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Windows Forms is a graphical API of Microsoft .NET Framework, a wrapper providing access to native Microsoft Windows interface elements.

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I decided to learn about building games, so I picked up C# to use it along with Windows Form - I already have C# experience, so that was the main reason I did so. That said, I tasked myself to build a ...
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With the following encoding, only the audio part of the video is played, but the video itself is not shown: ...
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I'm making a simple game in C# and i'm trying to slice my UI images into 9 smaller rectangles, so the image doesn't get stretched when drawing to different resolutions, but i'm having lots of problems ...
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I'm making a simple game in C# and i'm having some problems with rectangle collisions. What i'm doing is checking if two rectangles intersects, checking the side of collision and then moving the ...
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I'm making a simple game in C# for practice and i'm having some problems when dragging a sprite and making another sprite follow it. What i'm trying to achieve: When dragging a sprite, i want ...
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I'm writing a simple game in C# and i'm having some difficulty to calculate the local position of a sprite. What i'm aiming to achieve: Calculate the sprite "local position" relative to the ...
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I'm trying to implement an input listener for FNA (modern version of XNA). Since FNA does not supply any sort of way to listen to native input this has to be done through the windows API and native ...
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I'm developing a WinForms customized version of Pac-Man for a Software Engineering project and I reached the point where I have to implement music and sound effects. I used the MVC architectural ...
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I am developing a character creator using Windows Forms (because apparently I can't create menus in Unity), and I want to display some tips and descriptions in a ...
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I'm having interesting problem with rotating a sprite in MonoGame. Here is how origin, destination rectangle and scale are created: ...
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I have to show frames from two cameras in two openGl control separately at same time. For that I have put two opengl control in my form and pass those frames to opengl accordingly. But when running ...
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I have almost solved my problem. I am able to shoot a bullet and hit a bug and it then draws a collision bitmap. but then it redraws a bug, I want to clear the bug bitmap after the collision happens. ...
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I am able to draw my space ship and a an enemy (called "bug_one" in the code below) and move my bullet. When the bullet hits the enemy, it draws a collision bmp. But currently my code draws both the ...
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I am working on a space invaders clone using bugs as aliens. Everything works ok but the bug bitmap flickers on the screen. ...
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I am making a pong game using gdi+ and c#. I want to move the paddle using the arrow keys by using the move variable, but it does not work; the paddle does move when I use the int move=0; global ...
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I've problem with my MonoGame project. I have one full-screen game window and one window form with some info (part of the game too). And the problem lies in when I click on the window form, the main ...
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I was following the book "XNA 4.0 Game Development By Example" and in the eighth chapter, the author adds windows form to an XNA game. I was following the book for a MonoGame project, but I get null ...
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There is a very good game loop in the link which is tailored for windows forms. I need it in c++/cli so I converted the code as below. Here is my main loop. ...
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I want my xml files to be game ready on save in my winforms. Right now I am trying to serialize a simple object like this and it is accessing the XML file, but not outputting anything. Am I missing ...
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I'm trying to render my game (SDL2, C++) in a Windows Form application (C#) using C++/CLI to interface with my underlying C++ code. The purpose of the form is to create an editor which can monitor/...
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this game isn't completed yet, i've created the part where the ball hits the board, but there's problem in playing and that's the ball stucking in the board. For a better comprehension and ...
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I'm trying to open a form in front of my game, which is full-screen. However, the form seems to appear only behind the game window. At the moment, I'm doing this: ...
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I haven't seen any questions related to my issue, and this leads me to believe I'm missing something minor, however; The Problem I'm creating a game that is effectively launched from a windows form. ...
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I am making a faux console using winforms for the game I am working on. Right now I am moving a '0' across the screen using the arrow keys. In order to provide fine grain formatting on the text, I ...
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I'm trying to make a stenotype-teaching game using the stenoboard as input. The Stenoboard emulates an NKRO keyboard, using this code: https://github.com/caru/StenoFW/blob/master/StenoFW.ino, with an ...
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I am coding a very basic side-scrolling game in C#, using Windows Forms. I want to connect my game's levels with 'exit points'. When the player touches an exit point, a new form should be loaded ...
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I'm creating a basic scene/level editor using XNA/Winforms using the base classes from http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/winforms_series_1 Everything works fine and gets drawn ...
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I have a game in XNA, I want to connect this game with WindowForm to show for example the distance and the position. I tried to apply many tutorials that talking about this. but here is my problem : ...
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I'm considering the use of SlimDX in a managed Windows Forms Application. Available with DirectX is DXUT. I use DXUT to handle events such as window resizing and 'lost devices.' How well does SlimDX ...
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When writing a game in C# that uses plain-old Windows Forms and some graphics API wrapper like SlimDX or OpenTK, how should the main game loop be structured? A canonical Windows Forms application has ...
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I have three projects in one solution: a form with some tool (see it as a level-editor), in which there is PictureBox where I want to redirect drawing of the game. My game, with some methods and its ...
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I just finished to code the most important parts of my game engine (not a tile-map one), such as lights, shadows, objects update/draw, input, ecc. Now I'm making a level editor to simplify the ...
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I'm using the Winforms sample on the app hub and everything is working fine except my spritebatch won't draw anything unless I call Invalidate in the Draw method. I have this in my initialize method: ...
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I'm using winforms with xna. Everything's working so far except for the drawing because invalidate won't refresh the screen unless repeated. This is the initial code I had: ...
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I was able to create a form in xna using "Add Windows Form", named "Form1" then adding: ...
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So, I'm making a simple game. It's like snake but the picturebox doesn't grow. In the game, you have to get fruits and other objects. Look at berry's code: ...
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Before I get started I would just like to say that I have been using the Microsoft Winform + Xna examples found here: WinForms Series 1: Graphics Device I think I somewhat understand how its working ...
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I have reviewed the relevant WinForms/XNA samples here and here. However, my requirements are slightly different. Given the following: I am developing a multiplayer (Client - Server) game There will ...
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I'm working on a basic 2D tilemap editor in C#/XNA. Currently, it displays the map through a picturebox through which XNA's output is being routed, and editing is accomplished through simply checking ...
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Can anyone tell me how to set the positions of model vertices? I want to be able to change the position of some of the vertices of a Model. Is there any way to make that happen? And make the changed ...
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Hi I'm trying to learn how to load a .obj file using OpenTK in windows Forms. I have seen a lot of examples out there, but I do see almost everyone uses ...
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I'm working on a game in XNA, which has an inbuilt level editor. To facilitate this I want use the FileOpenDialog from Winforms. I followed the instructions as per ...
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I am writing a turn based strategy game in C#. My GUI implementation consists of class that extends Form containing a class that extends Panel. When I render the GUI I draw to the paint method in ...
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What I've found is a solution where you have to code a custom GraphicsDeviceControl to put inside the form (the well known tutorial from the APPHub), but that's not what I'm searching for. I would ...
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I am making a 15 Puzzle game in C# that allows the user to enter a custom row and column value up to a maximum of a 10 x 10 puzzle. I am having problems with the shuffle method. I want to make it so ...
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Is it possible to place a MenuStrip into a XNA 4.0 project. This project is intended for PC-s only and I already have openFile dialogs, but I cant get the MenuStrip drawn. If this is not possible what ...
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Okay, this is may be very simple. I embedded my XNA project in WinForms through "this tutorial" and it works fine even with XNA 4. Now I have a 3D CoilSpring object and the number of loops for this ...
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I'm trying to create a Game Editor, currently just placing different types of Shapes and such. I'm doing this in Windows Forms while drawing the 3D with XNA. So, if I have a couple of Shapes on the ...
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I have a mixed .NET application (managed and unmanaged code bridged by C++/CLI wrappers) which uses unmanaged Direct3D9 9.0c to do rendering inside a control which is wrapped inside a C++/CLI class ...
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