Manual scroll rendering

[Workgroups]

I need to scroll a virtual grid that is 1.2M pixels x 1.28M pixels in size.
I think this is too large of a size for a control or a form, so I think I
need to "fake it" with a custom drawn control.

I do not need to maintain a bitmap or make the control surface physically
larger than the screen, becuase I can create the grid dynamically based upon
any virtual X, Y upper-left coordinate of the currently viewed area. E.g.,
if I am scrolled to X=82503 and Y=53301, I can pain what the grid would
theoretically look like at this position, without having to actually
maintain a grid that is actually that large.

Because I won't be working with a control that is bigger than the
screen/form, I have placed v&h scrollbar controls on my control, and
OnScroll I invalidate the newly scrolled area to trigger OnPaint (modeled
loosely after observing autoscroll's invalidation behavior).

But my problem with the painting is not the new, invalidated area; it's
"shifting" the non-invalidated, already-drawn portion without having to
repaint the whole thing from scratch. I don't know how to do this part - I
think I want to perform a Transform? But it seems rather complex (I don't
really understand the matrix object!)

If I click my vertical scroll bar and the thumb moves 10 pixels "down", in
response to this OnPaint I need to "shift" the currently painted scene up
10px, thus exposing an "invalidate d" 10px area at the bottom. I can draw
this new 10px portion just fine, but... how do I perform this "shift" of the
previously painted area? When I used to rely on autoscroll to invalidate
for me, I only had to worry about painting the newly invalidated area and
the "shift" happened automatically (and smoothly) and now without the
benefit of autoscroll I want to reproduce that manually.

[Some Guy]

Try using ScrollWindow.

Private Declare Function ScrollWindow Lib "user32.dll " (ByVal hWnd As Int32,
ByVal XAmount As Int32, ByVal YAmount As Int32, ByRef lpRect As RECT, ByRef
lpClipRect As RECT) As Int32
"Workgroups " <no*****@domain less.com> wrote in message
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I need to scroll a virtual grid that is 1.2M pixels x 1.28M pixels in size.
I think this is too large of a size for a control or a form, so I think I
need to "fake it" with a custom drawn control.

I do not need to maintain a bitmap or make the control surface physically
larger than the screen, becuase I can create the grid dynamically based
upon any virtual X, Y upper-left coordinate of the currently viewed area.
E.g., if I am scrolled to X=82503 and Y=53301, I can pain what the grid
would theoretically look like at this position, without having to actually
maintain a grid that is actually that large.

Because I won't be working with a control that is bigger than the
screen/form, I have placed v&h scrollbar controls on my control, and
OnScroll I invalidate the newly scrolled area to trigger OnPaint (modeled
loosely after observing autoscroll's invalidation behavior).

But my problem with the painting is not the new, invalidated area; it's
"shifting" the non-invalidated, already-drawn portion without having to
repaint the whole thing from scratch. I don't know how to do this part -
I think I want to perform a Transform? But it seems rather complex (I
don't really understand the matrix object!)

If I click my vertical scroll bar and the thumb moves 10 pixels "down", in
response to this OnPaint I need to "shift" the currently painted scene up
10px, thus exposing an "invalidate d" 10px area at the bottom. I can draw
this new 10px portion just fine, but... how do I perform this "shift" of
the previously painted area? When I used to rely on autoscroll to
invalidate for me, I only had to worry about painting the newly
invalidated area and the "shift" happened automatically (and smoothly) and
now without the benefit of autoscroll I want to reproduce that manually.

[Workgroups]

Yes that does the trick. Thanks for your help.

"Some Guy" <no*****@nowher e.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. ..

Try using ScrollWindow.

Private Declare Function ScrollWindow Lib "user32.dll " (ByVal hWnd As
Int32, ByVal XAmount As Int32, ByVal YAmount As Int32, ByRef lpRect As
RECT, ByRef lpClipRect As RECT) As Int32
"Workgroups " <no*****@domain less.com> wrote in message
news:3s******** ************@sp eakeasy.net...

I need to scroll a virtual grid that is 1.2M pixels x 1.28M pixels in
size. I think this is too large of a size for a control or a form, so I
think I need to "fake it" with a custom drawn control.

I do not need to maintain a bitmap or make the control surface physically
larger than the screen, becuase I can create the grid dynamically based
upon any virtual X, Y upper-left coordinate of the currently viewed area.
E.g., if I am scrolled to X=82503 and Y=53301, I can pain what the grid
would theoretically look like at this position, without having to
actually maintain a grid that is actually that large.

Because I won't be working with a control that is bigger than the
screen/form, I have placed v&h scrollbar controls on my control, and
OnScroll I invalidate the newly scrolled area to trigger OnPaint (modeled
loosely after observing autoscroll's invalidation behavior).

But my problem with the painting is not the new, invalidated area; it's
"shifting" the non-invalidated, already-drawn portion without having to
repaint the whole thing from scratch. I don't know how to do this part -
I think I want to perform a Transform? But it seems rather complex (I
don't really understand the matrix object!)

If I click my vertical scroll bar and the thumb moves 10 pixels "down",
in response to this OnPaint I need to "shift" the currently painted scene
up 10px, thus exposing an "invalidate d" 10px area at the bottom. I can
draw this new 10px portion just fine, but... how do I perform this
"shift" of the previously painted area? When I used to rely on
autoscroll to invalidate for me, I only had to worry about painting the
newly invalidated area and the "shift" happened automatically (and
smoothly) and now without the benefit of autoscroll I want to reproduce
that manually.