C# / *.NET: Resize Bitmap

[ShadowLocke]

I have a small program that resizes a bitmap according to mouse location. (see me talking to myself in this forum: http://bytes.com/forum/thread795956.ht ml)

So every time the mouse moves it resizes the bitmap.

Any ideas on what would be the fastest way to resize a bitmap? (Im not looking for quality, just speed)

[Plater]

The Image(or is just Bitmap) object has a like MakeThumbnail function that just takes in a new size and returns a resized version of the image.

[ShadowLocke]

Are you refering to "Image.GetThumb nailImage"?

I have just tried this, it did not appear to speed things up. Although, Im starting to think the resize may not be whats causing my slow down.

[Plater]

What if, you take a Picturebox control and set the background image property to your image. Then set the (can't think of it's name) property to "Stretch" (as opposed to "center" or etc)
Then change the actual size of the picturebox control with the mouse, maybe that will work faster?

[ShadowLocke]

Actually I narrowed down my problem to "Graphics.DrawI con()" I was thinking the resize was taking up the time, but after changing it up and using "Graphics.DrawI mage()" instead it drew a great deal faster.

This came with flicker...doubl e buffer ftw.