Drawstring string disappears when Button on Form

[albundy]

Hi,

I'm drawing a game board with GDI in VB2005. (it's like a gomoku board)
First i draw a background with FillRectangle, then I draw the grid with
DrawLine, then I draw some row and column letters with DrawString.
They are all in the Paint event of the Form.

Everything works fine, until i put some Buttons on the Form (not at runtime).
Then the column and row letters go behind the background rectangle (so they can't be seen ), when the form is shown. The grid remains on top of the background rectangle.

I would like the letters to stay on top of the other graphics.
Thanks in advance for the help

 

[jmcilhinney]

Can you show us your Paint event handler?

 

[albundy]

Hi,
meanwhile i found a solution to my problem, with help of this thread:

http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/graphics-gdi/33247-keeping-graphics-form.html

my original code was :

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    End Sub
    Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
        ' grid back---------------------------------------------
        Dim w As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics
        w.FillRectangle(Brushes.Beige, 20, 20, 20 + 390, 20 + 390)
        w.Dispose()


        ' letters-----------------------------------------------
        Dim fontObj As Font
        fontObj = New System.Drawing.Font("Times", 10, FontStyle.Bold)
        Dim stringFormat As New StringFormat()
        stringFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far
        'stringFormat.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Near
        Dim i As Integer
        Dim f As Integer
        Dim mystring1 = New String() {"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T"}
        Dim mystring2 = New String() {"19", "18", "17", "16", "15", "14", "13", "12", "11", "10", "9", "8", "7", "6", "5", "4", "3", "2", "1"}
        For i = 0 To 18
            e.Graphics.DrawString(mystring1(i), fontObj, Brushes.Chocolate, 45 + i * 20, 410)
        Next
        For f = 0 To 18
            e.Graphics.DrawString(mystring2(f), fontObj, Brushes.Chocolate, 40, 35 + f * 20, stringFormat)
        Next
    End Sub
    'Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)

    'End Sub
End Class

(when i put a button on the form, or resized it, the letters disappeared, i guess a new rectangle was drawn on top of all graphics, but no new letters?)
then i noticed, i have two Graphics objects "w", and "e"
and changed it like this:

' grid back---------------------------------------------
        e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Beige, 20, 20, 20 + 390, 20 + 390)

now it works fine, but i don't understand why in the first version only the rectangle is redrawn on form resize (or putting a button on the form)