Re: Drawing a circular gradient

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From: Frank Hileman (frankhil_at_no.spamming.prodigesoftware.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:33:52 -0700

There is no built-in way to do that in GDI+. The closest you can get is to
break your path into multiple segments (arcs work), and draw each with a
linear gradient, changing the start and end color a bit each time.

Regards,
Frank Hileman

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"abhishek ghuwalewala" <abhishekg.nospam@nospam.mail.com> wrote in message
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> I want to draw a gradient, much like the gradient drawn by a linear
gradient
> brush, along a circular path. I have experimented with the
> PathGradientBrush, but I don't think it does what I want. Basically, I
want
> to be able to specify 2 colors and have the gradient drawn like in the
> image.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Abhishek
>
>
>

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