Picturebox property question - crucial

[ianpaisley]

I'm having difficulty with a very important part of my project. If there's no way around it I'd like to give whoever wrote VB6 a piece of my mind. There's no reason why it should happen.

It's to do with the Autoredraw property of the picturebox.

I have some command buttons and a picturebox on my form. Some command buttons bring up another form which, when they cover the picturebox, erase it's contents. So I set the 'Autoredraw' property to True. Problem solved for a while.

But the contents of the Picturebox can change at run time.

For example:

'print a random number between 0 and 10 in the picturebox
'every time command button is clicked, a number is printed
'at the specified coordinates
Private Sub Command1_Click()
'refresh to erase the previous number
Picture1.Refresh
Picture1.CurrentX = 10
Picture1.CurrentY = 10
Picture1.Print Int(Rnd * 10)
End Sub


I'm in a dilemma: If Autoredraw of the Picturebox is set to 'True', the contents of the Picturbox don't erase at all - one random number prints over the next, when the button is pressed. I thought the Refresh command would get rid of this, but it doesn't.

And if I set Autoredraw to 'False', the previous random number disappears (as it should) but everything disappears when a form is placed over it.

Is this some sort of sick joke? Is there a way to get rid of the previous random number - rather than print directly on top of it, and yet keep contents in the picture box when a form is moved on top of it?

Thanks!

Use the Cls method.

Picture1.Cls

[ianpaisley]

Megatron, thanks a lot. Never heard of that method.

It looks like I can replace all my Picture1.Refresh stuff, too.