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Cropping or Clipping in WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

This article demonstrates how to implement clipping feature in WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation) such as a Rectangle and an Image.

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The Clip property of an element (defined in the UIElement class) is used to clip a region and represents the geometry that defines the content of an element.

The Clip property takes a Geometry type that can be a line, rectangle, ellipse, or group geometry.

The following XAML code snippet uses an Image object to display an image.

<Image Source="Raj 059.JPG"

Width="300"

Height="300">           

      </Image>

The output looks like Figure 1.


Figure 1

The XAML code in Listing 1 sets the Image.Clip property to an EllipseGeometry and sets the RadiusX, RadiusY, and Center properties of the geometry. 

<Image Source="Raj 059.JPG" Width="300" Height="300">

            <Image.Clip>

                <EllipseGeometry

                    RadiusX="100"

                      RadiusY="100"

                        Center="120,120"/>

            </Image.Clip>

</Image>

 

The new output looks like Figure 2.

Figure 2. A clipped image

Since the Clip property is defined in the UIElement, it can be applied to any element. For example, the following code generates a rectangle looks like Figure 3.

 

<Rectangle Width="300" Height="200"   

Stroke="Red"

StrokeThickness="4"   

Fill="Green">           

</Rectangle>

 

Figure 3. A rectangle

 

 

Now we can apply clipping on the rectangle and the new output looks like Figure 4 with the following code.

 

<Rectangle Width="300" Height="200" 

 Stroke="Red"

       StrokeThickness="4"   

 Fill="Green">

       <Rectangle.Clip>

                <EllipseGeometry  

                    RadiusX="150" 

                    RadiusY="100" 

                    Center="150,100"/>

       </Rectangle.Clip>

 </Rectangle>

 

Figure 2. A clipped rectangle

For more information download attached application.

 

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Raj Kumar

Raj Kumar is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Software Engineer with lots of hands on experience using ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, AJAX, MVC, C#, Visual Basic .NET, SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle, WPF, WCF, XAML and Silverlight. He has over 6 years of IT experience working most on Microsoft technologies. He holds Master's degree in Computer Science. When he is not writing code, he likes to write articles and play cricket.

Reach him at raj2511984@gmail.com 

 

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