about it. But as it turns out, not only is TextRenderer horrible at measuring character size it is also monumentally slow at rendering text. Continued reading >

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Dragging and dropping onto a RichTextBox

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

One of many flaws with the RichTextBox control is its lack of support for drag/drop operations. Luckily it’s simple to add. In fact, it’s so simple you’ll wonder why they didn’t just support it out of the box. Continued reading >

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Making sure a number is between 0 and 255

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Recently while reworking the code for the Ascgen dotNET I needed to make sure that a variable is between 0 and 255 before converting it to a byte, and I needed it to be as fast as possible since it can get called several million times a second. Continued reading >

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Welcome to JMSoftware.co.uk

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I’ve set up this blog to allow me to publish articles, small programs, and general thoughts without cluttering up my main program’s blog with off-topic posts.

Wordpress makes a surprisingly good CMS, but it’ll take me a while before I get everything set up just how I want it so excuse the mess.

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