I'm determining the rectangular area in an image and showing it to the user in a PictureBox.
Since the image can sometimes be very large, I'm using a PictureBox with its SizeMode
set to Zoom
.
I'm using the following code to translate the Rectangle (X, Y) coordinates:
public Point TranslateZoomMousePosition(Point coordinates)
{
// test to make sure our image is not null
if (pictureBox5.Image == null) return coordinates;
// Make sure our control width and height are not 0 and our
// image width and height are not 0
if (pictureBox5.Width == 0 || pictureBox5.Height == 0 || pictureBox5.Image.Width == 0 || pictureBox5.Image.Height == 0) return coordinates;
// This is the one that gets a little tricky. Essentially, need to check
// the aspect ratio of the image to the aspect ratio of the control
// to determine how it is being rendered
float imageAspect = (float)pictureBox5.Image.Width / pictureBox5.Image.Height;
float controlAspect = (float)pictureBox5.Width / pictureBox5.Height;
float newX = coordinates.X;
float newY = coordinates.Y;
if (imageAspect > controlAspect)
{
// This means that we are limited by width,
// meaning the image fills up the entire control from left to right
float ratioWidth = (float)pictureBox5.Image.Width / pictureBox5.Width;
newX *= ratioWidth;
float scale = (float)pictureBox5.Width / pictureBox5.Image.Width;
float displayHeight = scale * pictureBox5.Image.Height;
float diffHeight = pictureBox5.Height - displayHeight;
diffHeight /= 2;
newY -= diffHeight;
newY /= scale;
}
else
{
// This means that we are limited by height,
// meaning the image fills up the entire control from top to bottom
float ratioHeight = (float)pictureBox5.Image.Height / pictureBox5.Height;
newY *= ratioHeight;
float scale = (float)pictureBox5.Height / pictureBox5.Image.Height;
float displayWidth = scale * pictureBox5.Image.Width;
float diffWidth = pictureBox5.Width - displayWidth;
diffWidth /= 2;
newX -= diffWidth;
newX /= scale;
}
return new Point((int)newX, (int)newY);
}
Adding a frame control at the determined position:
pictureBox5.Controls.Clear();
var c = new FrameControl();
c.Size = new Size(myrect.Width, myrect.Height);
c.Location=TranslateZoomMousePosition(newPoint(myrect.Location.X,myrect.Location.Y));
pictureBox5.Controls.Add(c);
But the determined frame/rectangle location is not correct.
What am I i doing wrong?
Update: I'm trying to translate a Rectangle on an image to a Frame Control on a PictureBox using similar code
public Rectangle GetRectangeOnPictureBox(PictureBox p, Rectangle selectionRect,Bitmap bit)
{
var method = typeof(PictureBox).GetMethod("ImageRectangleFromSizeMode",
System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance);
var imageRect = (Rectangle)method.Invoke(p, new object[] { p.SizeMode });
if (p.Image == null)
return selectionRect;
int cx = bit.Width / imageRect.Width;
int cy = bit.Height / imageRect.Height;
Rectangle trsRectangle = new Rectangle(selectionRect.X * cx, selectionRect.Y * cy, selectionRect.Width * cx, selectionRect.Height * cy);
trsRectangle.Offset(imageRect.X, imageRect.Y);
return trsRectangle;
}
This produces invalid result.Please advice
You can translate selected rectangle on the picture box to the rectangle on image this way:
public RectangleF GetRectangeOnImage(PictureBox p, Rectangle selectionRect)
{
var method = typeof(PictureBox).GetMethod("ImageRectangleFromSizeMode",
System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance);
var imageRect = (Rectangle)method.Invoke(p, new object[] { p.SizeMode });
if (p.Image == null)
return selectionRect;
var cx = (float)p.Image.Width / (float)imageRect.Width;
var cy = (float)p.Image.Height / (float)imageRect.Height;
var r2 = Rectangle.Intersect(imageRect, selectionRect);
r2.Offset(-imageRect.X, -imageRect.Y);
return new RectangleF(r2.X * cx, r2.Y * cy, r2.Width * cx, r2.Height * cy);
}
Note: You can find ImageRectangleFromSizeMode
method source code here and use it as write such method as part of your application code.
Example - Crop Image of PictureBox having SizeMode = Zoom
As an example, the following code will crop the given rectangle of the picture box 1 and will set the result as image of picture box 2:
var selectedRectangle = new Rectangle(7, 30, 50, 40);
var result = GetRectangeOnImage(pictureBox1, selectedRectangle);
using (var bm = new Bitmap((int)result.Width, (int)result.Height))
{
using (var g = Graphics.FromImage(bm))
g.DrawImage(pictureBox1.Image, 0, 0, result, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
pictureBox2.Image = (Image)bm.Clone();
}
Here is the input image:
And this is the result: