Permanent Rectangle on Form.

27 Sep 2006 12:36 PM

T Clancey

Hi, I have some code that will draw a rectangle on my form, does what I
need, but it's simple code that just draws, therefore menus and other items
clear the drawing.

Has anyone got a way to draw the rectangle permantently? I need to change
the size of the rectangle from time to time so I can't load an image.

Cheers,
Tull.

27 Sep 2006 12:44 PM

Robinson

"T Clancey" <t***@idcodeware.co.uk> wrote in message
news:SaudnRlQkYMF7YfYnZ2dnUVZ8tOdnZ2d@bt.com...
> Hi, I have some code that will draw a rectangle on my form, does what I
> need, but it's simple code that just draws, therefore menus and other
> items clear the drawing.
>
> Has anyone got a way to draw the rectangle permantently? I need to change
> the size of the rectangle from time to time so I can't load an image.
>
> Cheers,
> Tull.

Where are you doing the drawing? If you are handling a Paint method, it
should automagically redraw. If you are drawing elsewhere it will be
overwritten.

27 Sep 2006 1:48 PM

Miro

If its just a box you need...
Cant you put an Image box on the form, give it a borderstyle, and the same
background color as your form?
and put ur objects on top?
Its like a fake box.

Or use an image and set the image.stretch to true. Change the size during
ur code.

I miss the "line" draw feature in the old vb's.

Miro

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"T Clancey" <t***@idcodeware.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi, I have some code that will draw a rectangle on my form, does what I
> need, but it's simple code that just draws, therefore menus and other
> items clear the drawing.
>
> Has anyone got a way to draw the rectangle permantently? I need to change
> the size of the rectangle from time to time so I can't load an image.
>
> Cheers,
> Tull.
>

28 Sep 2006 10:54 AM

Stuart Nathan

create a bitmap and draw on it, and then use bitmap as backgroundimage

28 Sep 2006 3:33 PM

T Clancey

Thanks to everyone for their input, I founds that creating a picture box,
sizing it as required, then drawing the labels on the box did just what I
need.

There is another problem, which I'll put in a new post!

Thanks again,
Tull.

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> create a bitmap and draw on it, and then use bitmap as backgroundimage
>