GDI+ : Stretching vs. Tiling in Graphics.DrawImage

This should work


        Dim x As System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageAttributes
        x.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
G.DrawImage(PaintImage, Destination, iLeftMargin, iTopMargin, iWidth, iHeight, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, x)

Tried it, but no luck... You try testing it?

Yep, It works

this is how I tested it. The original image (test.jpg) is  141 x 109 big (so it is tiled 4 times, once complete and 3 times incomplete)

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        Dim x As New System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageAttributes
        x.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics
        Dim i As Image = Image.FromFile("c:\test.jpg")
        Dim rec As New Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 200)
        g.DrawImage(i, rec, 0, 0, 200, 200, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, x)
   end sub

I tested your code and it does indeed work.  I'm clueless why this doesn't work for me. Let me tell you what I'm doing. I decided to build a custom tab control that could be skinned, because there weren't any 3rd party controls I liked. So...when a button (or any other window) is skinned, the bitmap used to skin the button is divided into 9 areas, like a tic-tac-toe grid. The corners don't get stretched or tiled, and the sides get stretched or tiled only in such a way as to look pretty.

So I create a class that takes the TopMargin, LeftMargin, RightMargin, and BottomMargin as properties. The user can attach the class to any button, or really any control, and then skin the object in its Paint Event...like so:
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    Private Sub SkinMe(ByVal G As Graphics)
        If imgNormal Is Nothing Then Exit Sub 'If the user hasn't assigned an skinning image yet, just exit

        Dim PaintImage As Image '


        If bInside = True And Not imgMouseover Is Nothing Then 'The the user isn't using a Mouseover image.
            PaintImage = imgMouseover
        Else
            PaintImage = imgNormal
        End If
        If bInside = False Then PaintImage = imgNormal

        Dim RightSideX As Integer
        Dim BottomSideY As Integer
        RightSideX = PaintImage.Width - iRightMargin
        BottomSideY = PaintImage.Height - iBottomMargin

        atTopAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atBottomAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atRightAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atLeftAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atMiddleAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)

        Dim UpperLeftDestination As New Rectangle(0, 0, iLeftMargin, iTopMargin)
        Dim UpperMiddleDestination As New Rectangle(iLeftMargin, 0, sknButton.Width - iRightMargin - iLeftMargin, iTopMargin)
        Dim UpperRightDestination As New Rectangle(sknButton.Width - iRightMargin, 0, iRightMargin, iTopMargin)
        Dim MiddleLeftDestination As New Rectangle(0, iTopMargin, iLeftMargin, sknButton.Height - iBottomMargin - iTopMargin)
        Dim MiddleMiddleDestination As New Rectangle(iLeftMargin, iTopMargin, sknButton.Width - iRightMargin - iLeftMargin, sknButton.Height - iBottomMargin - iTopMargin)
        Dim MiddleRightDestination As New Rectangle(sknButton.Width - iRightMargin, iTopMargin, iRightMargin, sknButton.Height - iBottomMargin - iTopMargin)
        Dim LowerLeftDestination As New Rectangle(0, sknButton.Height - iBottomMargin, iLeftMargin, iBottomMargin)
        Dim LowerMiddleDestination As New Rectangle(iLeftMargin, sknButton.Height - iBottomMargin, sknButton.Width - iRightMargin - iLeftMargin, iBottomMargin)
        Dim LowerRightDestination As New Rectangle(sknButton.Width - iRightMargin, sknButton.Height - iBottomMargin, iRightMargin, iBottomMargin)

        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, UpperLeftDestination, 0, 0, iLeftMargin, iTopMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, MiddleLeftDestination, 0, iTopMargin, iLeftMargin, PaintImage.Height - iBottomMargin - iTopMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, atLeftAttributes)
        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, LowerLeftDestination, 0, BottomSideY, iLeftMargin, iBottomMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)

        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, UpperRightDestination, RightSideX, 0, iRightMargin, iTopMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, MiddleRightDestination, RightSideX, iTopMargin, iRightMargin, PaintImage.Height - iTopMargin - iBottomMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, atRightAttributes)
        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, LowerRightDestination, RightSideX, BottomSideY, iBottomMargin, iRightMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)

        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, UpperMiddleDestination, iLeftMargin, 0, PaintImage.Width - iLeftMargin - iRightMargin, iTopMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, TopAttributes)
        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, MiddleMiddleDestination, iLeftMargin, iTopMargin, PaintImage.Width - iLeftMargin - iRightMargin, PaintImage.Height - iTopMargin - iBottomMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, atMiddleAttributes)
        G.DrawImage(PaintImage, LowerMiddleDestination, iLeftMargin, BottomSideY, PaintImage.Width - iLeftMargin - iRightMargin, iBottomMargin, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, atBottomAttributes)

    End Sub
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The code works...I can anchor a button to three sides of a form, then skin it and it stretches in realtime and does a nice stretched mouseover, too (obviously, there's other code supporting this).

But it doesn't let me choose between tile or stretch. I tried passing attributes as properties, which is ultimately what I want to do. No luck. That led to simply including the block

        atTopAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atBottomAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atRightAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atLeftAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)
        atMiddleAttributes.SetWrapMode(Drawing2D.WrapMode.Tile)

directly in the code that handles the paint event... But it's not working. The program runs and the button edges stretch instead of tile.

Any clues?

Roger

I'll have a look

Awesome, dude. Thanks so much!