programming Are there any Fade in/ Fade out effects for pictureboxes in C#?

[Shammikit]

i have gone through the internet a lot, but i have failed to find any solution for this. after 5 seconds i want to fade out a image. how can i achieve this?

[Dobbsjr]

Are you using WinForms or WPF? 

[Shammikit]

17 minutes ago, Dobbsjr said:

Are you using WinForms or WPF? 

forgot to mention. im using winforms

[Dobbsjr]

3 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

forgot to mention. im using winforms

WinForms doesn't have any support for animations, it's usually better to use WPF if you want to have animations or such thing as it provide animation classes and smooth animating objects. Anyways, you'll have to make your own function in WinForms for fading. You could use a Color Matrix, like in this example from MSDN, with a timer.  

[Nuluvius]

8 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

forgot to mention. im using winforms

You are just not listening to the advice that's already been given to you countless times already. You are messing around in a deprecating technology that was simply never really equipped to support all of this kind of stuff without significant work; work that is completely pointless given that:

1. WinForms is deprecating
2. There are already newer technologies that do support this sort of thing such as WPF

Continually making new threads asking the same kind of questions will not inspire people to tell you anything different!

[Dobbsjr]

3 minutes ago, Nuluvius said:

You are just not listening to the advice that's already been given to you countless times already. You are messing around in a deprecating technology that was simply never really equipped to support all of this kind of stuff without significant work; work that is completely pointless given that:

1. WinForms is deprecating
2. There are already newer technologies that do support this sort of thing such as WPF

Continually making new threads asking the same kind of questions will not inspire people to tell you anything different!

While everything you said is true, WinForms still has it's advantages. It's faster and easier for beginners to learn. Maybe he just needs to hack something together quick. I'm not trying to start an argument about WinForms vs WPF, nor do I disagree with your post. Just wanted to point that out.  

[Shammikit]

4 minutes ago, Nuluvius said:

You are just not listening to the advice that's already been given to you countless times already. You are messing around in a deprecating technology that was simply never really equipped to support all of this kind of stuff without significant work; work that is completely pointless given that:

1. WinForms is deprecating
2. There are already newer technologies that do support this sort of thing such as WPF

Continually making new threads asking the same kind of questions will not inspire people to tell you anything different!

im sorry but i have only been taught about winforms. thats why im messing around trying to get myself prepared for the tests thats coming at the end of the year.

[zwirek2201]

Once again, go WPF, please. I cannot bear the thought that you are using WinForms  I swear, if you have any problems with WPF, I'll help you with it, but just leave WinForms for business applications with no creativity.

[Nuluvius]

3 hours ago, Dobbsjr said:

While everything you said is true, WinForms still has it's advantages. It's faster and easier for beginners to learn. Maybe he just needs to hack something together quick. I'm not trying to start an argument about WinForms vs WPF, nor do I disagree with your post. Just wanted to point that out.  

That's fine if you'd like to dress it up that way but I'd still be well inclined to maintain that it's a piss poor excuse in general. Be that a failing of effort or ability on the part of the individual or (and what has historically been the case) a failing on the part of academia to keep up with and promote current industry relevant technologies and best practices.

 

No I'm afraid that you'll not find me so forgiving.

2 hours ago, zwirek2201 said:

Once again, go WPF, please.

Indeed.

[madknight3]

5 hours ago, Shammikit said:

im sorry but i have only been taught about winforms. thats why im messing around trying to get myself prepared for the tests thats coming at the end of the year.

Sounds like this is for school, in which case he doesn't have a choice and has to use WinForms.

 

6 hours ago, Shammikit said:

i have gone through the internet a lot, but i have failed to find any solution for this. after 5 seconds i want to fade out a image. how can i achieve this?

Here's an example that shows you how you can fade an image in a picturebox

 

StackOverflow: Fading out an image with transparency in WinForms UI (.NET3.5)

[DXMember]

6 hours ago, Shammikit said:

forgot to mention. im using winforms

try dynamic opacity in a loop in a new thread

[Nuluvius]

On 02/08/2017 at 8:37 PM, madknight3 said:

Sounds like this is for school, in which case he doesn't have a choice and has to use WinForms.

As one ascends the academic echelons there's supposed to be a degree of freedom and Independence permitted and even encouraged. Though it's entirely up to the individual to capitalise upon the opportunity. Therefore I still find this to be a rather weak supposition.

[DXMember]

10 hours ago, Erik Sieghart said:

I don't like this idea at all. You shouldn't need multi-threading for the sake of an animation.

you might not need it for animation, but it's a good enough reason to start learning how to do threading