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3D Programming for Windows®
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3D Programming for Windows®

by Charles Petzold
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
13h 39m
English
Microsoft Press
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Tile Brushes

The three remaining brush classes are ImageBrush, DrawingBrush, and VisualBrush. In theory, these brushes have quite a bit of overlapping functionality, but in most real-life applications you'll probably use them for these specific purposes:

  • ImageBrush for brushes based on bitmaps

  • DrawingBrush for brushes based on vector drawings

  • VisualBrush for brushes based on visual objects, including user-interface elements and controls

ImageBrush defines only one property: The ImageSource property is of type ImageSource, which is the abstract class from which BitmapSource and DrawingImage descend. BitmapSource is the abstract class from which all the bitmap classes descend.

DrawingBrush also defines just one property: The Drawing property, which is ...

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