Picture control forgets its image after resizing

[elset191]

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Darin.K wrote:
Before you resize, try Picture to Bitmap followed by Draw Flattened Pixmap to get your picture back.  If you have a lot of overlapping picture elements, flattening should speed the drawing process.

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That method (at least how I implemented it) doesn't operate faster, and results in an image with less resolution.

[Ben]

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elset191 wrote:
Where did you learn/what made you think to try concatenate strings on images?

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Take alook at this post by Norm Kirshner (Ex-LabVIEW Champion now with NI). He does a partial brain dump re:hacking the picture. I don't know if his comments are complete (I did not follow eveyrything he said).

If you type cast as a string you will see waht look very similar to HPGL (HP Graphic Language) used for plotter back when GPIB was called HPIB.

Ben

[Darin.K · Accepted solution]

Just a crazy thought before you dive into the world of pictures.  Could you simply redraw at the smaller scale instead of resizing?  I forgot that your real application isn't as simple as the example, so yes, scaling a bitmap image could lead to some ugliness.

Great post that Ben linked to, I should have remembered that one.  I came across it a few weeks ago, and it was one of my favorite replies to one of my favorite threads.  Trying to delve into the inner workings of LV in order to push the envelope, there is a person after my own heart!

[elset191]

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Darin.K wrote:

Just a crazy thought before you dive into the world of pictures.  Could you simply redraw at the smaller scale instead of resizing? 

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That's how I'm doing it.  Not ideal, but it redraws fast enough to be sufficient.