Results for "Author: scythe"
Creates a Lens effect like u know from some demos or the windows screensavers. think this is the fastest way to do this in VB. Runs smooth on my 333MHz PC. NEW Lens Calculation is faster (thx to Carles P.V.) and some errors fixed (Thx to Robert Rayment)
Its a simple and fast snowfall simulator where the snow stays on every place it whould stay normaly (2,5K Zip). It´s an very old source from me i only comented it for psc.
Its a simple and real fast Alphablend routine in pure VB. Now its faster and i added realtime Fade.
Updated: Show Hotkey, Disabled Menus, Seperator, Checked, Better routines, Now you only have to add the module and 1 line of code on your form. Change all Menucolors (Text, Background, Selection and Selected Text) thru subclassing. Still use VB Menus like allways no extra coding needed. popups are possible. only 16k bigger EXE.
A control to get Mouse Over,Out,Middle Button & Wheel for any control with hWnd.
One of the most advanced routines in picture editing. Remove undesirable parts from pictures. With this routine the picture looks like the removed part was never there like you can see on the screenshot. Please leave comments and if you like it then vote :-) Update: Fixed some errors and updated the gui
Updated !!! Create Bitmap Shaped/Transparent Forms and SAVE them with or without Pictures. The new Form has no calculation to do no loading of background images minimal code on it (About 1K) .... Fast and easy way to make shaped forms. Fixed errors and increased the speed it up.
Convert Pictures to Oilpaintings. Fast (if compiled) and nice effect. I think this is the first VB version of such a effect. Please leave comments.
A Tetris like game but a this one is complete new. I never found something similar on the net. Click balls with same clored neighbour to remove them. Balls will fall down an fill the hole but they also fall from the sides like they would in real live. 3 Gameversion each with 4 degree of difficulty. Cascade (by Fosters here on PSC), Balls and Balls with Bombs. About 40K for the exe. Easy code. No CPU usage. Runs from 95 to XP. I still search for ideas to improve the game. Vote if you like it.
Check for HTTP status without Inet Control using simple Api. Test if a Webpage/Server is still there or not.
Simple Demo how to create a VectorFont from any TrueType Font using GetPath "gdi" Api. Now u can use the vectors for 3D.....
Call an api by its name without Declare. Usefull for Sripts or if u dont know if the Machine is XP or 95...
Creates Logos on the Fly. Look at the Screenshot. Using on of the over 40 Effects Hover Font (Like Windows Shadow), Glowing Border, Fading Border, Gradients, Change Textures Brightnes, Supports any True Type Font, AntiAlias Alpha Blend, Mirror Font, Embos or Engrave Font, Deform texture using Embos/Engrave,Invert Background evrywhere the Font hits,Backlight Text like MIB Logo, Set Textures / Gradients / Single Colors for the Font, Set Borders with Textures / Gradient / Single Color / Glow Effekt,Fade Effekt, Choose Bordersize & Sides (Left,Right, Up, Down), Use any Picture as Texture, Load any Picture as Background and Shrink/Stretch/Tile it if u like, Finish ur Logo using folowing functions, Draw (Points/Lines/Boxes) Use Filters (Monochrome/Blur/De Pixel/Negative), Bend the Logo Create relistic Shadows, Multilanguage Support (Make ur own Language pack in 5 mins) Save ur Logo or Copy it to the Clipboard, New and easyer GUI,Save and Load your Logos as LMF, File assotiation, Preview for Loading, ..... Comes with 120 Textures and 46 Embos Pictures in English/German/Serbian Language and a Translator Tool.
A transparent Starwars Scroller Control for About dialogs... U can load the Scrolltext from a File or crete it as string.You can change: Font, Scollspeed, Size... There is an Speedtest so it will sroll with the same speed on any PC....
Automatic free your Physical Ram. Show the actual ramstatus as TrayIcon and free ram if its getting low. I get about 85% of free Ram on Win98 (installed 98 :-)