How to use canvas content as a bitmap?

Question

I'm writing a paint application in WPF, and when I want make color picker or fill tool i get a problem. I dont know how to use canvas content as bitmap, the only one solution I invent is save it, and open as bitmap then I can easy operate on pixels to get and sets pixels, but I want do it in another way. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you're looking for converting your canvas UIElement to a BitmapSource so that you can manipulate it then you can take a look at this post on MSDN MSDN .

Here is the helper function to get the BitmapSource from your canvas:

public static BitmapSource CreateBitmapSourceFromVisual(
    Double width,
    Double height,
    Visual visualToRender,
    Boolean undoTransformation)
{
    if (visualToRender == null)
    {
        return null;
    }
    RenderTargetBitmap bmp = new RenderTargetBitmap((Int32)Math.Ceiling(width),                                                        (Int32)Math.Ceiling(height), 96,96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);

    if (undoTransformation)
    {
        DrawingVisual dv = new DrawingVisual();
        using (DrawingContext dc = dv.RenderOpen())
        {
            VisualBrush vb = new VisualBrush(visualToRender);
            dc.DrawRectangle(vb, null, new Rect(new Point(), new Size(width, height)));
        }
        bmp.Render(dv);
    }
    else
    {
        bmp.Render(visualToRender);
    }
  return bmp;
}

I didn't get what do want to say by a color picker or fill tool problem, so I can't help you with that. Good luck!