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Automate Button Creation/Modification

Is anyone aware of any features in .NET or 3rd party tools that would enable
the automated creation/modification of graphics (e.g., buttons with text in
them). I frequently need to modify only the text in various buttons, and I'm
getting tired of doing it manually. I know there's GDI+, but I'm looking for
something that doesn't require a lot of programming - if possible. Ideally
something to which I can supply an input file with parameter values in it,
and it cranks out the gif files for me.

Thanks.
Nov 18 '05 #1
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This would be pretty easy to build with GDI+ though. Just provide a
background image and then set the text on top of it... You can write a quick
utility that does this in batch for example or parses an input file.

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Is anyone aware of any features in .NET or 3rd party tools that would enable the automated creation/modification of graphics (e.g., buttons with text in them). I frequently need to modify only the text in various buttons, and I'm getting tired of doing it manually. I know there's GDI+, but I'm looking for something that doesn't require a lot of programming - if possible. Ideally
something to which I can supply an input file with parameter values in it,
and it cranks out the gif files for me.

Thanks.

Nov 18 '05 #2
I forgot - graphics are a lot easier in .NET than in the other worlds. Can
you recommend a good resource (hopefully online) for getting up to speed on
GDI+ ? I'll look around myself, but if you already know of one that would be
great to have.

Thanks.
"Rick Strahl [MVP]" <ri********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This would be pretty easy to build with GDI+ though. Just provide a
background image and then set the text on top of it... You can write a quick utility that does this in batch for example or parses an input file.

+++ Rick ---

--

Rick Strahl
West Wind Technologies
http://www.west-wind.com/
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/
----------------------------------
Making waves on the Web
"Jeremy" <A@B.com> wrote in message
news:eO**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
Is anyone aware of any features in .NET or 3rd party tools that would

enable
the automated creation/modification of graphics (e.g., buttons with text

in
them). I frequently need to modify only the text in various buttons, and

I'm
getting tired of doing it manually. I know there's GDI+, but I'm looking

for
something that doesn't require a lot of programming - if possible. Ideally something to which I can supply an input file with parameter values in it, and it cranks out the gif files for me.

Thanks.


Nov 18 '05 #3

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