Re: Gradient Color for Caption Bar

[Shachar Shemesh]

Mike McCormack wrote:
> William Poetra Yoga H wrote:
> > Use GdiGradientFill (not GradientFill) to implement gradient caption 
> > bar (for now).
>
> GradientFill is pretty slow, as it files the rectangle line by line. 
> I'm not sure how much this is going to slow down a normal application. 
> It used to draw pixel by pixel, and that was a very noticable 
> slowdown... line by line is much faster than that, but it still may 
> cause a slowdown in some circumstances.
>
> Anybody have any ideas about how to speed up GradientFill?

How many colors are typically drawn across a single bar? If this number 
is significantly less than the number of vertical lines, you can 
precalculate the width of each color bar, and draw a series of boxes.
> Mike

Shachar